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Saudi Post ( Arabic: البريد السعودي "سُبل") is a government operated postal system in Saudi Arabia; it is generally referred to within the kingdom as "al-Bareed".
A precanceled stamp, or precancel for short, is a postage stamp that has been legitimately cancelled before being affixed to mail. [1] [2] A number of nations of the world use precancels, typically in the form of an overprint on definitive series stamps.
The Post in ancient and medieval India The history of India's postal system begins long before the introduction of postage stamps. The antecedents have been traced to the systems of the Persian Empire instituted by Cyrus the Great and Darius I for communicating important military and political information.
The history of the postage stamps and postal history of China is complicated by the gradual decay of Imperial China and the years of civil war and Japanese occupation in the 1930s and 1940s. In modern times, postal delivery is handled by China Post .
History of the British Army postal service A British Wilding series postage stamp used at a BFPO on Christmas Island in 1957. The postal service of the British Army is today provided by the British Forces Post Office but its origins may be traced back to Saxon times.
With the resumption of independence in 1991, the Republic of Croatia again reinstated the Croatian Post, with the first new postage stamp being an airmail issued 9 September 1991, [6] and with the first new regular postage stamp being issued on 21 November 1991. [7] However, on 1 April 1991 Croatia had issued a postal tax stamp, required on all ...
Postage stamps and postal history of the British Virgin Islands 1867 stamp 1867 The Missing Virgin is the rarest stamp – only four or five examples are known; the last time a Missing Virgin was at auction was on December 11, 2015 when it fetched GBP120'000.
Early years Born Bruce Chalmers in San Juan Capistrano, California, Chalmers was orphaned and put up for adoption. As a young boy, he was an avid stamp collector, and wrote to the King of Yemen, asking for local postage stamps for his collection. His reply came from the Imam's young son, Muhammad al-Badr, which started a lifelong friendship between the two.