Post offices in Bahamas…

POST OFFICES &  LETTER BOXES IN BAHAMAS
                                                                                  - Sudhir Jain

First Post Office in Bahamas

Recently I had visited beautiful country Bahamas. Commonwealth of the Bahamas is a small country consisting of more than 2000 islands, out of which only 27 have life. It is located in the Atlantic Ocean north of Cuba, Orth west of the Turks and Calicos Islands, and southeast of the United States (nearest to the Florida).

Post Office at ship station, Nassau

It’s land area is only 13,939 km2 with a population of approx 35 lacs only. Nassau is the capital and Paradise Island is the biggest attraction. Tourist is the chief industry here.

 

Eleuthra Post office

Bahamas became a Crown Colony in 1718 and got independence in the year 1973.Bahamas has total 1234 Post Offices and apart from the Post Offices,Tourist kiosks also sell stamps.

GPO Nassau

Cable Beech Post office

Bahamian Dollar and Cent are the official currencies here but now-a-days US Dollar and US coins are more in use here. One Bahamian Dollar is equal to one US Dollar. Minimum postage for a letter or postcard for anywhere at Bahamas, USA,Canada & West Indies is $0.65 and for other countries $0.80. Use of British postage stamps began here in April 1858 and Bahamas issued its own stamps beginning 10 June 1859.

         

Bahamas letterbox New & old

 

New stamps on Gandhi from Mozambique

     

       

 

: Pradip Jain, Patna -  email : philapradip@gmail.com

Underwater Post Office at Bahamas

 

Underwater Post office….

- Sudhir Jain from Bahamas

Bahamas is the first country to have an underwater post office from the year 1939 to 1940. This seafloor post office was actually a submarine sphere used for filming underwater scenes. Basically meant for tourists, this seafloor post office allowed tourists to get a breathtaking view of marine sea life and send a souvenir postcard home with a special post mark “Sea Floor / Bahamas” printed on it.

Captain J.E Williamson started this underwater post office.  He was pioneer in undersea photography and also deeply involved in the production of a number of motion pictures under the Sea. His father invented a tube that could stretch to depths of 200 feet below the surface. Williamson himself added a round chamber with a thick glass window and used this chamber to take photographs of undersea creatures. In the year 1939, this photosphere
was transformed into an underwater post office by the name of "Sea Floor Bahamas." shortly in the year1940 it was closed.

In the year 1965, the Bahamas Postal department issued a definitive set. Williamson’s photosphere and the 1939 Sea Floor post office were depicted on the five-shilling denomination stamp of this set. The same pictures were used again in year 1966 and 1967 on new definitive stamps also.

 

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New Special Cover – UPHILEX - 2011

 

UPHILEX 2011 : 17 December 2011

On the second day of 10th UP Philatelic Exhibition, UPHILEX 2011 a special Cover featuring CPMG Building at Lucknow was issued . The cancellation shows logo of the exhibition.

 

CPMG Building , Lucknow

: Ashwani Dubey from Lucknow

Special Covers

West Bengal

Road Safety Week, Calcutta

28 - 2 March 1977

 

  : Ashwani Dubey - Gorakhpur

Special 11 .11.11 card from Malta Post…

Malta Post Philatelic Bureau has issued the eleventh Card in series on the date when the day, month and year coincided - 11.11.11.

Eleventh Card in series by Malta Post with 11.11.11. date

The first Card in this series had been issued on 1 January 2001, with a date stamp carrying the same figures - 01.01.01. The last Card in this popular collectable series is expected to be issued on 12th December of the year 2012, and stamped with the figures 12.12.12.

This Philatelic Bureau Card carries the €2.07 stamp from the set Malta - Iceland Joint Issue 2011:which was issued in September 2011 and has been numbered and cancelled with the "Fishing Villages" date impression 11.11.11.

The Card is available from Friday 11th November at all Post Offices in Malta and Gozo, from the Mobile Post Office and from the Philatelic Bureau.

