English-Dutch translations for postage stamp

• postzegel
  - Mijnheer de Voorzitter, dit document gaat over BTW, over de belasting op de toegevoegde waarde op postzegels. – Mr President, this document refers to VAT, value added tax, on postage stamps.
  Het is ons inziens dan ook verstandiger om de Raad en de Commissie te vertellen wat wij willen om prijsverhogingen voor postzegels te voorkomen. So it makes more sense to us to tell the Council of Ministers, and the Commission too, what we want done to prevent postage stamps going up in price.
  Het Verenigd Koninkrijk wil hier niet aan! bestaat al 371 jaar en het waren de Britten die in 1840 de eerste postzegel uitgaven, met het hoofd van Koningin Victoria erop. The British Post Office is now 371 years old, and it was the British in 1840 who brought out the first postage stamp, bearing the head of Queen Victoria.
• Winkelhaak

Definition of postage stamp

• A small piece of printed paper stuck on an item to be mailed, indicating that postage has been paid
• A very small area

Examples

• The postage stamps on the letters from overseas were almost as interesting as the letters themselves.
• We have just a postage stamp of a back garden.

Related words

• postage stamp booklet
• postage stamp error
• definitive postage stamp
• collection of postage stamps
• postage due stamp
• postage
• postage meter
• postage rates
• postage paid