An international reply coupon (IRC) is a coupon that can be exchanged for one or more postage stamps representing the minimum postage for an unregistered priority airmail letter of up to twenty grams sent to another Universal Postal Union (UPU) member country. IRCs are accepted by all UPU member countries.
The Universal Postal Union is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) that coordinates postal policies among member nations and facilitates a uniform worldwide postal system. It comprises 192 member states and is headquartered in Bern, Switzerland.
Franking comprises all devices, markings, or combinations thereof ("franks") applied to mails of any class which qualifies them to be postally serviced. Types of franks include uncanceled and precanceled postage stamps, impressions applied via postage meter, official use "Penalty" franks, Business Reply Mail (BRM), and other permit Imprints (Indicia), manuscript and facsimile "franking privilege" signatures, "soldier's mail" markings, and any other forms authorized by the 192 postal administrations that are members of the Universal Postal Union.
.post is a sponsored top-level domain (STLD) available exclusively for the postal sector, and is secured by DNSSEC. The domain aims to integrate the physical, financial and electronic dimensions of postal services to enable and facilitate e-post, e-finance, e-commerce and e-government services. ICANN approved the domain on April 8, 2005, as a sponsored TLD in the second group of new TLD applications evaluated in 2004.
Express mail is an expedited mail delivery service for which the customer pays a premium for faster delivery. Express mail is a service for domestic and international mail, and is in most nations governed by the country's own postal administration. Since 1999, the international express delivery services are governed by the EMS Cooperative.
A Digital Postmark (DPM) is a technology that applies a trusted time stamp issued by a postal operator to an electronic document, validates electronic signatures, and stores and archives all non-repudiation data needed to support a potential court challenge. It guarantees the certainty of date and time of the postmarking. This global standard was renamed the Electronic Postal Certification Mark (EPCM) in 2007 shortly after a new iteration of the technology was developed by Microsoft and Poste Italiane. The key addition to the traditional postmarking technology was integrity of the electronically postmarked item, meaning any kind of falsification and tampering will be easily and definitely detected.
La Poste is a postal service company in France, operating in Metropolitan France, the five French overseas departments and regions and the overseas collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon. Under bilateral agreements, La Poste also has responsibility for mail services in Monaco through La Poste Monaco and in Andorra alongside the Spanish company Correos.
Mobile post offices deliver mail and other postal services through specially equipped vehicles, such as trucks and trains.
La Poste Burkina Faso, formerly SONAPOST until 2018, is the company responsible for postal service in Burkina Faso. Established on 28 April 1997, it has the same tasks as the former National Post Office (ONP), the national postal company resulting from the split between the post office and telecommunications functions of the government in February 1987. Burkina Faso is a member of the West African Postal Conference.
CAMPOST is the company responsible for postal service in Cameroon.
Office national des postes du Mali is the company responsible for postal service in Mali.
La Poste du Togo is the company responsible for postal service in Togo.
La Poste is the company responsible for postal service in Côte d'Ivoire. Côte d'Ivoire is a member of the West African Postal Conference.
This is an article about the postage stamps and postal history of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Egypt.
Office national de postes (ONP) is French for "national post office", and may refer to:
The Caribbean Postal Union (CPU) is an association established by treaty of the postal authorities of the following member countries: The bloc was established with the assistance of the European Union for member-states of CARIFORUM as part of the bloc of the African, Caribbean, and Pacific Group of States.
