While mail services have existed for millennia, it was not until 1837 that the postage stamp was proposed, said the USPS website. British teacher and inventor Sir Rowland Hill had the then ...

The concept of an adhesive stamp to indicate pre-payment of postage was part of a master plan by a man called Sir Rowland Hill. An English teacher and inventor, Sir Rowland spent years campaigning ...

This Sir Rowland Hill, who was dismissed as 'mentally backward' as a youngster, went on to become the father of the modern postal service, the inventor of the postage stamp, and one of the great ...

Contents Milestones in postal history, by R. K. Wortley.--The birth of the postal service, by C. R. Clear.--"A stamp is invented," by F. W. Bond.--Rowland Hill: a biographical note, by C. R.

According to Barnebys, the legendary Mauritius stamps debuted in 1847, just seven years after Sir Rowland Hill created the first postage stamp in history, decorated with the image of 21-year-old ...