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  2. Postage stamps and postal history of Singapore - Wikipedia

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    History. 1892 Straits Settlements stamp. A postal service had been available in Singapore since the contemporary city was founded by Stamford Raffles in 1819. Postal services were first directly organised in Singapore in 1826, and from 1829 rectangular postmarks began to be used on local correspondence.

  3. History of United States postage rates - Wikipedia

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    Postal rates to 1847. Initial United States postage rates were set by Congress as part of the Postal Service Act signed into law by President George Washington on February 20, 1792. The postal rate varied according to "distance zone", the distance a letter was to be carried from the post office where it entered the mail to its final destination.

  4. Postal codes in Singapore - Wikipedia

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    Singapore 52 0 147. Blk 147 Tampines Avenue 5. Singapore 52 1 147. Similarly, for a HDB residential block sharing the same number as another block in the same postal sector, but have an added suffix behind are differentiated by their postal codes as follows: Blk 150 Bishan Street 11. Singapore 57 0 150.

  5. Next Singaporean general election - Wikipedia

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    The date was confirmed as 15 May 2024 in an announcement on 15 April 2024; Lee stepped down his post and passed his premier to Wong on that day. The new cabinet was also announced, with Gan Kim Yong promoted as the next-in-line Deputy Prime Minister and Lee conferred as a Senior Minister, [21] though changes to the cabinet were minor until the ...

  6. Reserves of the Government of Singapore - Wikipedia

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    As of 2023, the total size of the reserves has been estimated to be at least S$ 2.5 trillion (2024) ( US$ 1.87 trillion ), based on publicly available data from GIC, [a] Temasek, [b] MAS, [c] and CPF, [d] among others. It is generally assumed that Singapore's reserves are far-reaching and significant. However, the Government has consistently ...

  7. List of banned video games by country - Wikipedia

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    The game was removed from the List of Media Harmful to Young People in May 2024. [87] Dead Rising: Originally banned by the district court of Hamburg in 2007 for violating German Criminal Code section 131 (depictions of violence). [88] [89] The ban was lifted in February 2018 [90] but remains on the List of Media Harmful to Young People. [91 ...

  8. Stamp prices just went up again. Here’s what the U.S. Postal ...

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    Single-piece letter (extra ounce): 20 cents to 24 cents. Metered mail one-ounce: 53 cents to 57 cents. Postcard stamp: 40 cents to 44 cents. One-ounce letter (international): $1.30 to $1.40. A new ...

  9. Postage stamps and postal history of Canada - Wikipedia

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    The postal and philatelic history of Canada concerns postage of the territories which have formed Canada. Before Canadian confederation, the colonies of British Columbia and Vancouver Island, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Newfoundland issued stamps in their own names. The postal history falls into four major periods ...