Further information is available from the Malta Post Philatelic Bureau at www.maltaphilately.com or on Ph. 2596 1740.

La Poste also issued a special stamp on 11.11.11

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GUJPEX – 2011

Gujrat Postal Circle will organize a state level exhibition GUJPEX – 2011 at Akota Atithi Gruh ( opposite Akota Stadium, Akota Road ,Vadodara from 23 – 25 December 2011 . During the exhibition 6 special covers will be issued. Stamp Collectors from Gujarat state can participate in this exhibition. For more details contact :

Secretary

GUJPEX –2011

o/o Postmaster General

Vadodara Circle, Vadodara – 390002. Gujarat

Last date for entry form is 5 th Dec 2011.

: Prashant Pandya, Vadodara

List of Philatelic Bureaue in India

compiled by P Ramakrishnan , Chennai

Srlno	State	Place	Pin
1	ANDHRA	Hyderabad GPO	500001
2	ANDHRA	Kurnool HO	518001
3	ANDHRA	Vijayawada HO	521001
4	ANDHRA	Visakhapatnam H.O	530001
5	ASSAM	Guwahati G.P.O.	781001
6	BIHAR	Muzaffarpur H.O	842001
7	BIHAR	Patna G.P.O.	800001
8	CHATTISGARH	Bhilai 1 S.O	490001
9	CHATTISGARH	Bilaspur (Bilaspur-CGH) H.O	495001
10	CHATTISGARH	Raipur H.O	492001
11	DELHI	SANSAD MARG	110001
12	GUJARAT	AHMEDABAD	380001
13	GUJARAT	RAJKOT	360001
14	GUJARAT	VADODARA	390001
15	HARYANA	AMBALA	133001
16	HIMACHAL PRADESH	SHIMLA	171001
17	JAMMU AND KASHMIR	JAMMU	180001
18	JHARKHAND	JAMSHEDPUR	831001
19	KARNATAKA	BANGALORE	560001
20	KARNATAKA	BELGAUM	590001
21	KARNATAKA	MANGALORE	575001
22	KARNATAKA	MYSORE	570001
23	KERALA	CALICUT	673001
24	KERALA	ERNAKULAM	682011
25	KERALA	THIRUVANTHAPURAM	695001
26	KERALA	THRISSUR	680001
27	MADHYAPRADESH	BHOPAL	462001
28	MADHYAPRADESH	GWALIOR	474003
29	MADHYAPRADESH	INDORE	452001
30	MADHYAPRADESH	JABALPUR	482001
31	MAHARASHTRA	MUMBAI GPO	400001
32	MAHARASHTRA	NAGPUR	440001
33	MAHARASHTRA	NASIK	422001
34	MAHARASHTRA	PANAJI	403001
35	MAHARASHTRA	PUNE	411001
36	NORTH EAST	AGARTALA	799001
37	NORTH EAST	AIZAWL	796001
38	NORTH EAST	IMPHAL	795001
39	NORTH EAST	KOHIMA	797001
40	NORTH EAST	SHILLONG	793001
41	ORISSA	BHUBANESWAR	751001
42	ORISSA	CUTTACK	753001
43	PUNJAB	AMRITSAR	143001
44	PUNJAB	CHANDIGARH	160017
45	PUNJAB	JALANDHAR	144001
46	PUNJAB	LUDHIANA	141001
47	PUNJAB	PATIALA	147001
48	RAJASTHAN	AJMER	305001
49	RAJASTHAN	JAIPUR	302001
50	RAJASTHAN	JODHPUR	342001
51	RAJASTHAN	UDAIPUR SHASTRI	313001
52	TAMILNADU	CHENNAI HO	600001
53	TAMILNADU	COIMBATORE	641001
54	TAMILNADU	MADURAI	625001
55	TAMILNADU	PONDICHERRY	605001
56	TAMILNADU	TIRUCHIRAPPALI	620001
57	UTTARPRADESH	AGRA	282001
58	UTTARPRADESH	ALLAHABAD	211001
59	UTTARPRADESH	KANPUR	208001
60	UTTARPRADESH	LUCKNOW	226001
61	UTTARPRADESH	VARANASI	221001
62	UTTARANCHAL	DEHRADUN	248001
63	WEST BENGAL	KOLKATTA	700001
64	WEST BENGAL	PORT BLAIR	744101
65	WEST BENGAL	SILIGURI	734001
66	APS	1 CBPO	900056
67	APS	2 CBPO	900099

