+ Issue Date     : 1938
+ Classification : Newspapers Wrapper
+ Separations    : Normal Perforations
+ Gum Type       : Gum
+ Shape          : Rectangular

In philately a wrapper is a form of postal stationery which pays the cost of the delivery of a newspaper or a periodical. The wrapper is a sheet of paper, large enough to wrap around a folded or rolled newspaper and with an imprinted stamp to pay the cost of postage. Some catalogs and reference books refer to a wrapper aspostal bands which comes from the French term bandes postale. Still others refer to it as a newspaper wrapper or periodical wrapper.