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Sri Lanka Post was the first to inaugurate a mail coach service in Asia. The mail coach service began operations in 1832, between Colombo and Kandy. [7] This was extended between Galle and Colombo in 1838. The year 1892 saw the first "Travelling Post Office" doing its run between Colombo and Peradeniya, a suburb of Kandy.
This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Sri Lanka, formerly known as Ceylon.. Sri Lanka is an island country in South Asia, located about 31 km off the southern coast of India.
SALPOST (Sierra Leone Postal Services Limited) is the national post office of Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone Postal Service Ltd, also known as SALPOST, is the national post office of Sierra Leone. A member of the Universal Postal Union, Sierra Leone officially joined the Universal Postal Union on 29 January 1962. [1]
The first post office was located at 92 Pedlar Street (originally known as Moor Street) and opened in 1820, [1] under the direction of the Postmaster General of Ceylon, Lewis Sansoni. It was one of the five first post offices opened in the colony by the British. [2] The first mail coach service, between Colombo and Galle, began operations on 2 ...
Originally built in 1972 and 1973 as high-speed container ships known as SL-7s for SeaLand, the ships' high operating costs limited their profitability. All eight ships were acquired by the United States Navy in 1981 and 1982, with the last ship converted, delivered to and placed in service with Military Sealift Command in 1986.
The post was established in 1949, when Lieutenant Colonel Anton Muttukumaru was appointed as chief of staff to Brigadier the Earl of Caithness, the first Army Commander when the Ceylon Army was formed. The post was thereafter held by one of the senior most officers in the Ceylon Army, usually of the rank of colonel.
In the post war years the navy has expanded its maritime operations to fisheries control and to counter human trafficking. Operations to counter illegal poaching by Tamil Nadu fishermen have led to allegations that personnel from the Sri Lanka Navy have attacked more than twelve fishermen, two of whom have died, in a series of disputes.
In electrochemistry, the auxiliary electrode, often also called the counter electrode, is an electrode used in a three-electrode electrochemical cell for voltammetric analysis or other reactions in which an electric current is expected to flow.