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The size of a standard U.S. postage stamp varies slightly, depending on whether the stamp is printed as part of a booklet or a roll. The Four Flags Forever stamp, printed as a booklet of 20 and issued in 2012, measures 0.87 inches wide by 0.98 inches high. That is 0.8526 square inches. Other stamps will be other sizes.
To determine the value of your stamps without denomination, you can try researching them online or contacting a stamp collector or dealer. They may be able to provide information based on the design, color, and any other identifying features. Alternatively, you can take them to a local post office and inquire about their value or if they can be exchanged for stamps of the same value.
38 and 42 is 80 stamps. Twice 80 is 160 minus 8 is 152 38 plus 42 plus 152 is 232.
It depends on where you are posting from, where to, what the weight of the envelop is, whether or not you want First Class or express post or any other services.
This is the following definition of postmark: An official mark stamped on a letter or other postal package, giving the place, date, and time of posting, and serving to cancel the postage stamp.
The country of origin.
A philatelist is a person who collects stamps and can also be referred to as a lover of stamps.
That is what stamps are for, to pay postage. In the US you buy postage stamps and put them on mail to any other country in the world.
Yes as long as the other stamps have not been cancelled
those stamps are forever stamps they will always coast the same as other stamps
Postage stamps that are worth 32 cents can still be used but they must be combined with other stamps to meet the current postage rate. In January of 2014 the current postage rate was 49 cents for a letter that weighs one once of less.
At Sainsburys etc
Postage machines will weigh the precise weight of your package, right down to the ounce, and allow you to add the perfect amount of postage. On the other hand, if you choose to use stamps, you are mostly guessing your cost and may waste stamps or even add too little postage, causing the parcel to be redirected to you.
The same as stamps in other years.
That is practically impossible to answer. There are nearly 200 countries in the world, with a wide variety of postage stamps for all kinds of categories of postage. Postage has changed through that time, with new kinds of postage and all sorts of changes in stamps. Some countries did not exist in 1960 that did in 2000, and others ceased to exist during that period. To list all the prices of all of the stamps in all of those countries and their changes, would be vast. Outside of postage stamps, then there are all kinds of other stamps, like rubber stamps and metal stamps, stamps on products etc. They all have costs too that have changed. So your question has a vast list of answers, that would be impossible to give you.
No. The International Postal Union regulates the exchange of mail. The postage is collected and affixed at the post office of origin and no stamps of any other country are required.
It depends on the issuing authority. The US has not devalued postage stamps since 1862, which means anything issued since then can still be used for postage. Other countries have invalidated stamps as of certain dates or events. Check with you local postal authority for specifics in other countries.