Now ubiquitous in many of Japan’s 9,000 stations, the first eki stamp appeared in 1931 at Fukui station near the Sea of Japan coast, where stationmaster Kanichi Tominaga hit upon the idea of a ...

“Australians will continue to have some of the lowest stamp prices in the OECD and, with this increase, the basic postage rate will have risen by just 70 cents in the past eight years,” Australia Post ...