@GeoffHa
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(i) to use on government correspondence, to try to avoid theft of ordinary stamps by employees (with a side benefit of creating yet more sellable material for the philatelic market)
As far as India is concerned, this speculation is absolutely false.
Service or official stamps in India was introduced on August 1,1866 primarily to help to
keep simplified separate accounts of the expenditure incurred on postage for intra-governmental mail as well as official correspondences to the general public.
Posted 01/18/2019 01:29 am
