In the latter part of the 19th and early part of the 20th century, a number of countries maintained

post office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post offices may offer additional serv ...

s 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 : Romania (Austrian Occupation) 1917–1918 : Serbia (Austrian Occupation) 1916 only : Austro-Hungarian Post in China 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 : Eupen and Malmedy (Belgian Occupation) 1920 only : German East Africa (Belgian Occupation) 1916–1918 : Germany (Belgian Occupation) 1919–1920 ;British Post Abroad : British post offices abroad :

British post offices in Africa The British post offices in Africa were a system of post offices set up by the United Kingdom to be used by its Middle East Forces and East Africa Forces in Africa during and after World War II. Middle East Forces Definitive British stamps w ...

Tangier Tangier ( ; ; ar, طنجة, Ṭanja) is a city in northwestern Morocco. It is on the Moroccan coast at the western entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar, where the Mediterranean Sea meets the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Spartel. The town is the cap ...

1927–1957 : Tripolitania (British Military Administration or British Administration) 1948–1952 ;Chinese Post Abroad : Chinese post offices in Tibet 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 – : Arad (French Occupation) 1919 only : Castelrosso (French Occupation) 1920–1921 : Cilicia (French Occupation) 1918–1921 : Ethiopia (French Post Offices) 1906–1908 : Japan (French Post Offices) 1865–1880 :

Klaipėda Klaipėda (; ; german: Memel; pl, Kłajpeda; russian: Клайпеда; sgs, Klaipieda) is a city in Lithuania on the Baltic Sea coast. The capital of the eponymous county, it is the third largest city and the only major seaport in Lithuan ...

1923 only : Korce (Koritza) 1917–1919 : Madagascar (French Post Offices) 1885–1896 : Majunga (French Post Office) 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 The French post offices abroad were a global network of post offices in foreign countries established by France to provide mail service where the local services were deemed unsafe or unreliable. They were generally set up in cities with some sort ...

Postage of the Free French Forces in the Levant The mail or post is a system for physically transporting postcards, letter (message), letters, and parcel (package), parcels. A postal service can be private or public, though many governments place restrictions on private systems. Since the mid ...

German post offices in the Ottoman Empire The German post offices abroad were a network of post offices in foreign countries established by Germany to provide mail service where the local services were deemed unsafe or unreliable. They were generally set up in cities with some sort of ...

1884–1914 : Postage of German Occupation Forces (WWI) 1914–1918 : Postage of German Occupation Forces (WWII) 1939–1945 : Eastern Command Area 1916–1918 : Western Command Area 1916–1918 : Palestine (German Post Offices) 1898–1914 ;Germany (Allied Occupation) : Baden (French Zone) 1947–1949 : Postage of Berlin-Brandenburg in the Russian Zone 1945 only :

Postage of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in the Russian Zone 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. Since the mid-19th century, national postal syst ...

1945–1946 :

Postage of North West Saxony in the Russian Zone The mail or post is a system for physically transporting postcards, letter (message), letters, and parcel (package), parcels. A postal service can be private or public, though many governments place restrictions on private systems. Since the mid ...

Italian post offices in Africa Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance language *** Regional Ita ...

Manchukuo Manchukuo, officially the State of Manchuria prior to 1934 and the Empire of (Great) Manchuria after 1934, was a puppet state of the Empire of Japan in Northeast China, Manchuria from 1932 until 1945. It was founded as a republic in 1932 afte ...

Polish Government in Exile The Polish government-in-exile, officially known as the Government of the Republic of Poland in exile ( pl, Rząd Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej na uchodźstwie), was the government in exile of Poland formed in the aftermath of the Invasion of Pola ...

1941–1945 ;Romanian Post Abroad : Banat Bacska (Romanian Occupation) 1919–1920 : Constantinople (Romanian Post Office) 1896, 1919–1922/23 : Debrecen (Romanian Occupation) 1919–1920 : Hungary (Romanian Occupation) 1919–1920 : Temesvar (Romanian Occupation) 1919 only : Transylvania (Romanian Occupation) 1919 only : Romanian post offices in the Turkish Empire 1896–1919 ;Russian Post Abroad : North Korea (Russian Occupation) 1946–1948 : South Lithuania (Russian Occupation) 1919 only :

Russian post offices abroad The Russian post offices abroad were established by Russia between the late 18th and early 20th centuries to handle mail service where the local service was deemed unreliable. The first such were the Russian post offices in the Ottoman (Turkish) ...

: China (Russian Post Offices) 1899–1920 : Crete (Russian Post Offices) 1899 only :

Russian post offices in the Ottoman Empire The Russian post offices in the Ottoman Empire were a set of post offices operated by Russia in various cities of the Ottoman Empire from the late 18th century until September 1914. Earliest mails The earliest mail service between St Petersburg ...

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Stanley Gibbons The Stanley Gibbons Group plc is a company quoted on the London Stock Exchange specialising in the retailing of collectable postage stamps and similar products. The group is incorporated in London. The company is a major stamp dealer and philat ...

Ltd, various catalogues *

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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