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 the collection 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
has issued 732 Postage stamps and 28 Souvenir
sheets.
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