List of postal services abroad
In the latter part of the 19th and early part of the 20th century, a number of countries maintained post offices in foreign countries, arranged by treaty. Most such offices were operated by European powers in the Middle and Far East. They were partly motivated by the desire to provide reliable postal service for merchants and other foreign nationals in major cities, and partly by suspicion of the local postal service. The currency in use could be either the local currency, or that of the home country.
Additionally, it became the practice of occupying military powers to establish postal services in the occupied country.
List[]
- Austrian Post Abroad
- Italy (Austrian Occupation) 1918 only
- Lombardy-Venetia 1850–1866
- Montenegro (Austrian Occupation) 1917 only
- 1917–1918
- 1916 only
- 1904–1919
- Crete (Austro-Hungarian Post) 1903–1914
- Austro-Hungarian Post in the Ottoman Empire 1867–1915
- Palestine (Austrian Post Offices) 1854–1914
- Austro-Hungarian Military Post 1915–1918
- Belgian Post Abroad
- 1920 only
- German East Africa (Belgian Occupation) 1916–1918
- 1919–1920
- British Post Abroad
- British post offices abroad
- British post offices in Africa various issues
- Baghdad (British Occupation) 1917 only
- Bangkok (British Post Office) 1882–1885
- Batum (British Occupation) 1919–1920
- 1885–1923
- Bushire (British Occupation) 1915 only
- Cameroons (British Occupation) 1915 only
- China (British Railway Administration) 1901 only
- China (British Post Offices) 1917–1930
- Crete (British Post Offices) 1898–1899
- East Africa Forces 1943–1948
- Eastern Arabia (British postal agencies) 1948–1966
- Egypt (British Forces) 1932–1943
- Eritrea (British Military Administration or British Administration) 1948–1952
- German East Africa (British Occupation) 1917 only
- Iraq (British Occupation) 1918–1923
- 1859–1879
- Japan (British Commonwealth Occupation Force) 1946–1949
- Long Island (British Occupation) 1916 only
- Madagascar (British Consular Mail) 1884–1895
- Mafia Island (British Occupation) 1915–1916
- Malaya (British Military Administration) 1945–1948
- Middle East Forces 1942–1947
- Morocco Agencies 1898–1957
- North Borneo (BMA) 1945 only
- 1916 only
- Sarawak (British Military Administration) 1945 only
- Somalia (British Military Administration or British Administration) 1948–1950
- Tangier 1927–1957
- Tripolitania (British Military Administration or British Administration) 1948–1952
- Chinese Post Abroad
- 1911–1912
- Egyptian Post Abroad
- Gaza (Egyptian Occupation) 1948–1967
- Jaffa (Egyptian Post Office) 1870–1872
- Finnish Post Abroad
- Aunus (Finnish Occupation) 1919 only
- Eastern Karelia (Finnish Occupation) 1941–1944
- French Post Abroad
- Andorra (French Offices) 1931 –
- 1919 only
- Castelrosso (French Occupation) 1920–1921
- 1918–1921
- 1906–1908
- 1865–1880
- 1923 only
- 1917–1919
- 1885–1896
- 1895 only
- Memel (French Administration) 1920–1923
- Morocco (French Post Offices) 1862–1914
- Syria (French Occupation) 1919–1923
- Tangier (French Post Office) 1918–1942
- Saar (French Administration) 1920–1935
- French post offices abroad
- China (French Post Offices) 1894–1922
- Tientsin (French Post Office) 1903–1922
- Crete (French Post Offices) 1902–1913
- Egypt (French Post Offices) 1899–1931
- Alexandria (French Post Office) 1899–1931
- Port Said (French Post Office) 1899–1931
- Zanzibar (French Post Office) 1889–1904
- Ottoman Empire (French Post Offices) 1885–1923
- Beirut (French Post Office) 1905 only
- Dedeagatz (French Post Office) 1893–1914
- Kavalla (French Post Office) 1893–1914
- Port Lagos (French Post Office) 1893–1898
- Vathy (French Post Offices) 1893–1914
- Palestine (French Post Offices) 1854–1914
- 1942–1946
- German Post Abroad
- 1918 only
- 1943–1944
- 1870–1871
- 1940–1941
- 1914–1918
- Dalmatia (German Occupation) 1943–1945
- 1918 only
- 1941 only
- Laibach (German Occupation) 1943–1945
- 1941 only
- Lithuania (German Occupation) 1941 only
- 1940–1941
- 1940–1944
- 1944 only
- Montenegro (German Occupation) 1943–1945
- Ostland (German Occupation) 1941–1945
- 1915–1918
- 1939–1945
- 1917–1918
- 1941–1944
- 1941–1944
- 1943–1945
- 1890–1891
