Lundy Island

Lundy Island is a private island off the Devon coast of Great Britain.

While postal services existed since 1887, the British post office closed its suboffice there in 1929. The island's owner then began producing local stamps to pay for mail carriage to the mainland. While the locals were once required to only be on the back of envelopes, this was relaxed for postcards in 1962 and locals were allowed to be on envelope fronts beginning in 1992. Beginning in 1974, postage to Great Britain proper could be paid entirely with Lundy stamps rather than the dual franking required earlier.





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