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Guernsey Post logo The Smith Street Post Office of the Guersey Post in Saint Peter Port, with a Fiat Doblò Maxi XL postal van parked in front Post office and pillar box on Sark. Guernsey Post is the postal service for the island of Guernsey, Channel Islands. It includes a Philatelic bureau, and regularly issues both definitive and ...
In Jersey and Guernsey, laws [91] [92] were passed to confiscate retrospectively the financial gains made by war profiteers and black marketeers, although these measures also affected those who had made legitimate profits during the years of military occupation. Arrival of British troops at St Peter Port, Guernsey in May 1945
German soldiers in Jersey. During the five-year German occupation of the Channel Islands (30 June 1940 to 9 May 1945) civilian life became much more difficult. During that time, the Channel Islanders had to live under and obey the laws of Nazi Germany and work with their occupiers in order to survive and reduce the impact of occupation.
Guernsey Post is "confident" of finding a mail plane replacement when Royal Mail withdraws its funding in April. The UK postal service announced plans to pull its "equal contribution" of the ...
The Channel Islands [note 1] are an archipelago in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy.They are divided into two Crown Dependencies: the Bailiwick of Jersey, which is the largest of the islands; and the Bailiwick of Guernsey, consisting of Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, Herm and some smaller islands.
Guernsey has issued its own stamps since the creation of Guernsey Post on 1 October 1969. [1] The Bailiwick of Guernsey incorporates Alderney, Herm and Sark which all used the Guernsey issues from 1969. From 1983 Guernsey began issuing specific stamps designated Alderney for use in that island which are also valid throughout the Bailiwick of ...
Post towns: 1: Postcode districts: 5: ... Statistics as at May 2020 [1] The JE postcode area, also known as the Jersey postcode area, [2] ... Guernsey postcode area;
A Jersey 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 d regional issue of 1964, design by Edmund Blampied A 1999 stamp of Jersey. The first postage stamps marked Jersey were issued during the occupation of the island by the Germans during World War II. [1] Later, Jersey used British regional stamps marked specifically for use in Jersey but valid for postage throughout the ...