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Although postal service in China goes back some 2,500 years, modern postal services were not established until 1877 by the Qing government. This 1-candareen stamp of 1885 has an unidentified seal cancellation and a postmark from the French post office in Shanghai. A 1/2-cent value of the 1897 issue, lithographed in Japan.
China Post distinguishes delivery postmarks from posting postmarks. When a letter or a postcard is accepted into the care of a postal service, a black postmark is applied on the postage stamp, known as the "posting postmark" ( Chinese : 收寄日戳 ).
The Chinese characters are re-written to look like the original but there are subtle differences in the strokes. The gilt double line on the spine is wider apart than in the original version. A table of content written in traditional Chinese and English is included and bind as part of the book immediately after the preface by the co-editor. R4
The Whole Country is Red is a Chinese postage stamp, issued on 24 November 1968, [1] which contained a problem with the design. The stamp features a map of China with the words "The Whole Country is Red" (Chinese: 全国山河一片红), with a worker, farmer, and soldier standing below with copies of Quotations from Chairman Mao, but Taiwan is not shaded red, merely outlined.
Registered mail from China Post is only traceable in the sense that the mailman marks the item as delivered when and if it is delivered to the recipient's mailbox. No proof that the recipient has received the mail is collected.
The most common types are postmarks and cancellations; almost every letter will have those. Less common types include forwarding addresses, routing annotations, warnings, postage due notices and explanations, such as for damaged or delayed mail, and censored or inspected mail.
[1] [2] Between 1841 and 1862, no stamps were issued, and postmarks were used to certify payment of the postage instead. [3] [4] The earliest postmarks were used by military field offices, and read "MILITARY POST OFFICE CHINA" (c. 1842) and "MILITARY POST OFFICE HONG KONG" (1841–1842). An assortment of postmarks were used for civilian ...
Coded postal obliterators are a type of postmarks that had an obliterator encoded with a number, letter or letters, or a combination of these, to identify the post office of origin. They were introduced in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1843, three years after the first stamp was issued.