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A postage stamp is a small piece of paper issued by a post office, postal administration, or other authorized vendors to customers who pay postage.
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- James Chalmers organized petitions "for a low and uniform rate of postage".
- This suggests that either Chalmers had previously read Hill's booklet and was merely elaborating Hill's idea, or he had independently developed the idea of the modern postage stamp.
- Neither article mentioned "a bit of paper just large enough to bear the stamp", so Chalmers could not have known that Hill had made such a proposal.
- but whether he obtained a copy of Hill's booklet or simply read about it in one or both of the two detailed accounts (25 March 1837 and 20 December 1837) published in The Times is unknown.
- Since Chalmers used the same postage denominations that Hill had proposed in February 1837, it is clear that he was aware of Hill's proposals,
- Chalmers' original document is now in the United Kingdom's National Postal Museum.
- In this approximately 800-word document concerning methods of indicating that postage had been paid on mail he states:
"Therefore, of Mr Hill's plan of a uniform rate of postage... I conceive that the most simple and economical mode... would be by Slips... in the hope that Mr Hill's plan may soon be carried into operation I would suggest that sheets of Stamped Slips should be prepared... then be rubbed over on the back with a strong solution of gum...".
- The first independent evidence for Chalmers' claim is an essay, dated 8 February 1838 and received by the Post Office on 17 February 1838, in which he proposed adhesive postage stamps to the General Post Office.
- Nevertheless until he died in 1891, Patrick Chalmers campaigned to have his father recognized as the inventor of the postage stamp.
- In the 1881 book The Penny Postage Scheme of 1837, Scotsman Patrick Chalmers claimed that his father, James Chalmers, published an essay in August 1834 describing and advocating a postage stamp, but submitted no evidence of the essay's existence.
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- Rowland Hill and the reforms he introduced to the United Kingdom postal system appear on several of its commemorative stamps.
- Hill's brother Edwin invented a prototype envelope-making machine that folded paper into envelopes quickly enough to match the pace of the growing demand for postage stamps.
- With the new policy of charging by weight, using envelopes for mailing documents became the norm.
- Hill's ideas for postage stamps and charging paid-postage based on weight soon took hold, and were adopted in many countries throughout the world.
- Hansard records that on 15 December 1837, Benjamin Hawes asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer "whether it was the intention of the Government to give effect to the recommendation of the Commissioners of the Post-office, contained in their ninth report relating to the reduction of the rates of postage, and the issuing of penny stamps?"
- incorporating the supplement given to the Chancellor and statements he made to the commission, was published and made available to the general public.
- Shortly afterward, Hill's revision of the booklet, dated 22 February 1837, containing some 28,000 words,
- This would eventually become the first unambiguous description of a modern adhesive postage stamp (though the term "postage stamp" originated at later date).
- Hill read from the letter he wrote to the Chancellor that included a statement saying that the notation of paid postage could be created... by using a bit of paper just large enough to bear the stamp, and covered at the back with a glutinous wash..."
- Summoned to give evidence before the Commission for Post Office Enquiry on 13 February 1837,
- which Hill duly produced and submitted on 28 January 1837.
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- After a detailed study, on 4 January 1837 Hill submitted a pamphlet entitled Post Office Reform: Its Importance and Practicability to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Thomas Spring Rice, which was marked "private and confidential", and not released to the general public.
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- In 1836, Robert Wallace, a Member of (British) Parliament, gave Sir Rowland Hill numerous books and documents about the postal service,
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- In 1835, the civil servant Lovrenc Košir from Ljubljana in Austria-Hungary (now Slovenia), suggested the use of "artificially affixed postal tax stamps" using "gepresste Papieroblate" ("pressed paper wafers"),
- it is considered by many historians to be the world's first postage stamp.
- Though this "stamp" was applied to the letter or parcel itself, rather than to a separate piece of paper,
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- Confirmation of paid postage was indicated by the use of a hand *stamp* to frank the mailed item.
- The LPP was a mail system that delivered letters and small parcels inside the city of London for the sum of one penny.
- In 1680, William Dockwra, an English merchant in London, and his partner Robert Murray established the London Penny Post.
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(0 a) maybe consider adding some information about yourself and a pfp to your profile before you start.
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- so several different men have received credit for inventing the postage stamp.
- Throughout modern history numerous methods were used to indicate that postage had been paid on a mailed item,
- Throughout modern history numerous methods were used to indicate that postage had been paid on a mailed item,
- the monarch's image signifies the United Kingdom as the country of origin.
- Thus the United Kingdom remains the only country in the world to omit its name on postage stamps;