A piece of postal stationery is a stationery item, such as a stamped envelope, letter sheet, postal card, lettercard, aerogram or wrapper, with an imprinted stamp or inscription indicating that a specific rate of postage or related service has been prepaid. It does not, however, include any postcard without a pre-printed stamp, and it is different from freepost for preprinted cards issued by businesses. In general, postal stationery is handled similarly to postage stamps; sold from post offices either at the face value of the printed postage or, more likely, with a surcharge to cover the additional cost of the stationery. It can take the form of an official mail issue produced only for the use of government departments.
UK letter card of 1892 with an imprinted stamp and perforations.
U.S. postal card of 1881 with an imprinted stamp.
A Bavarian postal card of 1895 with an imprinted stamp.
Cuban postal card of 1878.
A stamped envelope or postal stationery envelope (PSE) is an envelope with a printed or embossed indicium indicating the prepayment of postage. It is a form of postal stationery.
A 2 centavos stamped envelope with embossed Columbus indicium and 3c adhesive postage stamp from Cuba to Norway ca. 1904
A fawn colored, UPSS size 7, watermark 6, laid paper, US postal stationery envelope from the Plimpton series of 1883.
1899 postal stationery envelope with an imprinted special request corner card of Miro y Otero from U.S. occupied Cuba.
