Postage stamps and postal history of British Columbia Postage stamps and postal history of British Columbia The postage stamps and postal history of British Columbia started in 1860 with the issue of a single brownish-rose stamp depicting Queen Victoria in profile and denominated as 2½ pence. It was issued jointly by Vancouver Island and British Columbia as each colony had insufficient postal trade to justify printing separate stamps. In 1862, Vancouver Island adopted decimal currency and sold the stamp for 5 cents, before issuing its own 5 and 10 cent stamps in September 1865. Meanwhile, British Columbia had increased the postal rate to 3 pence but continued to
Postage stamp problem + 1, etc.), but to get 13 cents one must use at least four stamps. Mathematically, the problem can be formulated as follows: This problem can be solved by brute force search or backtracking with maximum time proportional to |"V" |, where |"V" | is the number of distinct stamp values allowed. Therefore, if the capacity of the envelope "m" is fixed, it is a polynomial time problem. If the capacity "m" is arbitrary, the problem is known to be NP-hard. Postage stamp problem The postage stamp problem is a mathematical riddle that asks what is the smallest postage value