ISSUE 173 - May 2, 2025 - Stamp News Online Magazine
Philatelic Events in History:
The Dockwra Post Paid Mark
(From Mekeel’s Weekly and STAMPS, with images added)
William Dockwra: Pioneer of Postage Paid Stamps
The curtailment of postal services in the United States because of an effort by the Post Office Department to cut its expenses, has raised a hue and cry throughout the land. Something will be done about the reduction in mail deliveries, and other services to which we have been accustomed, but suppose there were no mail deliveries whatever, as was the situation in London in 1680? What would we do? Would we as individuals be permitted to start up our own service as William Dockwra did in 17th Century London?
Howard Robinson, in The British Post Office: A History, writes: “Such a service was badly needed. The Post Office had made even less adequate provision for . . .
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