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You can print postage legally through USPS approved web sites. You can also rent a postage meter machine to print out postage. If you intend to defraud the government by not paying postage, yes, it is a Federal crime. To print fantasy post stamps is not illegal. US Stamps produced in Black and White or substantially different in size is not illegal. The images are copyright and subject to those restrictions as well.
That is the purpose of postage, to allow you to mail letters to anywhere in the world. The stamps of the country of origin of the mail are used for postage.
No. The Universal Postal Union requires you to use the stamps of the country of origin.
No. The stamps used must be those native to the country in which the items are posted.
Yes, every country uses postage stamps.
US postage stamps do not expire -- they are always worth face value as postage.
No, they did not exist then. Great Britain introduced the first postage stamps in 1840.
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Yes, it is one of the Postage Stamp countries that obtains a large percentage of their revenue through the sale of postage stamps.
There were no stamps in 1801. The first postage stamps were issued in Great Britain in 1840. It was several years after that that German issued postage stamps.