The first issue of “Barbados” stamps was placed on sale on April 15, 1852, when the local Post Office also commenced its operations. Unlike many of the other Caribbean nations, British stamps were never used for any domestic delivery postage in Barbados. The local legislature much later passed the Post Office Act in 1851. īarbados was the second territory in the British West Indies to establish an inland post service by an Act of Parliament. In 1663, during the reign of Charles II, England’s imperial Post Office established a packet agency on the island. Historic pillar box (mail box) in Warrens with royal cypher of "E R"īarbados has one of the world’s oldest postal services.
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