* Specimen stamp — sent to postmasters and postal administrations so that they are able to identify valid stamps and to avoid forgeries.

** Sheetlets – this is a format that is now issued regularly by postal administrations.

This postal corruption by the rings had stealthily succeeded for many years during both the Grant and Hayes administrations.

The extensive work of Hundertwasser includes 26 stamps with for various postal administrations.

Seven other designs created for the postal administrations of Morocco and French Polynesia, were not realized as a postage stamp.

Some artists use the form create fantasy stamps for their own postal administrations or countries – in many cases thereby developing or complementing an imaginary governmental system.

Many postal administrations now have the ability to print inkjet annotations directly onto a cover, either as a barcode for reading by other equipment, or as text.

Most postal administrations forbid enclosures in these light letters, which are usually sent abroad at a preferential rate.

Being internal departments within postal administrations, little information about the dead letter office function has ever been made public.

In practice, it is slow and difficult to build a comprehensive collection by removing stamps from mailed envelopes, so modern postal administrations accommodate collectors by offering new stamps already cancelled.

Each of the world's national postal administrations establishes and regulates the specific methods and standards of franking as they apply to domestic operations within their own postal systems.

Any and all conflicts that might arise affecting the franking of mails serviced by multiple administrations which result from differences in these various postal regulations and / or practices are mediated by the UPU, a specialized agency of the United Nations which sets the rules and technical standards for international mail exchanges.

WWI pen franked " Soldier Mail " In addition to this type of franking privilege, from time to time ( especially during wartimes ) governments and / or postal administrations also authorize active duty service members and other designated individuals to send mails for free by writing " Free " or " Soldier's Mail " ( or equivalent ) on the item of mail in lieu of paid postal franking, or by using appropriate free franked postal stationery.

While, technically, there is no reason for postage dues to reach private hands unused, postal administrations have sold them to collectors, and the postage dues of many countries exist in large numbers, often unused and of low value.

By the 1990s, approximately 160 postal administrations were issuing Christmas stamps, mostly on an annual basis.

Both postal administrations issue their own postage stamps for use in Andorra — those of Spain and France are not valid.

Until 2004, Andorra had no post codes, but in that year, in cooperation with both countries ' postal administrations, they were finally introduced, with each of the seven parishes of Andorra having its own post code ( or codi postal in Catalan ).

Since postal administrations are either a branch of government or an official monopoly under governmental supervision, the government has ultimate control over the choice of designs.

From time to time postal administrations also try experiments.

Since its creation, 169 postal administrations have joined the EMS Cooperative, representing over 82 % of EMS operators worldwide.

Postal codes in Belgium consist of four digits which indicate regional areas, e. g. " 9000 " is the postal code for Ghent.

In September 2003, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's cabinet proposed splitting Japan Post into four separate companies: A bank, an insurance company, a postal service company, and a fourth company to handle the post offices as retail storefronts of the other three.

* In September 2010, The Freshmen were among four Irish showbands featured on a special set of commemorative stamps issued by An Post, Ireland's postal service.

The postal history of Canada falls into four major periods: French control ( 1604 – 1763 ), British control ( 1763 – 1841 ), colonial government control ( 1841 – 1867 ), and the Dominion of Canada, since 1867.

In September 2003, Koizumi's cabinet proposed splitting Japan Post into four separate companies: a bank, an insurance company, a postal service company, and a fourth company to handle the post offices as retail storefronts of the other three.

In 1985, Mr. Potato Head received four postal votes in the run for mayor of Boise, Idaho in the " most votes for Mr. Potato Head in a political campaign " as verified by Guiness World Records

Stamp-issuing policy was relatively restrained in the 1980s, with about 7-8 special issues each year, typically of four stamps each, and a definitive series of mammals in 1980, but by the end of the decade the postal administration had begun putting out large numbers of issues aimed solely at stamp collectors, with averages of over 100 types annually.

The City is represented by seven councillors elected once every four years by postal voting.

Born in Dallas, Texas, as one of four children ( excluding her mother's two children from an earlier marriage ), to postal clerk Calvin Roy Darnell and the former Pearl Brown.

Councillors are elected by residents in a postal ballot, using the proportional representation system and hold office for a term of four years.

Born in Austin, Texas, Kirk is the youngest of four children ; his father was a U. S. postal worker and the family was politically active.

In 1832 a postal service commenced in Goulburn, four years after the service was adopted in New South Wales.

According to the government of Augusto Pinochet, Bosch " lived quietly as an artist ", while the US government held Bosch responsible for postal bombings of Cuban embassies in four countries.

A Bahamas four pence imprinted stamp cut square from a piece of postal stationery. In philately, a cut square is an imprinted stamp cut from an item of postal stationery such as a stamped envelope, postal card, letter sheet, letter card, aerogram or wrapper in a square or rectangular shape.

In a press release dated Dec. 10, 1980, the postal service announced a new plate numbering system that would, except in cases where more than four designs appear on a pane, " establish a plate block as consisting of four stamps regardless of the number of inks used or the press used to print the stamps.

Although there are differences in the manner that the postal systems of the 191 nations that belong to the Universal Postal Union ( UPU ) apply and regulate the way their mails are franked, most mails fall under one ( and sometimes more ) of four major types and / or methods of franking: postage ( stamps, etc.

Together they had four sons ; George who became a postal clerk in the railway mail service ; Charles who became a partner with his father ; the other two were Fred and Austin.

Greater controversy surrounded the other provisions of the bill concerning the Briefwahl, or postal vote, and the extension of the legislative period for the National Council from four to five years.

Braugher, the youngest of four children, was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Sally, a postal worker, and Floyd Braugher, a heavy-equipment operator.

According to one source a wider definition is in " the LS7 postal region, and can be mapped through four points ; where Scott Hall Road runs to north to where it intersects with Potternewton Lane, where Harehills Lane runs east and intersects with Avenue Hill, where Spencer Place runs south and intersects with Roundhay Road, to the very bottom and beginning of Chapeltown Road.

* On the 100-year anniversary of the birth of John Bauer, the Swedish postal service made three, and later in 1997 four stamps with motifs from Bland tomtar och troll.