Postage stamp stamps did not need to show the issuing country, so no country name was included on them. The UK remains the only country to omit its name on postage stamps, using the reigning monarch’s head as country identification. Following the introduction of the postage stamp in the UK, prepaid postage considerably increased the number of letters mailed. Before 1839, the number of letters sent in the UK was typically 76 million. By 1850 this increased five-fold to 350 million, continuing to grow rapidly until the end of the 20th century when newer methods of indicating the payment of postage reduced
Postage stamps and postal history of Zimbabwe until 1978. No stamps were issued in 1979 during the Rhodesia-Zimbabwe period. The first stamps with the name Zimbabwe were issued on 18 April 1980, they were a set of definitives and featured the same designs as the previous definitive stamps of Rhodesia. Postage stamps and postal history of Zimbabwe This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe, formerly Southern Rhodesia is a landlocked country located in the southern part of Africa between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia to the