Stamps Info

• Great Britain was the first country in the world to introduce postage stamps.

• Great Britain, to date, has not issued a single airmail stamp.

• Brazil introduced postage stamps before any other country in North and South America.

• The first woman who was featured on an USA stamp was Queen Isabella and not Martha Washington.

• Benjamin Franklin was the first Post Master General of both United States and Canada.

• Charles Lindbergh, famous for his first solo trans-Atlantic flight, is the only American who was mentioned on an USA stamp during his life time.
  

• A part of the face value of a semi-postal stamp goes to a charitable organization and the balance is postage.

• Many early postage stamps did not have perforations and they did not have gum on their back.

• Some postage stamps bear watermarks and they were originally introduced as a counterfeit deterrent

• A person who collects postcards is known as a deltiologist.