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A postal code typically consists of an island code, a hyphen separator, and a section code. They were introduced in 2006. [1] The name of each island functions as the "post town"; the name of the settlement or locality is not used to route mail. There are only three island codes: KY1 for Grand Cayman, KY2 for Cayman Brac, and KY3 for Little Cayman.
A 1970 stamp showing the coat of arms of Islands 1907 stamps showing King Edward VII.They were printed as five-shilling stamps, but then overstamped as one-penny stamps.. The Cayman Islands, a British Overseas Territory located in the western Caribbean Sea, came under British control in 1670, as a dependency of Jamaica, continuing in that status until 1962.
The Caribbean Postal Union (CPU) is an association established by treaty of the postal authorities of the following member countries: [1] [2] The bloc was established with the assistance of the European Union for member-states of CARIFORUM as part of the bloc of the African, Caribbean, and Pacific Group of States.
The Cayman Islands (/ ˈ k eɪ m ən /) is a self-governing British Overseas Territory, and the largest by population.The 264-square-kilometre (102-square-mile) territory comprises the three islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman, which are located south of Cuba and north-east of Honduras, between Jamaica and Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula.
A group of islands in the western South Pacific of which the main ones are Palau, Yap, Truk, Ponape and Kosrae. They were a Spanish colony from 1885 but there was no postal service as such until 1899 when the islands were purchased by Germany as the protectorate of Karolinen. Karolinen was administered from Rabaul in German New Guinea.
A sectional center facility (SCF) is a processing and distribution center (P&DC) of the United States Postal Service (USPS) that serves a designated geographical area defined by one or more three-digit ZIP Code prefixes.
The three public bodies of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba started issuing postal stamps after the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles in 2010. The islands form a separate postage region under the name Caribisch Nederland (English: Caribbean Netherlands). The first stamp issued showed the maps of the three islands.
The Cayman Islands are a British dependency and island country. It is a three-island archipelago in the Caribbean Sea , consisting of Grand Cayman , Cayman Brac , and Little Cayman . Georgetown, the capital of the Cayman Islands is 438 km (272 mi) south of Havana , Cuba , [ 1 ] and 504 km (313 mi) northwest of Kingston, Jamaica , [ 2 ...