It has been already 150 years since the first postage stamps, valid on the territory of Slovakia, have been printed. These were then the postage stamps of the Austrian Empire. England is the country, where the first postage stamp in the world has been published on 6^th May 1840. In the next decade there came the postage stamps of other 9 postal services have been printed, among which, there were also the postage stamps of the Austrian Empire printed on the 1^st June 1850. At that time Slovakia was one of the countries under the Habsburg rule and as part of Austria it had not its own postage stamps.

The motive of the first issue of the postage stamps valid on the Slovak territory was the Emperor's crown and on both of its sides there was the inscription "K. K. POST -STEMPEL". In the lower part of the stamps there is a label with the value data. The first printed issue contained 5 postage stamps with the nominal values 1, 2, 3, 6 and 9 KREUZER (local currency). The postage stamps do not bear the name of the country, their identification mark is the Habsburg Emperor's and King's crown.

After the Austrian-Hungarian split in 1867 the Hungarian postal service wanted to publish its own postage stamps, but it was then not technically ready for printing. Therefore the new issue of 1867 was printed by the Austrian authorities and the postage stamps were valid in both parts of the monarchy. The first stamps printed in Hungary were issued on the 1^st May 1871.

The first Czecho-Slovak stamps were printed on the 18^th December 1918, when the title "Slovakia" appeared for first time ever on the state duty stamp in the designation "Pošta Česko-Slovenská".

The first Slovak stamps were published on the 1^st January 1993, which is the date of establishement of the Slovak republic.