In the meantime, some semi-postal stamps of Germany were also surcharged.
Greece's first semi-postal stamps were produced during the occupation.
The only stamp to be designed for the occupation was also its last; a semi-postal stamp issued in 1943.
But semi-postal stamps are still predominantly European.
At the end of 1904 Russia issued its first semi-postal stamps.
The use of semi-postal stamps is at the option of the purchaser.
Three out of eight were semi-postal stamps benefiting the French Red Cross.
As it did not sell well, a semi-postal stamp without a pink ribbon, the breast cancer research stamp, was designed in 1998.
The first semi-postal stamp was issued in 1913, but regular annual issues did not start until 1915.
Stamp issues continued and a number of semi-postal stamps were issued.