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Foreign currency is the ultimate commodity: the euros or dollars you get cheap from a backstreet bureau de change are worth exactly the same as the notes you might buy, expensively, at your high ...
Britain's Royal Mail also stopped selling IRCs on 31 December 2011, citing minimal sales and claiming that the average post office sold less than one IRC per year. IRCs purchased in foreign countries may be used in the United States toward the purchase of postage stamps and embossed stamped envelopes at the current one-ounce First Class ...
Country Company Website Status Afghanistan: Afghan Post: afghanpost.gov.af: Azerbaijan: Azərpoçt: azerpost.az: Bahrain: Bahrain Post: customs.gov.bh: Bangladesh
The Post Office noted the success and profitability, and it took over the system in 1838. Fees were further reduced and usage increased further, making the money order system reasonably profitable. The only draw-back was the need to send an advance to the paying post office before payment could be tendered to the recipient of the order.
Quite often the terms "buy" and "sell" are used the other way round by a bureau de change, and the buy rate may seem higher that the sell rate: in such cases, it means "we buy/sell our local currency at the rate shown" (examples from Google Images). For example, suppose that the spot price on a particular day is €1.50 to £1.
Khania (Italian Post Office) 1900–1912 Italian post offices in Egypt Italian post offices in the Ottoman Empire 1873–1923 Constantinople (Italian Post Office) 1908–1923 Durazzo (Italian Post Office) 1902–1916 Jannina (Italian Post Office) 1909–1911 Salonika (Italian Post Office) 1909–1911 Scutari (Italian Post Office) 1909–1915
The UN Post Offices in Geneva and Vienna began offering this type of sheet in 2009. Two sheets were produced in 2007 and two in 2008 denominated in Euros. The editors of the Scott Catalog question whether they were ever actually sold at the UN Post Office in Vienna, a primary criterion for recognizing them as a legitimate postal issue. The ...
The Philatelic and Numismatic Office of the Vatican City State (Italian: Ufficio Filatelico e Numismatico), managed by Poste Vaticane, is responsible for issuing Vatican postal stamps and Vatican coins. The office was created on 11 February 1929 in the nations founding, and issued the first of the nations postal stamps on 1 August of the same ...