[edit] Uniform Penny Post
On 10 January 1840, the Uniform Penny Post was established throughout the UK, facilitating the safe, speedy and cheap conveyance of letters, and from 6 May could be prepaid with the first postage stamp, ...
Uniform Penny Post: started in Great Britain in Jan. 1840, with a basic rate of 1d per half ounce regardless of distance carried, and discontinued in 1918.
At the introduction of Rowland Hill's Uniform Penny Post in England in 1840 Henry Cole, Hill's assistant said: "All the progress of mankind is helped on by freedom of thought expressed in writing.
It was called Island Penny Postage (also Inland Penny Postage, and Uniform Penny Post), which meant that all letters sent within the UK went for a single fixed rate of One Penny per half-ounce.
Uniform Penny Post - From the 10th January 1840, letters posted within the United Kingdom were charged a uniform postage rate of 1d.
Unissued - Adhesive stamps prepared for use but not issued.
 See also: Penny post, Stamp, Used, Cover, Official
  
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