Postage Stamps of the United States First Issued in 1882 President: Chester A. Arthur  ·  Postmaster General: Timothy O. Howe Domestic Letter Rate: 3¢ / half ounce ·  Card Rate: 1¢ ·  Registry Fee: 10¢ ·  Foreign Rate: 5¢ Ordinary Postage Stamps First Issued in 1882 - Re-Engraved and 5¢ Redesign   American Bank Note Company - Soft Porous Paper - Perf 12 - 200 Subject Plates   Five Cent Brown Garfield  Six Cent Rose Lincoln Ten Cent Red Brown Jefferson Ten Cent Dark Brown Jefferson The following postage stamp varieties were first issued by the U.S. in 1882: Ordinary issue: 5c Garfield - 6c Lincoln - 10c Jefferson Scott 205   - Five Cent Brown to Gray Brown Garfield - EDU: Feb. 18, 1882 - 170,894,020 issued Scott 208   - Six Cent Rose to Dull Rose Lincoln - EDU: June 1, 1882 - about 12 million issued Scott 208a   - Six Cent Deep Brown Red Lincoln  Scott 209   - Ten Cent Red Brown Jefferson - EDU: May 4, 1882 - about 151 million issued Scott 209b - Ten Cent Black Brown Jefferson American Bank Note Company Special Printing - Design of 1882:  Scott 205C - Five Cent Gray Brown Garfield - Special Printing Commemoratives: The First Commemorative stamps were not issued until 1893 Special Delivery: The First Special Delivery stamps were not issued until 1885 Postage Dues: No new varieties of the Postage Due stamps were issued in 1882                   Previous: 1881 Next: 1883

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