July 1st is National Postage Stamp Day! This day commemorates when the first US stamp was issued on this day in 1847. Up until then, people would send a mailed item and the receiver would pay when it arrived. By 1855, the postage stamp became required for all mail. In honor of today, Howard letterpress printed two cuts that to relate to postage stamps, and that would be in cases where postage isn’t required. In the print, the one on the right states, “NON-PROFIT ORG. U.S. POSTAGE PAID SACRAMENTO

July 1 is National Postage Stamp Day, commemorating the issue of the first US postage stamps in 1847. | American Philatelic Society