Sentence examples for issuing stamps from inspiring English sources

The town also features the Falkland Islands Philatelic Bureau; the Falklands have been issuing stamps that reflect the area's history and wildlife since the late 1800s.

Figuring that a majority of couples are still choosing traditional printed invitations for their weddings, rather than "e-vites" and other Web communications tools, the Postal Service has been issuing stamps featuring cakes, flowers, gold bands and other wedding themes.

He proposed issuing stamps without the Sovereign's head, but this met with private opposition from the Queen.

In 1847 the U.S. government issued stamps of 5- and 10-cent value, bearing pictures of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington, respectively.

We don't mark it with celebrations, we don't issue stamps about it," he points out.

Adopting the title His Tremendousness, Carbone printed money, issued stamps, raised an army, wrote a constitution, and passed a law to encourage smoking.

Austria and various German states followed suit in 1850, after which the remaining countries of the world began to issue stamps.

An article on Tuesday about a decision by the United States Postal Service to issue stamps featuring people still alive described incorrectly the measure of popularity of a 1993 stamp picturing Elvis Presley and a 1995 stamp picturing Marilyn Monroe.

The postage stamp was adopted for use by the semiofficial City Despatch Post of New York City in 1842, and the next year the Brazilian empire and the Swiss cantons of Zürich and Geneva also issued stamps.

A spokeswoman said it was the first time Jersey Post had issued stamps for a Hollywood film.

Deutsche Post issued stamps depicting the Brusch character Hans Huckebein, and the German Republic minted a 10 Euro silver coin faced with his portrait.