Genuine postally used material also has been produced for collectors.

Postally used stamps usually have no gum and these terms do not apply.

In fact, only 3 examples are known postally used.

It actually belongs - postally at least - to Devon.

Later stamps are identified by overprints even when not postally used.

They were never meant to be postally sent.

Some of the earlier revenue stamps also exist postally used, although this was never authorised.

They are not, however, necessarily more common fiscally used than postally used.

A few printings were never postally sold but nevertheless found their way into the hands of dealers.

Other Soviet stamps overprinted with similar designs are not believed to have been postally valid.

I've been signing on postally in fact.

Few can be found postally used.

All of the surviving examples of the India 1854 (inverted head) are postally used.

In 1912, the archipelago was administratively and postally united to the colony of Madagascar.

All of these are postally used.

Later stamps issued for use at a post office abroad can generally be identified by overprints even when not postally used.

The Orange Free State revenues were also postally used.

Ten postally used covers are recorded between March and November 16, 1870, all related to the work on the site of the lagoon.

In 1969, some issues were put on the market cancelled to order in such a way as to be indistinguishable from genuine postally used copies.

In some cases a genuine stamp can have a fake cancellation applied to make it appear to be a rare, and valuable postally used example.

Postally used copies are much rarer than unused copies.

When the search for stamps includes postally used material, which is all that purists would allow you to collect, finding sources is difficult.

The reverse is true for some stamps, such as the hyperinflation stamps of Germany, which may be worth many times more if genuinely postally used.

Forged cancellations have also be applied to genuine stamps, in cases where the stamps are worth much more postally used.

Since 1 January 1997, Mayotte has been postally autonomous and has issued its own stamps.