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 Mongolia Postage stamps and postal history of Mongolia This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Mongolia. Mongolia is a landlocked country in East and Central Asia. It is bordered by Russia to the north and the People's Republic of China to the south, east and west. Ulaanbaatar is the capital and largest city. The first stamps used in Mongolia were those of Russia from 1858 who operated a number of post offices in the country. The first stamps of Mongolia were issued in August 1924 depicting the Vajra, a scepter that is a religious symbol in