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2. Postage stamps and postal history of Japan - Wikipedia

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   A 1967 stamp of Japan featuring a painting of Mount Fuji. The story of Japan's postal system with its postage stamps and related postal history goes back centuries. The country's first modern postal service got started in 1871, with mail professionally travelling between Kyoto and Tokyo as well as the latter city and Osaka.

3. Rowland Hill - Wikipedia

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   Sir Rowland Hill, KCB, FRS (3 December 1795 – 27 August 1879) was an English teacher, inventor and social reformer. [1] He campaigned for a comprehensive reform of the postal system, based on the concept of Uniform Penny Post and his solution of pre-payment, facilitating the safe, speedy and cheap transfer of letters.

4. Postage stamps and postal history of Kenya - Wikipedia

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   Kenya used stamps of British East Africa Company (1890–1895), British East Africa (1895–1903), East Africa and Uganda Protectorates (1903–1922), Kenya and Uganda (1922–1935) and Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika/Tanzania (1935–1976).

5. Postage stamps and postal history of Cyprus - Wikipedia

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   Castle, Wilfrid T. F. Cyprus, 1353–1986: History, Postal History & Postage Stamps. London: Christie's-Robson Lowe/Cyprus Study Circle, 1987 ISBN 0-85397-418-7 546p. Frangoudis, Hermes St. Catalogue of Cyprus Stamps and Postal History 1845–2002. Athens: The Author, 2003 ISBN 9609205003 336p. Georgallis, C. and Spencer, M. Stamp Booklets 1962 ...

6. Postage stamps and postal history of Finland - Wikipedia

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   The Finnish Post Office now offers a service by which the purchaser of postage stamps can have their own chosen image personalized onto the face of a postage stamp. The user uploads the image to the post office web site and pays a fee over and above the price of a normal postage stamp. [1]

7. Postage stamps and postal history of Hungary - Wikipedia

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   The emblem of the Hungarian Royal Post used between 1867 and 1945. The postal history of Hungary is strongly linked to the history of Hungary.While a messenger system was brought to the Carpathian Basin by Árpád as early as 895, modern mail delivery was first organized by the Habsburgs under the Austrian Empire.