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Four years later, in 1970, when the Hellenic Post Organization was established, the effort for amassing and sorting out the material meant for the museum begun. At the same time, an appropriate location to house the museum had to be found. Eventually, in 1977, benefactors Nia and Andrea Stratos donated the building that houses the museum to ...
The National Postal Museum at Postal Square Building in Washington, D.C., United States The Spellman Museum of Stamps & Postal History at Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts, US. A postal museum is a museum dedicated to the display of objects relating to the postal service.
The GPO Museum is located in the General Post Office in Dublin, Ireland which opened on 29 March 2016. [1] On the same location was the An Post Museum located between 28 July 2010 and 30 May 2015. It was a small museum which offered visitors an insight into the role played by the Post Office in the development of Irish society over many ...
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The Hellenic Post S.A. (Greek: Ελληνικά Ταχυδρομεία, abbreviated ΕΛΤΑ, ELTA) is the state-owned provider of postal services in Greece. It succeeded the former government Postal Service, founded in 1828. ELTA provides a universal postal service to all parts of Greece and is a member of the Universal Postal Union.
Greece's first postal service was founded in 1828, at the time of Greek independence from the Ottoman Empire. This initial service continued mail delivery and, later, the issuing of postage stamps until 1970. It was then succeeded by the Hellenic Post S.A. (abbreviated
"Review of The History of the Post Office to 1836 by Herbert Joyce". The Academy. 44 (1125): 456–457. Joyce, Herbert (1893). The History of the Post Office from Its Establishment Down to 1836. London: Richard Bentley & Son – via Internet Archive. Mackay, James A. (1982). Registered Mail of the British Isles. Dumfries, Scotland: James A. Mackay.
The Hellenic Post Office introduced numerically coded postal obliterations in October 1861, with the introduction of the first postage stamps. They were of rhombic (diamond) shape with the number of the post office at the center. In philatelic publications they are classified as Type I Classic Postmarks. A total of 150 different numbers can be ...