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.

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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

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

1917–1922

Italian post offices in Crete

1900–1912

1873–1923

1908–1923

1902–1916

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

1909–1914

1909–1910

1909–1914

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

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

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