Postal stationery

thumb|Example of a court card, postmarked 1899, showing Robert Burns and his cottage and monument in [[Ayr]] alt=Postcard depicting people boarding a train at the Shawnee Depot in Colorado, late 1800s.|thumb|Postcard depicting people boarding a train at the Shawnee Depot in Colorado, late 1800s

thumb|GB Christmas Aerogram (one of two issued in 1967) An aerogram, aerogramme, aérogramme, air letter or airletter is a thin lightweight piece of foldable and gummed paper for writing a letter for transit via airmail, in which the letter and envelope are one and the same. Most postal administrations forbid including items inside these light letters, which are usually sent abroad at a preferential rate, and enclosing items may cause the mail to go at the higher letter rate.

stationery item with imprinted stamp

coupon that can be exchanged for postage stamps

postal stationery product

postal stationery which pays the cost of the delivery of a newspaper or a periodical

postal stationery with an imprinted stamp or indicium signifying the prepayment of postage

stamp printed onto a piece of postal stationery

type of envelope with a printed or embossed indicium indicating the prepayment of postage

thumb|upright=1.25|1892 imprinted 1d letter card uprated with 1d and 1/2d postage stamps sent from London to Germany, complete with selvages right|thumb|1943 use of an early aerogramme inscribed Air Mail Letter Card. The adhesive stamp, rather than a prepaid [[imprinted stamp or indicium, means that it is not postal stationery but instead a formular air letter card.]]

penny Penates postcard used in a public postal system

imprinted stamp cut from an item of postal stationery

first postal stationery, 1 May 1840