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History. 1892 Straits Settlements stamp. A postal service had been available in Singapore since the contemporary city was founded by Stamford Raffles in 1819. Postal services were first directly organised in Singapore in 1826, and from 1829 rectangular postmarks began to be used on local correspondence.
The postage stamps and postal history of Christmas Island, in the Indian Ocean, was linked to its original economic situation until 1993. Mainly ruled by a phosphate production commission, the island was part of the British Straits Settlements colony from 1901 to 1942, then of Singapore from 1946 to 1958. Although it was placed under Australian ...
In 1910 new stamps appeared with values of $25 and $500 (although available for postage, their more usual use was fiscal). George V replaced Edward VII on stamps beginning in 1912, reusing the frames and replacing only the vignettes. These stamps were overprinted in 1922 to mark the Malaya-Borneo Exhibition. The Straits Settlements also joined ...
The new special delivery stamp issued on December 22, 1947, pictured the Philippines' progress. The old stamp portrayed a postal messenger jogging against the background of Mt. Mayon, the new stamp showed a mail messenger riding on a bicycle to deliver a letter. In the background may be seen the Manila Post Office Building.
GMT−15:56 (in Manila) local mean time: GMT−16:12 (in Balabac, the westernmost island) GMT−15:34 (in Davao Oriental, the easternmost area) Tuesday, December 31, 1844: The day that never occurred as ordered by the Spanish Governor-General Narciso Claveria to add 24 hours to the local mean time. [13] Time Zone change [note 1] Wednesday ...
The ASEAN Common Time ( ACT) is a proposal to adopt a standard time for all Association of Southeast Asian Nations member states. [ 1][ 2] It was proposed in 1995 by Singapore, and in 2004 and 2015 by Malaysia to make business across countries easier. [ 3][ 4] The proposal failed because of opposition in Thailand and Cambodia: [ 3][ 5] Thais ...
The ship fee, including the ship rate on letters for delivery at the port of entry, were on a per letter basis, rather than weight. The United States issued its first postage stamps in 1847. Before that time, the letters' rates, dates, and origins were written by hand or sometimes in combination with a handstamp device. [1]
The S&P 500, an index composed of the biggest publicly traded companies in the U.S., hit another all-time high this week. And in an unusual twist, it has been financial stocks at the forefront of ...