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The Tuvalu Philatelic Bureau was established on 1 January 1976, which was the day the Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony was dissolved and Tuvalu established as a separate British dependency. The first stamp issue was a set of provisional overprinted definitive stamps [ 3 ] and a commemorative set of three stamps. [ 4 ]
Before the first postage stamps of Fiji, mail was carried by trading vessels to Sydney, Australia, and other ports, where it was placed in the mail. [1] The first stamps of Fiji were issued on 1 November 1870 by the local newspaper, the Fiji Times. The British Consul objected to the service and tried to close it in 1871 and appointed an ...
This is a list of philatelic bureaus across the world. In philately , a philatelic bureau is the part of a national postal administration that sells philatelic items to stamp collectors , tourists and stamp dealers .
Post Fiji is the national post office of Fiji.The group was founded in 1871 by the Cakobau Postal Act. [1]The full range of postal, courier and related services are provided by Post Fiji Pte Limited, a state-owned enterprise and runs 58 post offices plus 100 postal agencies. the modern organisation was set up under the Public Enterprise Act controlled by the 2015 Companies Act.
This is a list of postal entities by country. It includes: The governmental authority responsible for postal matters. The regulatory authority for the postal sector. Postal regulation may include the establishment of postal policies, postal rates, postal services offered, budgeting for and financing postal operations.
Stamp of Fiji overprinted 'New Hebrides Condominium', 1908 The first British issues, in 1908 and 1910, were produced by overprinting stamps of Fiji with "NEW HEBRIDES / CONDOMINIUM". These were followed by a joint issue with the French authorities, inscribed "NEW HEBRIDES" over a design including the coats of arms of both France and Britain and ...
These first stamps were delivered by the Fiji Post and Telegraph Department. One first day cover was sent to then-Princess Elizabeth. On the island, first day covers sold out within the day. Envelopes soon ran out, leading to the use of homemade envelopes made first from paper, and later—when paper ran out—from coconut tree materials.
The FIP was founded in 1926 when a small number of European federations came together to found a worldwide organisation. The FIP promotes stamp collecting and philately. The FIP works to promote philately in developing countries, in Asia and in industrialised countries, where it appears to be stagnating. [1]