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Killed after being hit by a tipper lorry which failed to stop at a routine police road block along Dairy Farm Road towards Upper Bukit Timah Road. He was the second Volunteer Special Constabulary (VSC) to die in the line of duty, since 12 May 1955. Two other VSC officers, including his 46-year-old wife, were injured.
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 first United States non-denominated postage stamp, issued in 1975, was valued at 10 cents. Non-denominated postage is a postage stamp intended to meet a certain postage rate, but printed without the denomination, the price for that rate. They may retain full validity for the intended rate, regardless of later rate changes, or they may ...
This article lists people who have been featured on United States postage stamps, listed by their name, the year they were first featured on a stamp, and a short description of their notability. Since the United States Post Office (now United States Postal Service or USPS) issued its first stamp in 1847, over 4,000 stamps have been issued and ...
He was convicted of murder and sentenced to death. November 14, 1991, Royal Oak, Michigan: In the Royal Oak post office shootings, fired postal worker Thomas McIlvane killed four and wounded five before killing himself. May 6, 1993, Dearborn, Michigan: Postal worker Larry Jasion killed one and wounded three others before killing himself at a ...
After increasing the price of a first-class postage stamp to 68 cents in January, the U.S. Postal Service is planning to increase the cost again in the coming days.. The USPS will bump the cost of ...
On 21 January 2022, at a playground in Greenridge Crescent, located in Singapore's Upper Bukit Timah, 11-year-old twin brothers Ethan Yap E Chern (叶育成 Yè Yùchéng) and Aston Yap Kai Shern (叶凯胜 Yè Kǎishèng), who were both diagnosed with autism, were murdered by their 48-year-old father Xavier Yap Jung Houn (叶俊宏 Yè Jùnhóng), who strangled the both of them to death ...
Singapore Post Limited ( SGX: S08 ), commonly abbreviated as SingPost, is an associate company of Singtel [2] and Singapore 's designated Public Postal Licensee which provides domestic and international postal services. It also provides logistics services in the domestic and international markets, warehousing and fulfillment, and global ...