Universal Postal Union
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Universal Postal Union (UPU) - the UPU or Union Postale Universelle (its official title) originated and was first organized by Dr.
Universal Postal Union: An international organization formed in 1874, to regulate and standardize postal usage and to facilitate the movement of mail between member nations.
Unused: A stamp which is not cancelled as it is not used as postage.
Universal Postal Union: An international organization formed in Bern, Switzerland, in 1874, to regulate and standardize postal usage and to facilitate the movement of mail between member nations. Today, most nations belong to the UPU.
Universal Postal Union regulations allowed paid-reply postal cards mailed to foreign countries to be posted without additional postage when franked with the correct foreign rate amount in their country of origin.
Universal Postal Union (U.P.U.)
Established in 1874, the U.P.U. successfully established one set of international postal rates.
Definition of the Universal Postal Union
Want List
Literally a list of the stamp collector's wants.
Abonnements-Poste: (Fr.) subscriptions for newspaper do not require postage stamps; Universal Postal Union regulation.
Abono(s): (Sp.) marking on early covers indicating that postage was prepaid to destination.
At one time, Universal Postal Union regulations required that stamps used on international mail have Arabic numerals showing their home-currency value, so some U.S. stamps had to be modified to comply with that rule.
Aerogramme: The official Universal Postal Union designation for an air letter sheet. These sheets, with gummed flaps, are written on and folded into themselves to form their own envelope and are carried at less than the letter airmail rate.
UPU - abbreviation for the Universal Postal Union. Originally known as the General Postal Union (established in 1874 and renamed in 1878), the Universal Postal Union coordinates postal policies among member nations.
Dr. Heinrich von Stephan, father of the Universal Postal Union.
Stamps of Nigeria, Indonesia and San Marino commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Universal Postal Union.
Instead the profile of the monarch appears on British stamps. The Universal Postal Union allows this because Britain was the first country to issue stamps.
The first post offices in America were bags hung in taverns.
One is the List of Chiefs of the Postal Administrations and the Superior Functionaries (Liste des Chefs des Administrations postales et des Fonctionnaires superieurs) available from the Bureau Internationale of the Universal Postal Union in Berne, ...
The first handful of Indian postage stamps were actually commemorative stamps such as the 1949 Universal Postal Union 75th anniversary stamp, the Mahatma Gandhi 1948 memorial stamps.
Unissued - Stamp prepared for postal use but which are not issued.
Universal Postal Union (UPU) - An international organization which regulates postal usage and aides in moving mail among its member nations.
"Specimen". Stamp or stationery overprinted "Specimen" and distributed to member countries of the Universal Postal Union.
In 1875 the General Postal Union was formed to strengthen postal relations between nations. The membership grew so quickly that in a period of three years its name was changed to Universal Postal Union (UPU) in 1878.
The first use of paper within a pane to convey something other than textual messages was the 1978 CAPEX souvenir sheet, which featured both the CAPEX 78 logo as well as the logo of the Universal Postal Union.
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Forwarding Agent - a person or entity, usually in a foreign city, who sends a piece of mail entrusted to him on to an addressee in the most expeditious manner. This was a service made obsolete by the formation of the Universal Postal Union.
 See also: Stamp, Used, Internat, Cover, Philatelic
  
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