Who invented stamps? The origin of the birth of stamps

One girl excitedly kissed her fiancé's letter from London, but said, "I'm sorry sir, please return the letter, I don't have that much money to pay for postage." The postman refused.

A young man named Roland Hill offered generously, but the girl politely declined.

Roland Trembling Hill began to pity her, but later found out that he had been fooled. It turned out that the girl had made an appointment with her fiancé in advance, and if a circle was drawn under the envelope to indicate that he had found a job, she would not have to spend money to get the letter.

Roland Hill felt that the loopholes in the postal service should be closed. He analyzed the postal system at that time and boldly made three proposals to the Parliament: one was to drastically reduce the postage, the second was to charge by weight, and the third was to change the postage to the sender's advance.

Roland Hill then thought, "How can the sender indicate on the mail that the postage has been paid in advance, and how much has been paid?" Make simple marks?

That would also create a loophole for some people to exploit and make complex marks? The cost of different weights of mail is different, and there are many marks, which can bring confusion! After much deliberation, he finally came up with a stamp that could represent postage.

On May 6, 1840, the first official stamp issue in the United Kingdom. The stamp features a portrait of Queen Victoria of England in black. Worth a penny, also known as a black penny stamp. As soon as the stamps were introduced, they were quickly accepted all over the world.

Postage stamps bring great convenience to the telecommunications industry. However, at the beginning, the postal staff must be equipped with a paper cutting knife, so that dozens of stamps can be cut at any time**, the sender sometimes buys a large stamp, when it is ready, but also has his own knife for cutting. Not only is it troublesome, but it is also difficult to cut neatly.

One day in 1848, when the British inventor Henry Achar was drinking in a small bar, he saw a customer next to him after writing a letter, fiddling with a large stamp, because there was no knife, he took off a pin pinned to the suit tie, pierced a row of small holes in the connection of each stamp, and tore the stamp very neatly.

Soon after, the stamp punch was made in Henri Achar's laboratory. It will punch neat rows of holes between each stamp in each large stamp. In this way, it is very convenient to tear apart each stamp.

The British postal service immediately adopted it, and this punch machine was popularized to all countries around the world.

Birth of the origin of the stamp.