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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. [10] On 3 July 1806, the Packet Office was established in order to create a regular mail service between Britain and Malta.
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 J.B. Catalogue of Malta Stamps and Postal History is Malta's leading stamp catalogue. It was first published in 1984 and is published bi-annually by Joseph ...
MaltaPost issued its first stamps on 27 May 1998, and the issue consisted of a set of 4 commemorating the International Year of the Ocean. Less than a year after MaltaPost took over, in early 1999, the German company Bundesdruckerei began printing Maltese stamps instead of the local company Printex Limited.
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 ...
A printing of ½d stamps in green was made in 1883 but was not issued immediately, while a final printing of the ½d yellow was made in 1884. [13] The transfer of control took place on 1 January 1885 when the Malta Post Office was established.
It was renovated, and opened as the General Post Office (GPO) in May 1886. [8] The ground floor was used as a livery yard for horses to be used by postmen. [10] A third floor which housed the Audit Office was added after World War I. [8] The building was included on the Antiquities List of 1925. [11]
Printing of the stamp with the revised design began in October 1913, [5] and a limited quantity of 1530 stamps (consisting of 51 sheets of 30 stamps each) was printed and sent to Malta. The Post Office planned to release this stamp after stocks of the 1899 issue were exhausted, but the stamp was inadvertently issued prematurely at the Valletta ...