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Now, 112 years later, anyone in the continental U.S., Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands can participate and the Postal Service has announced a new feature that promises to make it ...
The U.S. Postal Service announced this week that several rate reductions will take effect on Sunday, April 10 -- the first time in nearly 100 years.
The first stamps used in Puerto Rico were issues for the Spanish West Indies, for use in both Cuba and Puerto Rico, but these were not generally used in Puerto Rico until 1856. [2] [3] The first stamps inscribed "Puerto Rico" were issued in 1873. [2] [4] Postal cards for Puerto Rico were printed in Spain and sent to their colonies in 1878. [5]
The first free election for governor of the US territory of Puerto Rico was honored with a 3-cent stamp on April 27, 1949, at San Juan, Puerto Rico. Prior to January 2, 1949, the US president appointed Puerto Rico's governors. The stamp's shows a rural Puerto Rican holding a cogwheel for industry and a box representing the election.
Before the contract expiration, SurePost packages could be delivered by UPS or USPS to the 48 US states, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, all U.S. Territories, PO Boxes and Military APO/FPO ...
U.S. Post Office and Court House when built in 1933 in Ponce, Puerto Rico. The Luis A. Ferré United States Courthouse and Post Office Building (aka, Correo de la Calle Atocha [1]) in Ponce, Puerto Rico, previously known as the U.S. Post Office and Court House, is a historic post office and courthouse facility of the United States, housing operations of the United States District Court for the ...
The Canal Zone Post Office was inaugurated on June 25, 1904. Beforehand the domestic rates of postage in the United States were made applicable to all possessions of the United States on June 20, 1904, which henceforth included the Canal Zone. [4] The first Panama stamps consisted of existing Colombian stamps, which were overprinted with Panama.
According to the most recent 2020 United States census, Puerto Rico had 3,285,874 residents, an 11.8% decrease since 2010. [16] The commonwealth's population peaked in 2000, when it was 3,808,610, before declining (for the first time in census history) to 3,725,789 in 2010. [223]