Vintage cent postage envelope

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Mail order patterns are a too often overlooked treasure trove, not just for their adorable designs but the social history and connection to the past that comes from knowing a little bit more than usual about the original seamstress. In addition, mail order sewing patterns tended to be available in a wider range of sizes. Which is something my hairdresser did for me for most of my teenage years. Suffice to say, businesses who supported the NRA whether willingly or for fear of public boycott put the blue eagle emblem on their packages.

The history of postal service of the United States began with the delivery of stampless letters , whose cost was borne by the receiving person, later also encompassed pre-paid letters carried by private mail carriers and provisional post offices , and culminated in a system of universal prepayment that required all letters to bear nationally issued adhesive postage stamps. In the earliest days, ship captains arriving in port with stampless mail would advertise in the local newspaper names of those having mail and for them to come collect and pay for it, if not already paid for by the sender. Postal delivery in the United States was a matter of haphazard local organization until after the Revolutionary War , when eventually a national postal system was established.

A piece of postal stationery is a stationery item, such as a stamped envelope , letter sheet , postal card , lettercard , aerogram or wrapper , with an imprinted stamp or inscription indicating that a specific rate of postage or related service has been prepaid. In general, postal stationery is handled similarly to postage stamps; sold from post offices either at the face value of the printed postage or, more likely, with a surcharge to cover the additional cost of the stationery. Postal stationery can be overprinted by the government or, occasionally, by a private overprint.