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Qing dynasty. Although postal service in China goes back some 2,500 years, modern postal services were not established until 1877 by the Qing government. This 1-candareen stamp of 1885 has an unidentified seal cancellation and a postmark from the French post office in Shanghai. A 1/2-cent value of the 1897 issue, lithographed in Japan.
China Post Group Corporation. China Post, officially the China Post Group Corporation, [4] is the national postal service corporation of the People's Republic of China. It is incorporated as a state-owned enterprise. China Post shares its office with the sub-ministry-level government agency State Post Bureau, which regulates the national postal ...
The French post offices in China were among the post offices maintained by foreign powers in China from the mid-19th century until 1922. The first civilian French Post Office in Shanghai, China opened in 1862. Initially, the French government used ordinary French postage stamps e.g. Napoleon III, Laureated Empire, Ceres and Sage issues for ...
British post offices in China. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the United Kingdom set up a system of post offices in various treaty ports of China. Overprinted Hong Kong stamp, 1917. As a consequence of the Treaty of Nanking of 29 August 1842, Great Britain opened five consular postal agencies on 16 April 1844.
Hokkien POJ. Tiong-hôa-iû-chèng-kó͘-hūn-iú-hān-kong-si. Chunghwa Post Co., Ltd. is the official postal service of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Chunghwa Post was a government agency of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications until 2003, when it was reorganized into a government-owned corporation. Chunghwa Post Jinshan Building.
General Post Office Building viewed from the east General Post Office in 1994. The General Post Office Building (Chinese: 上海邮政总局大楼) is the head post office of Shanghai, China. Built in 1924, the four-story building is located at 395 Tiandong Road, at the north end of the Sichuan Road Bridge, on the banks of the Suzhou Creek. [1]
Hongkong Post is a government department of Hong Kong responsible for postal services, though operated as a trading fund. Founded in 1841, it was known as Postal Department or Post Office[2] (Chinese: 郵政署) before the handover of Hong Kong in 1997. It has been a sub-member of the Universal Postal Union since 1877, and is a separate entity ...
Postal romanization[1] was a system of transliterating place names in China developed by postal authorities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. For many cities, the corresponding postal romanization was the most common English-language form of the city's name from the 1890s until the 1980s, when postal romanization was replaced by pinyin ...