The Stamps of Afghanistan

    

Afghanistan

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Date: 1870-present
Stamp issuing status: {active inactive}
Reference: {UN WFB WIKI} >

Capital City: Kabul
Currency
    (1870) 3 abasi = 1 rupee
    (1920) 60 paisa = 1 rupee
    (1926) 100 pouls = 1 afghani

Postal History Timeline:

The first postal arrangements in Afghanistan are credited to Sher Ali Khan, who established a postal service in the 1860s as part of a program to modernize the country. In the late 1970s, it had grown into one of the stronger regional postal services, able to send and receive letters from anywhere in the world.

Timeline

  • 1870 s: Establishment of Balahisar Post office in Kabul and a post office in the center of each province of the country serving Primary Postal Services Affairs and Postal Stamps.
  • 1892: A Post Office near Arg was established.
  • 1918: General Directorship of Post and Telegraph & Telephone was included in the Organization of the Interior Ministry.
  • 1918: A Post office was established in each of the big cities.
  • 1925: International post services began between Afghanistan and British India via Torkham.
  • 1928: General Directorship of Post and Telegraph & Telephone becomes and Independent Administration.
  • 1928: Afghanistan became of a member of the Universal Postal Union.
  • 1928: After having joined the Universal Postal Union and some other individual company agreement were signed.
  • 1929: Post is conveyed towards Torkham and Kandahar by vehicles.
  • 1929: Various type of deliveries such as letters, postcards, newspapers, magazine and other printed materials as well as parcels are made inside and outside of the country.
  • 1934: Title of the post administration from General Directorship of Telephone and Telegraph was changed into the Department of Telephone and Telegraph, and later on it was elevated to the Ministry of Communication.
  • 1973: Law of postal services was amended.

During the 1990s, the Afghan postal service was suspended due to a civil war in the country. Sending a letter usually meant having to find someone traveling in the direction of the recipient willing to carry a note and hoping for the best. It gradually began to develop in the mid 2000s during the presidency of Hamid Karzai.

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  • See also
    • British Postal Agencies in Eastern Arabia
    • Trucial States
    • United Arab Emirates (UAE)
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3¢ Red on White - Thorp 1 - UPSS 1

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