{"id":127,"date":"2006-09-19T18:14:45","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T17:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=127"},"modified":"2006-09-19T18:14:45","modified_gmt":"2006-09-19T17:14:45","slug":"is-the-postage-stamp-licked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"Is the postage stamp licked?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Life and times of the British postage stamp:<\/b><br \/>\n1840 The Penny Black, the world&#8217;s first adhesive stamp, is issued for use on May 6 following a Government reform paper which suggested postage should be prepaid by the sender. A Two Penny Blue is also issued. Both feature Queen Victoria&#8217;s head.<br \/>\n1854 Perforations appear on stamps for the first time. Until this point, they had to be cut from their sheet with scissors.<br \/>\n1924 The first UK commemorative stamp is issued, marking the opening of the British Empire Exhibition.<br \/>\n1966 Special Christmas stamps are issued for the first time. The Royal Mail now prints more than 480 million festive stamps per year.<br \/>\n1968 First and Second Class postage Is introduced.<br \/>\n1982 Royal Mail produces its longest ever stamp &#8211; the Information Technology stamp, which measures 72.3mm.<br \/>\n2001 The Cats and Dogs collection become the first self-adhesive stamps issued in the UK.<br \/>\n2006 Online scheme allows Royal Mail customers to pay for postage on the web, without the need to buy traditional stamps.The Queen&#8217;s head does not appear on the new barcode &#8216;stamps&#8217;. More information <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.royalmailgroup.com\/news\/article.asp?id=1801&#038;brand=royal_mail\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life and times of the British postage stamp: 1840 The Penny Black, the world&#8217;s first adhesive stamp, is issued for use on May 6 following a Government reform paper which suggested postage should be prepaid by the sender. A Two Penny Blue is also issued. Both feature Queen Victoria&#8217;s head. 1854 Perforations appear on stamps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}