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A piece of postal stationery is a stationery item, such as an envelope
Envelope

An envelope is a packaging product, usually made of flat material such as paper or cardboard, and designed to contain a flat object, which in a postal-service context is usually a letter , card or bills....
, letter sheet
Letter sheet

In Philately terminology a Letter sheet, often written lettersheet, is nowadays an item of postal stationery issued by a postal authority....
, post card, lettercard, aérogramme
Aerogram

An Aerogram or Air Letter, also called an a?rogramme, is a thin lightweight piece of foldable and gummed paper for writing a letter for transit via airmail, in which the letter and envelope are one and the same....
 or wrapper, with an amount of postage preprinted on it. The preprinted stamp, or 'indicium', is usually at the rate required for a particular postal service, e.g., at the postcard rate for postcards, the domestic letter rate for letter sheets and envelopes, the registered letter rate for registered envelopes, etc.






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A piece of postal stationery is a stationery item, such as an envelope
Envelope

An envelope is a packaging product, usually made of flat material such as paper or cardboard, and designed to contain a flat object, which in a postal-service context is usually a letter , card or bills....
, letter sheet
Letter sheet

In Philately terminology a Letter sheet, often written lettersheet, is nowadays an item of postal stationery issued by a postal authority....
, post card, lettercard, aérogramme
Aerogram

An Aerogram or Air Letter, also called an a?rogramme, is a thin lightweight piece of foldable and gummed paper for writing a letter for transit via airmail, in which the letter and envelope are one and the same....
 or wrapper, with an amount of postage preprinted on it. The preprinted stamp, or 'indicium', is usually at the rate required for a particular postal service, e.g., at the postcard rate for postcards, the domestic letter rate for letter sheets and envelopes, the registered letter rate for registered envelopes, etc. In general, postal stationery is handled similarly to postage stamp
Postage stamp

A postage stamp is adhesive paper evidence of a fee paid for Mail services. Usually a small rectangle attached to an envelope, the stamp signifies the person sending it has fully or partly paid for delivery....
s; sold from post office
Post office

A post office is a facility authorized by a postal system for the posting, receipt, sorting, handling, transmission or delivery of mail. Post offices offer mail-related services such as post office boxes, postage and packaging supplies....
s either at the face value of the printed postage or with a surcharge to cover the additional cost of the stationery.

The envelope form may also be called a stamped envelope. In the United States, private post cards (without preprinted postage) are differentiated from postal cards, which are sold by the Postal Service.

Postal services of some countries also offer a form of letter sheet
Letter sheet

In Philately terminology a Letter sheet, often written lettersheet, is nowadays an item of postal stationery issued by a postal authority....
 called an aérogramme consisting of a blank sheet of paper with folding instructions and adhesive flaps that becomes its own envelope, and carries prepaid postage at either the international airmail letter rate or at a special lower aerogramme rate. Enclosures are not permitted in aerogrammes.

The first official postal stationery were the 1838 embossed letter sheets of New South Wales. These were followed by the Mulready stationery
Mulready stationery

Mulready stationery describes the postal stationery Letter sheet and pre-gummed envelopes that were introduced as part of the General Post Office postal reforms of 1840....
 that was issued by Britain
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the formal name and the state form of the United Kingdom from 1 January 1801 until 12 April 1927....
 at the same time as the Penny Black
Penny Black

The Penny Black, the world's first adhesive postage stamp of a public postal system, was issued by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on 1 May, 1840, for use from 6 May of that year....
 in 1840. Since then, most postal services have issued a steady stream of stationery alongside stamps; often the design of the stationery mimics the contemporaneous stamps, though with less variety and lower printing quality, due to the limitations of printing directly onto the envelope.

In emergency situations, postal stationery has been produced by handstamping envelopes with modified cancelling devices; many of the rare Confederate postmasters' provisionals are of this form. Postal stationery can also be overprinted
Overprint

This article concerns overprints on stamps and currency, for the use of the term in printing see OverprintingAn overprint is the addition of text to the face of a postage stamp after it has been printed ....
 publicly, or by a private overprint
Private overprint

Private overprints, in philately, are overprints , usually rubberstamp though occasionally applied by some other method, to postage stamps used by some person or entity other than a government or other official stamp-issuing entity....
.

Although the Scott catalog includes a section for United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 postal stationery, and many other country-specific stamp catalog
Stamp catalog

A stamp catalog is a catalog of postage stamp types. Although basically just a list of descriptions and prices, in practice the catalog is an essential tool of stamp collecting....
s describe the stationery of their respective countries, the 19-volume Higgins and Gage World Postal Stationery Catalogue is a main reference for stationery worldwide.

See also

  • Stationery
    Stationery

    File:Vanph?ngph?m-InsideStationeryShop03012009606.jpgFile:Vanph?ngph?m-OutsideStationeryShop11122008454.jpgStationery has historically meant a wide gamut of materials: paper and office supplies, writing implements, greeting cards, etc....
  • First day of issue
    First day of issue

    The first day of issue is the day on which a postage stamp, postal card or stamped envelope is put on sale, within the country or territory of the Postal administration....


External links

  • : Internet display of a Danish postal stationary collection, 1871-1905 by Lars Engelbrecht.