Postage stamps and postal history of the United States a precondition for their issue by a nation was the establishment of standardized rates for delivery throughout the country. If postal fees were to remain (as they were in many lands) a patchwork of many different jurisdictional rates, the use of stamps would only produce limited gains in efficiency, for postal clerks would still have to spend time calculating the rates on many letters: only then would senders know how much postage to put on them. The introduction of postage stamps in the UK in May 1840 was received with great interest in the United States (and around the world).
Postage stamps and postal history of Thailand only series to refer to each of the old currency units; subsequent issues had their values denominated in "att". The one-"fueang" stamp never entered circulation as they were not delivered in time for the postal service's opening. 500,000 stamps were printed for each face value. Postage stamps and postal history of Thailand This is a survey of the postal history and postage stamps of Thailand. Before Siam issued its first stamp, there was a limited mail service, mainly for the royal family. Domestic mail travelled by messengers while international mail travelled by steamboat to post offices in nearby countries, such