China opens first 'space post office'….

 

 

Hi ! Today is eid ul zuha  ! Greetings to all on this festive occasion. Here is an interesting news about Space Post office, set up by China Post…just read this special news…Today is also the birth anniversary of madam Curie. Philatelic Tributes to the great scientist, Madam  Curie !! More news for coin collectors……This is all for  today… Have a nice time !!

Space Post Office

In this era of Facebook, email, Twitter and other social media, getting a postcard from someone's travels has a certain appeal.China's mail service looks to be taking that tourist postcard to a whole new level.

To celebrate  docking of the Shenzhou-8 unmanned spacecraft with space lab module Tiangong-1, China's post authority has opened a new branch office outside the country and out of this world -- 343 kilometers above the Earth, to be exact.

Opening for business on the same day, the China Post Space Office has two venues -- one on-the-ground base inside the Beijing Aerospace Command and Control Center (BACCC) and one "virtual office" aboard the Shenzhou-8 spacecraft. There is also a new designated post code -- 901001.

China Post Group’s general manager Li Guohua told China Daily the post office will be able to deliver mail from the public to astronauts in future. The office will also issue postal souvenirs, such as stamps and envelopes that depict China's major space program events.

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Today is Birth Anniversary of Marie Curie

 

Marie Skłodowska Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934)

The United Nations  proclaimed 2011 the International Year of Chemistry. To commemorate this event the French Post  issued a stamp dedicated to  Marie Curie.

Marie Curie : Polish - French physicist–chemist famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes in physics and chemistry. She was the first female professor at the University of Paris.

Stamps issued this year for International Year Chemistry featuring Marie Curie

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Philatelic Numismatic & Heritage Fair at Indore

 

Cover with date 1.11.11

 

Registered cover with 1.11.11 date

Atul Agarwal, Aligarh

Just recd these covers from my friends. Many thanks to Atul Agarwal and Charles Jensen.

Cover from USA

Charles Jensen, Florida – USA

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This is Speed Post Service or Slow Post Service of India Post ?????

This is just to draw the attention of all regarding Poor Speed Post service of India Post . I sent my exhibits for SINE, a national stamp exhibition   to Mr Madhukar Jhingan, Paschim Vihar, New Delhi from Bhuntar Sub Post Office Kullu on 31st October 2011. As per Speed Post  tracking record the article reached New Delhi on 2nd November. But it was not delivered to the addressee on 2nd November. In fact there was no transaction on 3rd and 4th November. On 5th November the article was bagged for Paschim Vihar PO and still it is doubtful whether it was delivered to the addressee today.

Is it a reliable service of which  India Post boasts of ????? Due to negligence of the Postal Department my exhibits could not reach the destination and it could not be displayed as the exhibition started from from 3rd  November 2011.

Who is responsible for this delay ….. ??? The concerned post office must give a clear explanation for this delay . Why was the article not delivered on the date it reached New Delhi. It was not sent either on 3rd or 4th November.   It caused  lot of inconvenience and  my exhibits  could not be displayed in the exhibition.

Being a philatelist I am highly disappointed that due to negligence and poor working of India Post my exhibits were deprived from participation in the exhibition….  What about if it was someone’s admit card for examination or interview letter for a job ??????  How India Post justifies its working ???

- Jeevan Jyoti, Kullu (HP)

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