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Forgery reference

• Philatelic fakes and forgeries
• 1932 Australia 2d Sydney Harbour Bridge
• 13c US Liberty Bell
• GB 1/- Stock Exchange

Austrian Post

Österreichische Post AG

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Headquarters	Vienna, Austria
Key people	(CEO) (Chairman)
Products	Mail
Website	post.at

1563 postal routes from Austria

Österreichische Post AG is the postal authority of Austria.

History

The first standardised postal service was set up between Innsbruck and Mechelen, Belgium in 1490. By 1563 an extensive system of mail routes existed connecting Vienna with cities in Belgium, France, Italy, Spain and Portugal. In 1722 In Emperor Charles VI made the postal service a government monopoly and by the mid-18th century passenger carrying mail coach service began.

During the 1800s letter boxes, money orders, cash-on-delivery services were introduced and a pneumatic mail system was setup in Vienna in 1875.

Austrian stamps overprinted "FLUGPOST" for the 1918 Vienna, Kraków and Lviv flights

The first regular international airmail route between Vienna, Kraków and Lviv was established on March 31, 1918 and terminated on October 15. Three definitive stamps were overprinted "FLUGPOST" for this flight and showed that a regular airmail delivery was feasible even during wartime. Many philatelists consider this regular post delivery with airplanes to be the actual start of airmail history.

Postal codes were introduced nationwide in 1966.

Philately

Though not in general use until 80 years later, in 1787 the first postmarks were introduced in 1787 by Georg Khumer, a postmaster in Friesach identifying time and place of use, and Austria's first postage stamps were issued in 1850.

Services

Since 1986 Österreichische Post started Express mail services and is an EMS Cooperative contracted delivery agent within the UPU.

See also

• Austrian post offices in Crete
• Austrian post offices in Liechtenstein
• Austrian post offices in the Ottoman Empire
• List of people on stamps of Austria
• Postage stamps and postal history of Austria
• Postal codes in Austria

External links

• Official website

Master of the King's Postes

• Brian Tuke 1509–1545
• John Mason 1545–1566 and William Paget
• Thomas Randolph 1566– (d 1590)
• John Stanhope 1590–1621
• Charles Stanhope 1621–1637
• Thomas Witherings (d 1651) and William Frizell 1632– (Postmaster for Foreign Parts)
• Philip Burlamachi 1640–1642 - Thomas Witherings' position in sequestration
• Earl of Warwick Inland PMG - Thomas Witherings (d 1651) - Foreign PMG
• Edmund Prideaux 1649– (d 1659)
• John Manley 1653–1655
• John Thurloe 1655–1660
• Benjamin Worsley 1660
• Thomas Scott 1660

(*Philip Froude 1678–1688)

• GPO - PMG's & Secretaries
• Postmasters General BPMA

Some Limerick stuff

A post office was first opened in 1653 as a head office and postal services are now provided by An Post

Mail addressed to Limerick was recovered from raids by the IRA is known, and where possible, returned to the addressee to which a gummed label was affixed stating: Stolen by Raiders and tampered with.

Ireland foreign relations table

Africa

County	Type	Year	Irish representation	Year
Egypt	Embassy Dublin	1978	Embassy—Cairo Honorary consulate—Alexandria
Ethiopia	Embassy Dublin	1994	Embassy—Addis Ababa	1994
South Africa	Embassy Dublin	1995	Embassy—Pretoria Consulate-General—Cape Town	1994
Zambia	High Commissioner London	1965	Embassy—Lusaka	1965

Americas

County	Type	Year	Irish representation	Year
Colombia	Embassy London	?	Embassy Mexico City Honorary Colsulate—Bogota	?

Ireland table

Province	Population	Area (km²)	Largest city
Connacht	503,083	17,713	Galway
Leinster	2,292,939	19,774	Dublin
Munster	1,172,170	24,608	Cork
Ulster	1,993,918	24,481	Belfast

According to the political compass this user is Economic Left (-8.12) and Social Libertarian (-4.41).

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Rare stamps infobox

Red Penny or Blue Penny
A Mauritian Blue Penny
Country of production	British Empire
Location of production	Mauritius
Date of production	20 September 1847
Nature of rarity	Produced outside of UK and with wrong wording
Face value	Red: one penny Blue: two penny

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• Commons:Stamps/Public domain

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Irish infoboxes

John Steinbeck stamp image

May 2009 deletion request

In most instance where stamps are not being used correctly in biographic article, removal of the stamp from the article and then marking as an orphan has been efficient but I have no problem in discussion this in depth and even bring it to WP:IfD where more expert editors can weigh in. If no reliable third parties have written about the stamp in relation to John Steinbeck himself then it should not be included and we may even be supporting original research by assigning the stamp some importance in the biography.

The improper use of non-free stamp images has been discussed at various places before and deletion sweeps have been made to remove such uses, including those in some rather high profile people's biographies. These administrator noticeboard discussions prove this is an ongoing problem that needs addressing regularly: Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive54#Stamps wrongly claimed as Fair use: serious copyright problem, Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive59#Fair use stamps: revisitied ..., Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive62#Orphaned non-free stamp images and Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive165#Invalid fair use of stamps: Admin.2Fbot action required. This January 2008 IfD page clearly demonstrated that even though some editors disagreed with the deletion nominations, many being used in raher well known peoples' biographies; most were deleted because they failed the WP:NFCC#8 criteria.

More recently individual stamp deletion nominations, such as Houdini and Marie Marvingt in addition to recent general discussions Wikipedia talk:Non-free content/Archive 40#Postage stamps and Wikipedia talk:Non-free content/Archive 40#Stamps where the consensus goes against keeping non-free images in biographic articles without critical discussion.

In this Steinbeck instance, one editor has suggested that because the USPS has never prosecuted anyone that we should not be deleting these types of images. This goes completely against Wikipedia respect for copyright and must be ignored as a complete red herring and the view of the post office in fair use of not, by another editor, is not our concern. We try to respect fair use, hence WP:NFCC and WP:NFC.

1. Firstly, this stamp is clearly copyright because all post-1977 stamps are still copyright of USPS as noted in the appropriate template {{Non-free USGov-USPS stamp}} and per Commons:Stamps of the United States#Copyright-Note up to 1978.
2. The only way this can possibly be used here would be under a fair-use claim but it must pass all WP:NFCC policy.
3. Issue 1). The main reason the fair use rational fails is that if fails WP:NFCC#8 which states; Non-free content is used only if its presence would significantly increase readers' understanding of the topic, and its omission would be detrimental to that understanding. All reader's can easily understand that the USPS issued a stamp to honour John Steinbeck by the inclusion of prose that says so. There is nothing detrimental in not having an image of the stamp and inclusion the image does not add anything except decoration.
4. Issue 2). Non-free criteria WP:NFC#Images #3 states that: For identification of the stamp or currency, not its subject. This is for use within articles about the stamp itself and not in biographies to show the topic or subject on the stamp.
5. Issue 3). There is no critical commentary about the stamp that might allow its use. This is a basic criteria of WP:NFC#Images but needs to be backed by verifiable reliable sources. Simply stating who issued and produced the stamp, and who it honours is not critical commentary.

Remember the burden of proof to provide a suitable rationale is on the editors who want to retain the image in an article and not on the editor nominating any image for deletion. If there were some reasonable critical commentary AND an appropriate rationale this image might not be a candidate for deletion per the enforcement of WP:NFCC.