All stamp designs get their OK from Terry Pratchett himself. The stamps are based on the descriptions in the Discworld books (especially Going Postal). The Discworld stamps are available as collectors items since 2004, made by the Discworld Emporium. Lancre in the Ramtops), or guild wants its own stamp design, even though most of the cities and kingdoms do not have their own post offices. Sto Lat and others on the Sto Plains), kingdom (e.g.
Stamps have become something like a status symbol. The collecting of stamps has swept over the city like a fever and replaced the rather popular collecting of pins, especially in the case of Stanley Howler, the Head of Stamps at the Post Office. In fact, Lord Vetinari himself refers to stamps as "promissory notes."
The Patrician's Palace estimates that a one-penny stamp, on average, changes hands twelve times, acting as a penny, before it gets affixed to a letter to redeem its value with the Post Office. The advantage of stamps is that they weigh a lot less, take less space, and are a lot prettier. Since the re-opening of the Post Office, stamps have become something like the second official currency in Ankh-Morpork besides the Ankh-Morpork dollar (which is still solid coin made of a mixture of miscellaneous metals, probably).
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