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In the United States in November 2012, the purchase price was $2.20 [6] USD; however, the US Postal Service discontinued sales of IRCs on 27 January 2013 due to declining demand. [7] Britain's Royal Mail also stopped selling IRCs on 31 December 2011, citing minimal sales and claiming that the average post office sold less than one IRC per year.
This is a list of British postage stamps issued by the Royal Mail postal service of the United Kingdom, normally referred to in philatelic circles as Great Britain.This list should be consistent with printed publications, [1] [2] and cite sources of any deviation (e.g., magazine issue listing newly found variations).
Following the occupation of the Philippines by the United States as a result of the Spanish–American War, the American military government issued regular stamps overprinted with the word "Philippines", for postal purposes. Stamps issued on June 30, 1899, were used up to August 1906, when the American civil government that supplanted the ...
8 stamps: 1st class ×4: Queen II, Sheer Heart Attack, A Night at the Opera, News of the World, £1.63 ×4: The Game, Greatest Hits, The Works and Innuendo. [11] Miniature Sheet: 5 stamps: 1st class ×3: Queen 1974, Magic Tour, 1986, Hyde Park Concert, 1976, £1.63 ×2: A Night at the Opera Tour, 1975 and Magic Tour, 1986. [12] Royal Mail Group ...
The United Kingdom's Royal Mail, a relative newcomer to semi-postals, issued its first stamp of this type in 1975 with a 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 p denomination and a premium of 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 p for charitable causes making the total cost 6p, with funds going to health and handicap charities.
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Henry VIII created the Royal Mail in 1516, appointing Brian Tuke as "Master of the Postes", while Elizabeth I appointed Thomas Randolph as "Chief Postmaster". Under Thomas Witherings, chief postmaster under Charles I, the Royal Mail was made available to the public (1635), [4] with a regular system of post roads, houses, and staff. From this ...
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