A post yesterday reminded me of a question which I am sure has been pinged around this forum before: which countries don't routinely put their names on stamps? There are any number who didn't to start with: Prussia, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Brazil, Uruguay, Iran to name but a few, but as far as I can make out there are only two who didn't / dont: Imperial Russia and Great Britain.
When I started collecting I was told, or I read somewhere that stamps of Great Britain are the only ones allowed to go without the country's identification as a tribute to the fact that the postage stamp was 'born' there. The issuing country's name on postage stamps is supposed to be a UPU rule. As I indicated on TimH's other post I believe that postage due stamps do not carry this requirement, hence these stamps generally are not identified with the issuing country's name.
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