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The post office, circa pre-1930 An aerial view of the post office, 1932. Manila's first post office was established in 1767. During the early years of the American occupation, the Philippine Commission created the Bureau of Posts, which later became the Philippine Postal Corporation, through Act No. 462 issued on September 15, 1902.
A massive fire tore through Manila’s historic post office building overnight, slightly injuring seven people and razing the nearly 100-year-old landmark in the Philippine capital, police and ...
In 1767, the first post office in the Philippines was established in the city of Manila, which was later organized under a new postal district of Spain. [4] At first, the postal office served mainly to courier government and church documents. In 1779, the postal district encompassed Manila and the entire Philippine archipelago. The postal ...
A huge fire raged at a post office in Manila on Sunday (21 May), destroying the historic building. Footage shows thick smoke pouring from the Manila Central Post Office, which dates back to the 1920s.
Philippine addresses always contain the name of the sender, the building number and thoroughfare, the barangay where the building is located, the city or municipality where the barangay is located and, in most cases, the province where the city or municipality is located.
The Philippine News Service (PNS) was organized in 1950 as a news gathering cooperative by the publishers of the then-leading national newspapers: the Manila Times-Mirror-Taliba, Manila Chronicle, Manila Bulletin, Philippines Herald, Evening News, Bagong Buhay, and The Fookien Times. Its main function was to supply daily news and photos from ...
1946 – The Manila Central Post Office was re-built; 1992 – The Postal Service became a government-owned and controlled corporation under its present name the Philippine Postal Corporation by Virtue of R.A.7354, the Postal Service Act of 1992; 2004 – The Service was placed under the Commission on Information and Communication Technology ...
ZIP codes of provinces according to the first two numbers ZIP codes of cities and municipalities in Metro Manila according to the first two numbers. In the Philippines, a ZIP code is used by the Philippine Postal Corporation (PhlPost) to simplify the distribution of mail.