Stamps are authorized impressions or marks useful for the prepayment of your tax or fee. It becomes an official mark or seal indicating a blessing, ownership, or payment of tax. A brief history of stamps can be traced returning to the sixteenth century. The initial official royal mail office was opened in England in 1516. Later, mail was forced to earn for from the recipient rather than sender; this technique proved too problematic for anyone because of the resulting preponderance of undelivered mail. The idea of adhesive postage stamp was introduced by James Chalmers in the uk in 1834. Brazil issued stamps in 1843, as well as in the us, the adhesive postage stamp was officially issued in 1847.