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The List of post offices in the British Mandate of Palestine refers to post offices operated in Palestine under allied British military control of the Occupied Enemy Territory Administration and, after 1920, the civil administration of the British Mandate of Palestine. During the Mandate, postal services were provided by British authorities.
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The total cost was £120,000 [1] for the building to house the administrative and engineering staff of Palestine Post, Telegraph & Telephone, the Jerusalem central telephone exchange and the Jerusalem post office. [1] The opening ceremony was held on 18 June 1938, in the presence of the High Commissioner and hundreds of guests.
Starting in 1994–95, the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) established post offices throughout the PNA, developed its own unique postmarks [1] and issued stamps. In its first decade, the PNA expanded from 49 to 82 post offices (1994–2004). It provides a range of mailing services and issued its first stamp booklets in 2000. [1]
Kerrasunde (Russian Post Office) 1909–1910 Mount Athos (Russian Post Office) 1909–1914 Mytilene (Russian Post Office) 1909–1914 Rizeh (Russian Post Office) 1909–1910 Salonika (Russian Post Office) 1909–1914 Smyrne (Russian Post Office) 1909–1910 Trebizonde (Russian Post Office) 1909–1910 Palestine (Russian Post Offices) 1868–1914
The company was nationalized at the start of the war in 1914. Navon's license expressly prohibited the company from transporting mail for the various foreign post offices. [119] Postmarks for this travelling post office, some inscribed Bur. Amb. Jerusalem–Jaffa, are registered by collectors from May 13, 1893 to December 14, 1914. [120] [121]
The Umayyad empire (661–750) who introduced the "first purely Arab coinage" in Palestine also developed a system of postal service. [5] Khans distributed along the main north-south and east-west roads that served as resting places for pilgrims and travellers facilitated the operation of the postal service, known as the barid. [6]
The structure of postal rates followed broadly British practice and new services, like airmail and express delivery, were added over the years. From 1926 reduced rates applied for mail to Britain and Ireland, and from 1 March 1938 to 4 September 1939, Palestine was part of the All Up Empire airmail rates system.