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Malta (/ ˈ m ɔː l t ə / ⓘ MAWL-tə) is a city in, and the county seat of, Phillips County, Montana, United States, [3] located at the intersection of U.S. Routes 2 and 191. The population was 1,860 at the 2020 census .
The Chief Secretariat's Office took responsibility of the Post Office in 1815. Starting from 1819, the Island Post Office used various handstamps reading Malta P Paid, Malta Post Paid or Malta Post Office on mail. [9] On 3 July 1806, the Packet Office was established in order to create a regular mail service between Britain and Malta.
The Malta Study Circle, a group of philatelists who study Malta's stamps and postal history, has produced a number of publications relating to the Melita issue. Two study papers which related to the original 1922–26 issue and the 1926 Postage overprints were published in 1970, [26] and they were combined into a single paper in 1972.
MaltaPost p.l.c. was registered with the Malta Registry of Companies as a public limited company on 16 April 1998. It took over from Posta Limited on 1 May of that year. On 31 January 2002, MaltaPost was partially privatized when the government sold 35% to Transcend Worldwide Ltd, a subsidiary company of New Zealand Post Ltd.
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The Casa del Commun Tesoro, which housed the Order's post office in Malta from 1708 to 1798. The Knights Hospitaller established an early form of postal service in Malta in the early 1530s, and the earliest known letter from the islands was sent from Grand Master Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam to François II de Dinteville [], the Bishop of Auxerre and the French ambassador in Rome, on 14 ...
1821 - Carlo Meratti, an Italian, living in Alexandria, establishes a post office to send and receive mail to and from foreign countries. [11] 1825 - The US establishes a dead letter office. [12] 1828 - Hellenic postal service established.
Postal history has become a philatelic collecting speciality in its own right. Whereas traditional philately is concerned with the study of the stamps per se, including the technical aspects of stamp production and distribution, philatelic postal history refers to stamps as historical documents; similarly re postmarks, postcards, envelopes and the letters they contain.