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On August 20, 2024, Sri Lanka's Postal Department issued the world's longest stamp, measuring 205 millimetres (8.1 in), [10] to commemorate the Kandy Esala Perahera festival in Kandy. The stamp has a value of Rs. 500.
The only evidence of a British postal service before 1815 is a "Colombo Post Free" handstamp used on a soldier's letter in 1809, when British Royal Artillery troops were engaged to subdue Sri Vikrama Rajasinha, the king of Kandy (1798–1815), whose inland territory had never been under the influence of the Dutch.
The first permanent post office in the country was established by the British in Colombo in 1882, when the country was a crown colony. [1] It was housed in several different locations until the construction of the General Post Office building at 17 Kings Street (now known as Janadhipathi Mawatha), Colombo Fort, opposite the-then Governor's residence at King's House (now the President's House ...
Institute of Management of Sri Lanka: FIM(SL), MIM(SL), AMIIM(SL) Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing: FSLIM, MSLIM, CMSLIM, AMSLIM Armed Forces: Passed Staff College: psc Logistics Staff Course: lsc Sri Lanka Army: SLLI, SLAC, SLA, etc. Sri Lanka Army Volunteer Force: SLAVF Sri Lanka Navy: SLN Sri Lanka Volunteer Naval Force: SLVNF Sri Lanka Air ...
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Bahamas used Post Office system instead of Postal Code [1] Bahrain: BH: NNN, NNNN Valid post code numbers are 101 to 1216 with gaps in the range. Known as block number (Arabic: رقم المجمع) formally. The first digit in NNN format and the first two digits in NNNN format refer to one of the 12 municipalities of the country.
On 26 December 1990 Sri Lanka Post issued a Rs. 10 stamp with a photograph of the Post Office, to commemorate World Postal Day. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] In June 2017 the United Postal Trade Union went on a three-day strike in order to stop the government's plans to sell the Nuwara Eliya, Kandy and Galle Fort post offices to private developers, in order for ...
Postal codes in Sri Lanka are five digit numbers used by Sri Lanka Postal Service, that identifies each postal jurisdiction to sort mail more efficiently. They were first introduced in 1997. They were first introduced in 1997.