<#stamp=stamps> that paid for <#carserv=carrier service>. Carriers’ Stamps for national use were issued beginning in 1851 and are called Official Issues or general issues (<#scott=Scott> LO). Other carriers’ stamps were used locally in Baltimore, Boston, Charleston, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Louisville, New York, Philadelphia, and St. Louis. (<#scott=Scott> LB). They were issued by or under the authority of the local postmaster. They are called semi-official issues, and were issued as early as 1842.