✉️ For #WorldPostDay, discover how Jesuits used letters to share news, ideas, hopes and stories across the world.

Read our blog: “Jesuits and the Lost Art of Letter Writing”
www.jesuitarchives.co.uk/post/jesuits...

#EYA #LetterWriting #PostalHistory

We imagine the old dak as a man carrying a mailbag.
But behind him was an elaborate machinery - sometimes there was even a tiger.
My latest Past Imperfect is about that hidden machinery.

#PastImperfect #PostalHistory #IndianHistory

zeyaurrahmanshah.substack.com/p/payments-t...

The Making of China's Post Office: Sovereignty, Modernization, and the Connection of a Nation
Weipin Tsai
newbooksnetwork.com/the-making-o... #postalhistory #chinesehistory

Gambia: Scott #304–05

Commemorative pair issued in 1974 for the centenary of the Universal Postal Union, featuring symbolic global imagery and a portrait of President Dawda Jawara.

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#Stamps #StampCollecting #Philately #Gambia #UPU #PostalHistory

Keep sending postcards
#postalhistory #postcard #handwritten #wordsthat
#postbox