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General Post Office circa 1911. The postal system in the British colony of Hong Kong began in 1841 when the Royal Mail established the first General Post Office in the region. [1] [2] Between 1841 and 1862, no stamps were issued, and postmarks were used to certify payment of the postage instead.
The central government of the Granadine Confederation, was responsible for inter-state services and all outgoing and incoming mail to and from other countries. For these purposes national postage stamps were issued from 1859, bearing the inscription Confed. Granadina Correos Nacionales. [7]
While a large proportion of the stamps of the 1980s appear to deliberately appeal to thematic collectors (cars, dogs, cats, etc.), 21st century stamps are broader in scope, and the issue rate has declined. This seems to reflect a shift in issuing policy away from the orientation towards thematic collectors, thus making the field of Vietnamese ...
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).
On September 12, 2018, before the September 2018 inter-Korean summit, Korea Post issued a stamp depicting both leaders of North and South Korea, commemorating the previous April 2018 inter-Korean summit and 2018 North Korea–United States Singapore Summit. This was the first time in Korean postal history the North Korean leader appeared on a ...
2d Map of Ireland: first Irish postage stamp. The postage stamps of Ireland are issued by the postal operator of the independent Irish state. Ireland was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland when the world's first postage stamps were issued in 1840.
The 1866 local stamps of Liannos et Cie for the Egyptian postal service in Constantinople. In 1865 the local post distribution company Liannos et Cie was established in Constantinople to distribute mail arriving in the city which was not addressed in Arabic as the staff of the Ottoman Postal Service were unable to read the Latin alphabet. In ...
An issue with new scenes and a full-face portrait of George VI marked the granting of self-government in 1944, although it was not issued until August 1945. A set of four stamps with historic scenes marked the 300th anniversary of British control in 1955, followed in 1956 by a series of 16 stamps depicting flora, fauna, and local scenery.