Stamp everyday usage

The stamps of everyday usage are postage stamps printed in very great quantity and which are used to free most of the mail.

They are opposed to the commemorative stamps (or “beautiful stamps”), of which the stamps of everyday usage are often characterized by graphics. The very great pulling of the latter often leads to appeared allegorical the, official ones and lack variety since the recipients always see the same stamp.

Conditioning

Used by a very great number of people, in fact the stamps of everyday usage profited in first of the new conditionings imagined by the postal administrations:

Sheet of stamps as of the Penny Black in 1840,
the invention of the Serration to detach them more easily,
the Book of stamps in 1895 with the Luxembourg,
the postal Whole , i.e. a fold préaffranchi,
the preobliteration for the sendings of company in great number,
phosphorescent bars for the tri automatic of the mail,
the self-adhesive Stamp at the end of the Years 1980 with the Canada,
stamps with facial value in the form of one simple letter, or with permanent value (the post office does not print a value or more rarely prints the use envisaged in all letters).

Symbolic system

The States made use of the series of stamps of everyday usage to illustrate their national symbols.

In monarchies, the effigy of the sovereign appears on the stamps of everyday usage. For example, currently, Elisabeth II with the the United Kingdom or Albert II in Belgium.

The dictatorships reveal, sometimes, the portrait of their leader. During Third Reich, Adolf Hitler is used as subject with the German stamps of everyday usage, but also of the territories under protectorate like Bohemia-Moravie for example. This inspiration remains in the Federal Republic of Germany where the portraits of the Presidents of the Republic in function (Theodor Heuss, Gustav Heinemann) decorate the envelopes. It ceases at the end of the years 1970 with the come to power of Karl Carstens.

However founded on the Worship of the personality, the the USSR never used the effigies of Stalin, Khrouchtchev or Brejnev for its stamps of everyday usage. Only Lénine was it, but after its death.

In the the United States and the Canada, the Drapeau appears there.

In France, since the end of the Second world war, it is Marianne, a Allégorie of the Republic which illustrates these stamps, with however the interlude of the Sabines between the years 1977 and 1981. Starting from the president Valery Giscard d'Estaing, the series of everyday usage is renewed approximately once by presidential mandate.

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