U.S. Special Delivery was a postal service paid for with additional postage for urgent letters and postal packets which are delivered in less time than by standard or first class mail service. Its mea
Special Delivery badges
Special Delivery stamp on cover
First Special Delivery stamps (two types)
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The Universal Postal Union is a specialized agency of the United Nations that coordinates postal policies among member nations and facilitates a uniform worldwide postal system. It has 192 member stat
U.S. Special Delivery (postal service)
…office responsible for delivering it, rather than waiting for the next regular delivery to the addressee. The U.S. Post Office in conjunction with the Universal Postal Union established a basis for a special service for speedier delivery of mail for an extra fee beginning in 1885. Special Delivery was at first limited to…
The UPU Monument (Weltpostdenkmal) in Bern, bronze and granite, by René de Saint-Marceaux (1909), the five continents join to transmit messages around the globe, later adopted (1967) as the organization's logo
Heinrich von Stephan, German Postmaster-General and founder of the General Postal Union
100 years of UPU commemorated on a US postage stamp