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  2. New York Postmaster's Provisional - Wikipedia

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    The New York Postmaster's Provisional is, as its designation implies, a postage stamp provided by the New York Post Office to facilitate the prepayment of mail at a time when the United States had not yet issued postage stamps for national use. Placed on sale on July 14, 1845, this was the nation's first provisional stamp to be issued by a ...

  3. United States postmasters' provisional stamps - Wikipedia

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    United States postmasters' provisional stamps. In the Act of March 3, 1845, the United States Congress standardized postal rates throughout the nation at 5¢ for a normal-weight letter transported up to 300 miles and 10¢ for a letter transported between 300 and 3,000 miles, with these rates to take effect on July 1, 1845. [1]

  4. Postage stamps and postal history of the United States

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    It would be private enterprise, however, that brought stamps to the U.S. On February 1, 1842, a new carrier service called "City Despatch Post" began operations in New York City, introducing the first adhesive postage stamp ever produced in the western hemisphere, which it required its clients to use for all mail.

  5. Presidents of the United States on U.S. postage stamps

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    In 1845, the New York Postmaster issued a provisional stamp for local use which offered a far more elegant image of Washington, engraved by the firm of Rawdon, Wright and Hatch (the same company that, two years later, would produce the first National U.S. postage stamps).

  6. Provisional stamp - Wikipedia

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    Provisional stamp issued in St. Louis, 1845. A subcategory, postmasters' provisionals, of particular importance in United States philately, comprises stamps that were issued by local postmasters in nations that had not yet begun to issue stamps for countrywide use. Between 1845, when the United States standardardized national postage rates, and ...

  7. Postage is going up again. You should care, even if you don’t ...

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    Postage stamps, though, took quite awhile longer to make an appearance. “Alexander M. Greig’s City Despatch Post, a private New York City carrier, issued the first adhesive stamps in the ...

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