On this day, the world’s first adhesive postage stamp used in a public postal system, the ‘Penny Black’, featuring a profile of Queen Victoria, was issued in the United Kingdom. The idea of a pre-paid adhesive postage stamp was the brainchild of the teacher, inventor and social reformer, Sir Rowland Hill, who is generally regarded as being the originator of the basic concepts of the modern postal service. Prior to the advent of Hill’s invention, all post was paid for by the recipient and was relatively expensive. Hill was convinced that that if letters were cheaper to send, people, including the poorer classes, would send more of them, and eventually profits would go up. In fact, in the first year of the ‘penny post’ the number of letters sent in the UK more than doubled.
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