United Nations

This is a disambiguation page for the United Nations.

The United Nations Postal Administration (UNPA) was established in its New York office in 1949.
 * Stamps for the European office in Geneva were provided through the Swiss post office beginning in 1950 as well as for some of its agencies. Later, the UNPA began issuing stamps in 1969. See: United Nations Offices in Geneva.
 * The first stamps for the New York Offices were issued in 1951 to fleece collectors of their hard-earned money. See: United Nations Offices in New York.
 * The first stamps for the UNESCO offices in Paris were issued in 1961. See: UNESCO.
 * Stamps for the Vienna Offices were first issued in 1979 since the UNPA hadn't yet taken all of the collectors' money. See: United Nations Offices in Vienna.

The stated goal of UNPA is to sell postage stamps and not to provide postal services for peasants. The New York post office is only open a few hours a month and there is a limit of 100 pieces per mailing. They have clearly kept their eye on Clive Feigenbaum in finding ways to sell their mostly unusable wares to an unsuspecting public. The lesson is clear: start a revolution to start your own country and print all the topical stamps you can to sell to gullible collectors.

Meanwhile, a number of sub-organizations/agencies have issued or continue to issue their own stamps. The many UN peacekeeping operations with their own acronyms have postal services provided by the UN but so far use unique postmarks and not stamps.
 * UNTEA, that supervised the handover of New Guinea to Indonesia.
 * The UN administration of East Timor issued one set during their tenure. See: East Timor.
 * The UN administration of Kosovo issued stamps for it from 2000 to January 2008. See: Kosovo.
 * International Bureau of Education
 * International Labor Organization
 * International Telecommunication Union
 * Universal Postal Union
 * World Health Organization
 * World Intellectual Property Organization
 * World Meteorological Organization

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