Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Sri Lanka is an island country in South Asia, located about 31 km off the southern coast of India. After over two thousand years of rule by local kingdoms, parts of Sri Lanka were colonized by Portugal and the Netherlands beginning in the 16th century, before control of the entire country passed to Britain in 1815.
Postal museum is a Sri Lanka's national museum of post that located at the Postal Headquarters in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Firstly, the postal museum was functioned at the Central Telegraph Office during 1918–1925, and moved to General Post Office in 1994. Again, a national postal museum was opened on 6 July 2010. [1]
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 ...
Sri Lanka Post has a long history of 222 years, dating back to 1798, when the colonial Dutch rulers started five post offices in the Maritime Districts under their control. In 1799, they published the first postal regulations and postage rates.
Thotagamuwe Sri Rahula Thera, poet (1977) Mohammed Cassim Siddi Lebbe, lawyer, educator, journalist (1977) Veera Puran Appu, revolutionary (1978) Sir Ernest de Silva, Philanthropist; D. S. Senanayake, prime minister (1979) Piyadasa Sirisena, patriot, writer (1979) Swami Vipulananda, philosopher (1979) Rowland Hill, postal reformer (1979)
Pages in category "Postal system of Sri Lanka" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... Postage stamps and postal history of Sri Lanka;
On 8 July 2005 the post office building was gazetted as an Archeological Protected Monument. [9]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 the buildings be converted into hotels.
The first mail service in Ceylon, was in 1788, established by the Dutch East India Company between Holland and Batavia via the Cape of Good Hope and Dutch Ceylon. [1] They established postal offices in the coastal trading centres of Colombo, Galle, Jaffna and Mannar.