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A 1937 diamond-shaped stamp of Costa Rica. This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Costa Rica. Costa Rica is a country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the east and south, the Pacific Ocean to the west and south and the Caribbean Sea to the east.
The Society of Costa Rica Collectors (SOCORICO) (founded 1963) is an international philatelic society dedicated to the study of the postage stamps and postal history of Costa Rica. SOCORICO is affiliate No. 96 of the American Philatelic Society. [1] The society journal, The Oxcart, has been published since 1960 and succeeded the Costa Rican ...
The first stamps of the Venezuela were issued on 1 January 1859. [1] Venezuela supported its territorial claim in the Venezuela Crisis of 1895 by printing an 1896 postage stamp with a map showing Guyana up to the east bank of the Essequibo River as "Guayana Venezolana". Guyana years later responded with a series of overprints “ESSEQUIBO IS ...
Dionisio de Herrera, head of state of Honduras and head of state of Nicaragua (1971) Rubén Odio H., archbishop of San José (1962) Vicente Herrera Zeledón, president of Costa Rica, 1876-77 (1946, 1961) Rowland Hill, postal reformer and originator of the postage stamp (1979)
A 1981 stamp marking the 20th anniversary of the Napoleon Museum in Havana. This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Cuba. Cuba is an island country in the Caribbean Sea. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the ...
However, this legislation was set to expire in April 2016. As a result, the Post Office retained one cent of the price change as a previously allotted adjustment for inflation, but the price of a first-class stamp became 47 cents: for the first time in 97 years (and for the fourth time in the agency's history) the price of a stamp decreased ...
The establishment of Correos de Costa Rica gained momentum with the Costa Rican constitution of 1824, which mandates that the Congress of the Republic must open roads and carry posts and general mail. On December 10, 1839, via government decree, the first rulebook for mail was drafted and the “Servicio Nacional de Correos” was created.
A privately run packet service for mail existed in British Guiana in 1796, and continued for a number of years. Postage stamps of Britain were used in those days at Georgetown (Demerara) and Berbice. The first adhesive stamps produced by British Guiana were issued in 1850. British Guiana is famous among philatelists for its early postage stamps ...