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  2. Rationing in the United States - Wikipedia

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    To enable making change for ration stamps, the government issued "red point" tokens to be given in change for red stamps, and "blue point" tokens in change for blue stamps. The red and blue tokens were about the size of dimes (16 millimetres (0.63 in)) and were made of thin compressed wood fiber material, because metals were in short supply.

  3. Carrier's stamp - Wikipedia

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    First carrier stamp of Italy, 1928. Carrier's stamp is a type of postage stamp used by private mail carriers to deliver mail directly to an addressee from the post office. History. When the postal service was first organized and the delivery of mail was only from one post office to another post office and not directly to the addressee. This ...

  4. U.S. Parcel Post stamps of 1912–13 - Wikipedia

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    The U.S. Parcel Post stamps of 1912–13 were the first such stamps issued by the U.S. Post Office Department and consisted of twelve denominations to pay the postage on parcels weighing 16 ounces and more, with each denomination printed in the same color of "carmine-rose".

  5. Airmail - Wikipedia

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    The first stamps designated specifically for airmail were issued by Italy in 1917, and used on experimental flights; they were produced by overprinting special delivery stamps. Austria also overprinted stamps for airmail in March 1918, soon followed by the first definitive stamp for airmail, issued by the United States in May 1918.

  6. Postage stamps and postal history of Great Britain - Wikipedia

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    Under the Gum – Background to British Stamps 1840–1940. Limassol: James Bendon, 1997 ISBN 9963-579-76-0, 536p. Oliver, Sidney and F. Hugh Vallancey. The Postage Stamps of Great Britain, 1840–1922. London: "Stamp Collecting", 1923, 563p. Rose, Stuart. Royal Mail Stamps: A Survey of British Stamp Design.

  7. Trading stamp - Wikipedia

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    Gold Bond trading stamps were dispensed in strips at the time of purchase and pasted into books for saving. Trading stamps were small paper stamps given to customers by merchants in loyalty programs in the United States, Canada and the U.K. which predated the modern loyalty card-based [1] and online programs.

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