Palestine Post

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government agency postal service

The Palestine Post was the postal service operating in the British Mandate of Palestine, responsible for mail delivery, stamps, and related communications infrastructure during the mandate period.

Aliases (1)

Mandate Palestine postage stamps ×1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	government agency → postal service →
collectingField	philately of Palestine →
country	British Mandate of Palestine →
dissolvedFollowing	end of British Mandate in Palestine →
endTime	around 1948 →
headquartersLocation	Jerusalem →
historicalRole	linking towns and rural areas in Mandate Palestine through mail services →
industry	postal services →
mainProduct	postage stamps → postal stationery →
notableFor	Mandate Palestine postage stamps → postmarks and cancellations of Mandate-era Palestine →
operatedInTerritory	British Mandate of Palestine →
operatedPostOfficesIn	Acre → Beersheba → Gaza → Haifa → Jaffa → Jerusalem → Lydda → Nablus → Safed → Tiberias →
operatedUnderAuthorityOf	British Mandate authorities → British colonial administration →
operationalPeriod	British Mandate period →
parentOrganization	Government of Palestine (British Mandate) →
partOf	communications infrastructure of the British Mandate of Palestine →
regulatedBy	British postal regulations →
replacedBy	Egyptian postal service in the Gaza Strip → Israel Postal Service → Jordanian postal service in the West Bank →
responsibleFor	cancellation marks → issuance of postage stamps → mail delivery infrastructure → post offices → postal rates → postal regulations → postal routes →
serviceType	mail delivery → money orders → parcel delivery → postal communications → telegraph services →
startTime	British Mandate era (approx. early 1920s) →
usedCurrencyOnStamps	Palestine pound →
usedLanguagesOnStamps	Arabic → English → Hebrew →

Referenced by (2)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Palestine Post ("Mandate Palestine postage stamps") →	notableFor
British Mandate for Palestine →	postalAuthority