The year 1949 saw the largest number of issues--264 varieties--of any single year of ROC postal history. This was not because there were a great many things to commemorate, but because the chaotic currency situation and rampant inflation--making paper money virtually worthless as soon as it came out of the printer's--meant that stamps had to be constantly revalued; they were repeatedly altered in the process.
民國三十八年是我國發行郵票最多的一年，在這一年間發行的郵票達二百六十四種，原因不是可堪紀念的事件多，而是當時幣制混亂、通貨膨脹相當嚴重，金圓券甫發行即成廢紙。郵資不斷調漲，郵票的面額也一改再改。