Universal Postal Union
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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
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
Mail
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The mail, or post, is a system for physically transporting postcards, letters, and parcels. A postal service can be private or public, though many governments place restrictions on private systems. Si
A postman collecting mail for delivery in Hong Kong, 2008
Many early post systems consisted of fixed courier routes, as seen in this 1832 depiction of a post house on a route in Finland.
The use of adhesive stamps and sealing wax to signify prepayment of postage began with the Scinde Dawk of British India on 1 July 1852, as part of a comprehensive reform of the postal system in Scinde under the East India Company.
Chinese postage stamp: 4-cent on 100-dollar silver overprint of 1949