For many centuries, the delivery of letters was quite expensive. Everything has changed since 1840, when in England, and then in many other countries, they began to introduce one amazing invention. Mail delivery has become cheaper and easier, mail exchange has increased hundreds of times. Information has become publicly available, and civilization, the entire community of countries and peoples have lived differently, have entered a new stage of development. All this is thanks to the postage stamp. Now we can safely talk about its great role in recent history.