Local post

Local posts were and are created by municipalities or private businesses, used for mail service to places not covered by governmental postal agencies, often to rural or remote locations. They were also used by services that provided direct delivery to a home or business in the days before city delivery was made available by the post office. There were also very local services as in the case of British college stamps or in more modern times, just someone walking to their mailbox at the curb..

There have been many, many different local posts over the years with local posts still existing today. Overall, many have created stamps for their service.

Over the years, there have been many bogus/fantasy stamps created for nonexistent local posts. Eynhallow and the Estonian island local posts are examples of this.

 File:Pskov zemstvo A.jpg|Pskovsk zemstvo. File:Lundy 9th anniv.jpg|Lundy Island stamp. File:Lubeck local.jpg|1888 Lübeck (North German Confederation) local post. 

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