Show postmasters Fost masters paid for or stamps the first postage stamps were issued by individual postmasters at a their own expense in 1845 post masters at Alexandria va brattle boro vt lockport N Y mill bury mass baltimore md bos boa caben N H providence R L I 1 st louis mo new haven conn and new york N Y supplied their patrons with stamps or stamped en delopes ve lopes which are now very vain able and highly hig prized by collectors the postmaster stamps were super ceded by the first government issue on july 1 1847 |