Those first stamps made it easier than ever to communicate, but early on people weren't quite sure how to use them.
The United States Postal Service issued its first-ever postage stamps on this day in history, July 1, 1847. The first postage stamps produced by the United States Postal Service (USPS) were sold in ...
Chief curator of philately at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum Daniel Piazza talks about the significance of the first stamps issued by the... ‘Snapshots’ of history: How the first stamps ...