Dubai

Dubai is a country in Eastern Arabia, now an emirate in the United Arab Emirates. 
 * An Indian post office was opened in 1909 in Manama, Dubai. In April 1948, the British Postal Agency took over mail operations, using their overprinted stamps.
 * In January 1961, stamps for the Trucial States were issued, only used in Dubai and Muscat.
 * In June 1963, it issued its first stamps. With control of its stamps program sold to a private company, Dubai began issuing a flood of issues, becoming known as one of the so-called Sand dunes countries. Some issues were legitimately used, but most were produced for collectors with errors and varieties controlled by that private company. A number of issues probably exist only as CTOs.
 * In July 1971, it joined the Trucial States, continuing to issue its own stamps.
 * In December 1971, Dubai joined the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The UAE's first stamps were issued in February 1972 but Dubai did not adopt UAE stamps immediately. Dubai new issues were not formally stopped by the UAE until August 1972 so its last issue was the Olympics set released in July.

