Great Britain has introduced postal services throughout the world and has often made use of British definitives bearing local overprints. The following is a partial list of British postal services abroad. The list does not include agencies in South America, such as in Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro and Valparaiso.
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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
* Beirut (British Post Office) 1906 only
* British post offices in the Turkish Empire
British may refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies.
** Britishness, the British identity and common culture
* British English, ...
1885–1923
* British postal agencies in Eastern Arabia 1948–1966
* Bushire (British Occupation) 1915 only
* Cameroons (British Occupation) 1915 only
* China (British Post Offices) 1917–1930
* China (British Railway Administration) 1901 only
* Crete (British Post Offices) 1898–1899
* East Africa Forces 1943–1948
* British post in Egypt (Consular Offices) 1839–1882
* British post in Egypt (British Military Occupation) 1882–1914
* Egypt (British Forces) 1932–1943
* Eritrea (British Administration) 1950–1952
* Eritrea (British Military Administration) 1948–1950
* German East Africa (British Occupation) 1917 only
* Iraq (British Occupation) 1918–1923
* Japan (British Commonwealth Occupation) 1946–1949
* Japan (British Post Offices) 1859–1879
* Mafia Island (British Occupation) 1915–1916
* Malaya (British Military Administration) 1945–1948
* Middle East Forces (MEF) 1942–1947
* Morocco Agencies 1898–1957
* North Borneo (BMA) 1945 only
* Salonika (British Field Office) 1916 only
* Sarawak (BMA) 1945 only
* Somalia (British Administration) 1950 only
* Somalia (British Military Administration) 1948–1950
* 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 capi ...
1927–1957
* Tripolitania (British Administration) 1950–1952
* Tripolitania (British Military Administration) 1948–1950
* Uzunada, formerly Chustan Island (British Occupation) 1916 only
See also
* Postage stamps and postal history of Great Britain
Postage stamps and postal history of Great Britain surveys postal history from the United Kingdom and the postage stamps issued by that country and its various historical territories until the present day.
The postal history of the United King ...
References
Bibliography
* Proud, Edward B. ''The Postal History of the British Post Offices Abroad''. Heathfield, E.Sussex: Proud-Bailey Co. Ltd., 1991 551p.
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* Wood, Hugh W. ''British Post Offices Abroad: Display given to the Royal Philatelic Society London, 30th April 2009''. London: The Author, 2009 103p.
External links
AskPhil – Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms
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