The first postage stamp was issued in Britain on the sixth of May of the year 1840 AD, and the idea of the postage stamp dates back to Roland Hill, who invented an adhesive postage stamp in 1837 AD, and received a knighthood (an honorary title in Britain) in his honor, [1] Thanks to Roland Hill, the poor became able to He bore the cost of sending messages, and the sender became the one who paid for sending the message by purchasing the stamp, and not the receiver as was the case previously.
It was the first postage stamp bearing a picture of the head of Queen Victoria, drawn by the artist Henry Corbould, commissioned by the printing company that Roland chose to print the postage stamp, which is Perkins, Bacon & Petch (in English: Perkins, Bacon & Petch). Equivalent to $0.01, for messages that weigh no more than 14 grams.
Switzerland is considered the second country to issue its own postage stamp, followed by Brazil in 1843 AD, which preferred to choose an abstract drawing instead of the image of Emperor Pedro II so that his image would not be distorted by the postmark, then the United States, which issued official stamps in 1847 AD, where the value of the stamps was 5 and 10 cents, equivalent to a value much less than a dollar, and these stamps bore the image of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington, and by the 1960s most countries in the world issued their own postage stamps.
