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 stamps of the Soviet Union sell more stamps in the international market. By targeting stamps for sales abroad, the Soviet government reckoned on hard currency. Over the years, there was a steady increase in the number of different stamps issued annually by the USSR. Stamp denominations continued including international postage rates. For instance, most new issues during 1939 and 1940 had face values between 10 and 30 kopecks, i.e. more than those for standard internal postage. One of the important topics represented on the USSR stamps was the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. It was usually done in two ways: Vladimir Lenin was pictured