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In 1867, the Jerusalem-Jaffa route operated twice a week, and beginning in 1884, the Nablus-Jaffa route received daily despatches. [ 6 ] Initially all the postal facilities had the status of relay stations, and letters received their postmarks only at the Beirut post office.
The postal service operated by the Mandatory authorities was reputed to be the best in the Middle East. Letters were delivered daily in Jerusalem. Palestine joined the Universal Postal Union in October 1923. [1] The post was transported by boat, train, cars and horses, and after 1927, also by air. [2] During the volatility of 1947 and 1948 ...
Nablus is located 42 kilometers (26 mi) east of Tel Aviv, Israel, 110 kilometers (68 mi) west of Amman, Jordan and 63 kilometers (39 mi) north of Jerusalem. [50] Nearby cities and towns include Huwara and Aqraba to the south, Beit Furik to the southeast, Tammun to the northeast, Asira ash-Shamaliya to the north and Kafr Qaddum and Tell to the west.
Postal code: 9XXXXXX. Area code +972-2: ... now Nablus, a city of some importance in early sacred Hebrew writing. ... where both Palestine and Israel has control. ...
Postal codes are assigned by Israel Post generally from north to south, with the first two postal code digits being the postcode areas — thus, Metula in the north has 1029200 as its postal code, and Eilat in the south was assigned 88xxxxx. Jerusalem postal codes start with the digit 9, although this does not correspond with its geographical ...
The postal history of Palestine and Transjordan. Heathfield. ISBN 1-872465-89-7. First edition (1985): The postal history of British Palestine 1918-1948. Rachwalsky, E. (1957). Notes on the Italian post office in Jerusalem. In: The BAPIP Bulletin. No. 21, pp. 16–18. Rachwalsky, E. and A. Jacobs (1962).
The postal code refers to the post office at which the receiver's P. O. Box is located. Kiribati: KI: no codes Korea, North: KP: no codes Korea, South: 1 August 2015 KR: NNNNN Previously NNN-NNN (1988~2015), NNN or NNN-NN (1970~1988) Kosovo: XK: NNNNN A separate postal code for Kosovo was introduced by the UNMIK postal administration in 2004 ...
In the wake of the 1993 Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), control of Tulkarm was transferred to the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) on 10 December 1995, becoming the third Palestinian city from which Israeli forces withdrew. [26]