Mauritius Post

The Post office Mauritian , Mauritius Post is one of the oldest institutions of the island Maurice. It counts 101 offices with Maurice, five with Rodrigues and with Agaléga, handles 70 million letters per annum and 20.000 dispatched parcels with Maurice and abroad.

History

Pierre Nicolas Lambert, printer of the King, introduced the postal service into the island in 1772. He published a weekly newspaper and guaranteed to his subscribed readers free distribution in residence of their mails room with their newspaper. The service with the subscribers included sends it parcels abroad and the free distribution of the mails external six to eight hours after the arrival of a ship. The not-subscribers were to discharge a fixed price to profit as of these services.

After the catch of the island by the British in 1810, the postal service degraded considerably. The strict minimum was ensured to deliver the mail coming from outside. It is only into 1834 that the colonial government reinstalled the post office in the island following various protests. May 19th, 1834 an experimental postal service came into effect between Port Louis and Mahébourg, once by week, saturdays. The return of the mail was made Mondays according to.

In 1840, the postal Réforme of the English Sir Rowland Hill introduced the postage stamp and generalized the port paid by the shipper. Adopted by several countries, the postage stamp appears in 1847 in Maurice, who was thus the first British colony to be equipped on a local initiative about it.

The Ordinance No 13 of 1846, described the Post office as the bank of saving of the government Mauritian and placed it under the control of the Accountant General . The central office was located with the building of the Treasury (current office of the Prime Minister) and nine offices were opened, one in each district. The Ordinance No 57 of 1950 placed the postal services under the authority of the Department of the Stations and Télégraphes and was famous Mauritius Post Office Savings Bank. Management was entrusted to the Postmaster-General .

Since August 1st, 2003, the organization is known like the Mauritius Post & Cooperative Bank following the fusion of the Post office and the late Coopérative bank, followed privatization.

The stamps posts

In 1846, the Ordinance No 13 , governing the postage rates in the island was to promulgate. September 21st, 1847, emitted Mauritius two stamps posts, engraved and printed in Port Louis by Joseph Osmond Barnard. There were five hundred stamps orange red One Penny and five hundred Two Pence blue. Only fifteen specimen of the first (including two unused) and twelve of the second (including four unused) survived the test of time. Two of the stamps ever used, are exposed to the Blue Penny Museum in Port Louis.

The stamps Post Office of 1847 are among most famous and most expensive in the world nowadays. Other stamps posts famous, locally printed are:

Barnard Post Paid of 1848 with 1858
Lapirot Post Paid of 1859
Sherwin Post Paid of 1859
the lithographers Dardennes of 1859

Nowadays the Post office emits on average twenty stamps posts per annum.

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