Cinderella stamp

[1] There is a wide variety of cinderella stamps, such as those printed for promotional use by businesses, churches, or political or non-profit groups.

[4][5] Revenue stamps may be considered cinderellas, but as they are normally issued by an official government agency, they tend to be classified separately.

[6] Some telegraph, railway and other stamps may also be issued by government agencies but still fall under the cinderella umbrella since they are not for postal purposes.

[citation needed] In the United Kingdom many local carriage labels have been issued by offshore islands, which in some cases had a genuine use to pay for transport of the mail to the mainland by ferry.

Usually they had to be placed on the back of the envelope, with a conventional stamp on the front to pay for onward delivery by the official postal service.

[10] Fund-raising stamps with anti-state messages have appeared within labor unions such as the ones printed by the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, and the Industrial Workers of the World.

[citation needed] While many cinderella stamps are common, others were privately produced in limited numbers, are little-known, and can be quite rare.

[citation needed] Cinderella philately has a specific name in many countries, such as Erinnophilie in France and Germany, or Erinnofilia in Italy.