1. What are illegal stamps? Illegal stamps are postage stamp-like labels issued in the names of existing independent countries or territories, entities claiming to be independent, or completely fictitious entities.
3. Charity Stamps or Labels A charity stamp or charity label is an adhesive label usually resembling a postage stamp, sold by charities to raise funds. They are generally intended to be used on mail, as a way of advertising the sender's support of the charity's cause. Christmas...
4. India: Azad Hind Stamps In a series of meetings between the INA leaders and the Japanese in 1943, it was decided to cede the leadership of the IIL and the INA to Subhash Chandra Bose, since a number of the officers and troops who had returned to PoW camps, or had not volunt...
5. What is Expertization? Expertization is the process of authentication of an stamp or cover, usually of a sort that is collected, by an individual expert or a committee of experts.
7. Buying and Exchanging Postage Stamps Whenever you collect a stamp, always remember that, someday, it will become rare and will worth a lot of money. So handle your collected stamps well.
8. Largest Number of Post Offices The Indian Postal Service, with 155,333 post offices, is the most widely distributed post office system in the world.
9. Postage Prepayment in Estonia Postage prepayment by the "paid-in-cash" markings is not unusual during times of war and political upheaval in Estonia between 1918-1942.
10. Moving Post Offices A Moving Post Office is a type of mail train where the post is sorted en-route. This system is known as TPO (Travelling Post Office) in United Kingdom and RPO (Railway Post Office) in USA.
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