- China (German Post Offices) 1886–1917
- Morocco (German Post Offices) 1899–1917
- German post offices in the Ottoman Empire 1884–1914
- 1914–1918
- 1939–1945
- 1916–1918
- 1916–1918
- Palestine (German Post Offices) 1898–1914
- Germany (Allied Occupation)
- 1947–1949
- 1945 only
- 1945–1946
- 1945–1946
- 1945–1946
- 1945–1946
- 1945–1946
- 1947–1949
- 1946–1948
- 1948–1949
- 1945–1946
- 1945–1946
- 1947–1949
- 1948–1949
- Saar (French Zone) 1945–1947
- Greek Post Abroad
- 1861–1881
- 1940–1941
- 1913 only
- 1913 only
- 1912–1913
- 1912–1913
- 1947 only
- Indian Overseas Forces
- 1965 only
- 1954–1968
- 1953 only
- 1919 only
- 1962 only
- 1900–1923
- 1914–1922
- Indo-Chinese Post in China
- Canton (Indo-Chinese Post Office) 1901–1922
- China (Indo-Chinese Post Offices) 1900–1922
- Hoi-Hao (Indo-Chinese Post Office) 1902–1922
- Kouang-Tcheou 1898–1943
- Mong-Tseu (Indo-Chinese Post Office) 1903–1922
- Pakhoi (Indo-Chinese Post Office) 1903–1922
- Tchongking (Indo – Chinese Post Office) 1903–1922
- Yunnanfu (Indo-Chinese Post Office) 1903–1922
- Israeli Post Abroad
- 1967 –
- 1967–1982
- 1967 –
- Italian Post Abroad
- 1939–1943
- 1901–1912
- 1941 only
- 1941 only
- 1923 only
- Dalmatia (Italian Occupation) 1919–1923
- Ethiopia (Italian Occupation) 1936 only
- Lubiana (Italian Occupation) 1941 only
- Montenegro (Italian Occupation) 1941–1943
- Saseno (Italian Occupation) 1923 only
- Trentino (Italian Occupation) 1918–1919
- Tripoli (Italian Post Office) 1909–1912
- Venezia Giulia (Italian Occupation) 1918–1919
- 1941–1942
- 1941–1943
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- 1917–1922
- 1917–1922
- Italian post offices in Crete
- 1900–1912
- 1873–1923
- 1908–1923
- 1902–1916
- 1909–1911
- 1909–1911
- 1909–1915
- 1909–1911
- 1909–1916
- Palestine (Italian Post Offices) 1908–1914
- Japanese Post Abroad
- Brunei (Japanese Occupation) 1942–1945
- Burma (Japanese Occupation) 1942–1945
- 1941–1944
- 1941
- 1945 only
- 1941
- 1941–1943
- Japanese Taiwan (Formosa) 1945 only
- Java (Japanese Occupation) 1943–1945
- Kelantan (Japanese Occupation) 1942–1945
- Korea (Japanese Post Offices) 1900–1901
- 1942–1945
- Malaya (Japanese Occupation) 1942–1945
- Manchukuo 1932–1945
- Mengkiang (Japanese Occupation) 1942–1945
- 1941–1945
- North Borneo (Japanese Occupation) 1942–1945
- 1942–1945
- Sarawak (Japanese Occupation) 1942–1945
- 1941
- 1941
- 1942
- 1943–1945
- 1941
- 1941–1942
- 1942–1945
- 1900–1922
- 1942–1943
- Jordanian Post Abroad
- Egypt and Jordan 1948–1967
- North Korean Post Abroad
- 1950 only
- Polish Post Abroad
- 1920–1922
- 1919–1921
- 1924–1939
- 1942 only
- 1918 only
- 1941–1945
- Romanian Post Abroad
- 1919–1920
- 1896, 1919–1922/23
- 1919–1920
- 1919–1920
- 1919 only
- 1919 only
- 1896–1919
- Russian Post Abroad
- 1946–1948
- 1919 only
- Russian post offices abroad
- China (Russian Post Offices) 1899–1920
- Crete (Russian Post Offices) 1899 only
- Russian post offices in the Ottoman Empire 1863–1914
- 1879–1910
- 1909–1910
- 1909–1910
- 1909–1910
- 1909–1914
- 1909–1914
- 1909–1910
- 1909–1914
- 1909–1910
- 1909–1910
- Palestine (Russian Post Offices) 1868–1914
- Serbian Post Abroad
- 1919 only
- 1919 only
- 1919 only
- Spanish Post Abroad
- Andorra (Spanish Offices) 1928 –
- Morocco (Spanish Post Offices) 1903–1914
- Tangier (Spanish Post Offices) 1921–1957
- 1908–1909
- Thai Post Abroad
- 1943–1945
- Togo (Allied Occupation)
- Togo (Anglo-French Occupation) 1914–1919
- Turkish Post Abroad
- 1898 only
- US Post Abroad
- Guam (US Administration) 1899–1901
- 1867–1874
- 1919–1922
- 1899–1945
See also[]
- Extraterritorial Office of Exchange
- List of postal entities
- Articles about postal systems by country, postal organisations by country
Philately portal
References[]
Bibliography[]
- Stanley Gibbons Ltd, various catalogues
- Stanley Gibbons Ltd, Europe and Colonies 1970, Stanley Gibbons Ltd, 1969
- Rossiter, Stuart & John Flower. The Stamp Atlas. London: Macdonald, 1986. ISBN 0-356-10862-7
- XLCR Stamp Finder and Collector's Dictionary, Thomas Cliffe Ltd, c.1960
External links[]
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- Compendium of postage stamp issuers
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