The
Emergence of postage stamps in Great Britain
in 1840 as a prepaid postage system is an
important landmark in the history of Postal
Services. Though the postage stamps was
introduced to collect postal revenue only,
but since then postage stamps collection
has become a hobby – irrespective
of age of the collect on Philately, is regarded
as “King of Hobbies”. Today
Philately has become a business product
all over the world. Like Bank Notes Postage
stamps are also regarded as symbol of sovereignty
of an independent state.
During
our Great Liberation War the Provisional
Government of the People’s Republic
of Bangladesh issued a set of 8 postage
stamps on July 29, 1971 to mould international
support for our liberation war. After the
liberation of Bangladesh on December 16,
1971. The first commemorative stamps of
Bangladesh was issued on February 21,1972
in commemoration of Great Language Movement
of 1952 depicting ‘Shaheed Minar’.
Bangladesh Post Office thereafter continued
issue of definitive, Commemorative and special
Postage Stamp and Postal stationeries on
National and International events, heritage
and culture. Till date Bangladesh Post Office
ha issued 732 Postage stamps and 28 Souvenir
sheets.
How
to view Stamps
There
are various types of stamps available. Stamps
are mainly two types -
1. Commemorative 2. Definitive
Each of two categories again having 3 subcategory.
They are listed bellow. You can click to view
every types of stamps listed bellow.
First
day cover also available in philately.You
also can choose Year
wise link to view stamps according to
publication year.
How
to buy Stamps
To buy the stamps you should browse any category
(Commemorative, Definitive, Services) of stamps
then from the stamp list you will have to
click the buy button or from the Details page
you can buy stamps buy clicking on the buy
button. After clicking on the buy button will
you see the message “Stamp is Added
to the cart” If you want to buy more
you can select the required stamps and click
on the buy button for each stamp. After selecting
required stamps you will have to click on
View Stamps button. You will see the details
information of you selected Stamps. Click
on the Check out button there and in the next
page Fill up the from and click on submit.
In this page will find the total information.
Click on the Order Now button to proceed the
order. Your order will be submitted and you
will see a message your order ID.
How to track Order
After Submitting order successfully we will
provide you an Order ID . You can track your
order Status from Tracking
and Tracing
