By law, United States postage stamps can honor only those individuals that have died or fictional characters. However, other nations can and do use living persons on their stamps. For example, British stamps often feature portraits of the current monarch and many stamps from Vatican City show the current Pope.
Living people may not appear on US Postage stamps. There is a specific number of years after someone dies as well, the that is waived for a past President.
On a US Postage stamp. On US postage stamps, and currency whether paper or coins.
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Yes, every country uses postage stamps.
US postage stamps do not expire -- they are always worth face value as postage.
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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.
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