Funny Holidays - Postage Stamp Birthday

The delivery of letters in Ancient Greece and Rome was carried out by horse and foot messengers, tabellarii, who were in the service of the emperor Only patricians, officials and clergy used the state mail Centuries later, ordinary people became able to send parcels, letters and postcards Stamps are used to pay for mail delivery services One of them, depicting the profile of Queen Elizabeth on a dark background, Black penny, went on sale in London on May 1, 1840 The date became the reason for the establishment of the Birthday of the postage stamp In honor of this event, Great Britain received a special privilege It, unlike other states, is exempt from the obligation to indicate the name of the issuing country on stamps as required by the Universal Postal Union In 1835, Rowland Hill proposed to unify fees for sending correspondence throughout Great Britain 5 years later, Parliament adopted his project, setting a fee of 1 pence for a black postal sticker and 2 pence for a blue one To commemorate this, a stamp was issued for Hill's 200th birthday in 1995 with his portrait in front of the Black penny The idea to celebrate the stamp's birthday belongs to the famous German philatelist Hans von Rudolphi He voiced his proposal at a meeting of the Bundestag in 1934 and met with support among deputies Postage signs were actively used to promote the ideas of the Third Reich In the first decades since the establishment of the solemn day, the stamp was celebrated by philatelists from Germany, Austria, Luxembourg and France Collectors from Great Britain and its colonies began celebrating the holiday in the mid-1970s In the USSR, Postage Stamp and Collector's Day was not particularly popular, although the countries of the socialist bloc annually issued new stamps of different denominations for the solemn date Since 1966, the Philately magazine has been published in the Soviet Union The publication contained information about the history of postal business, stamped envelopes, international exhibitions, foreign stamps and collectibles In the 1990s, postal departments around the world began to use the holiday to popularize philately among young people Thus, in France, characters from famous comic books began to be depicted on stamps In the Russian Federation, a mobile application has been created for this purpose - the game "Collector" In the Russian Empire, the first “wafers with a design in an approved form” began to be glued onto “ordinary simple envelopes” 15 years after the introduction of this practice in Great Britain The corresponding circular was issued by the Postal Department on January 1, 1857 Connoisseurs consider this date to be the birthday of the Russian stamp By May 1, according to tradition, commemorative postage signs and miniatures are issued They depict historical figures, significant events of the past and present In honor of the holiday, thematic exhibitions and festivals are held, special cancellations and other promotions are carried out In the age of the Internet, with the advent of e-mail, stamps began to be printed mainly for philatelists But paper items are still in demand, so so far not a single letter or postcard is complete without the coveted color sticker