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The use of postage stamps began in April 1858 with a consignment of British stamps. These were cancelled "A05" at Nassau.The use of British stamps was brief however; in the following year the Bahamian post office became independent of London, and issued its own stamps beginning 10 June 1859.
1992 – The Postal Service became a government-owned and controlled corporation under its present name the Philippine Postal Corporation by Virtue of R.A.7354, the Postal Service Act of 1992; 2004 – The Service was placed under the Commission on Information and Communication Technology per Executive Order 269 dated January 12, 2004;
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).
The 1945 series. In 1938, postal service was established and the first postage stamps of Greenland were issued on 1 December. The series consisted of five stamps with a portrait of the Danish king Christian X and two with the image of a polar bear.
Korea Post headquarters in Sejong City, South Korea. This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of South Korea. In 1945, Korea was liberated from Empire of Japan's colonial rule at the end of World War II, but soon divided into North and South Korea. South Korea began to issue its own stamps from 1946.
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]
Post box of Hong Kong before 1997, with the royal cypher of Queen Elizabeth II. Japan surrendered on 15 August 1945, and postal service under the British resumed on 25 August, initially for free. [15] No stamps were available, so octagonal handstamps inscribed with ‘HONG KONG 1945 POSTAGE PAID’ were later used in lieu of stamps.
Until 2022 any 1st and 2nd class and decimal currency postage stamps could be used; old Machin and country definitive design stamps without barcodes are no longer valid from 31 July 2023, with old ones exchangeable for barcoded ones indefinitely [20] through a process which Royal Mail calls the "Stamp Swap Out scheme". [25]