Ancient Mail Routes...

Is anyone else collecting and enjoying Ancient Mail Route issues?

Which are your favorites and why?


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Incidentally, you can your vote for your favorite Ancient Postal Route Stamp here:

https://www.posteurop.org/europa2020

Being based in Europe (Catalonia) and very European-minded, I like them and have got just two on cover:






I'm, even thinking on doing a little trip to Andorra (3 hours from my home) to pick and circulate to me the two Europe stamps issued for that country.

Here is the "Europa 2020" minisheet from Belarus.

1st stamp : Krakow-Warsaw-Grodno-Vilnius
2nd stamp : Vilnius-Maladetchna-Minsk-Baryssaw-Drutsk-Orsha-Smolensk

Botswana / Bechuanaland
Mafeking to Gubulawayo
1972 Steiner Page 12.

Great Britain.
London to Edinburgh (Scotland)
shewing free and payable packages.

Wells Fargo.
Source Rover Boy's Annual (Great Britain)
(A must for any kids Christmas Stocking, always met with excitement)

Postboy 1647
With some destinations (Woodblock)

London, England.
1,477 Coaches leave London every day.
Their destination and travellers carried "inside" and "outside" the coach.

Ancient Mail Route, not just old:

The Postal Station at Polemonos Meris, Egypt in 253 BC an article I wrote in 2009 here

https://www.rfrajola.com/Roman/RFEG.pdf

Thoroughly enjoyed that, thank you.


We can go even further back, circa 2300 B.C.
With expeditions beyond the first cataract, into Nubian Territory and the land of Pwnt (PUNT) currently the Somali Coast

The correspondence between his captain and King Harkhuf regarding bringing back a "dancing dwarf" aroused such interest, Harkhuf caused the letter to be inscribed in full, on the façade of his tomb.

Beyond the Pillars of Hercules
Rhys Carpenter
SBN 426 129253
"The nameless adventurers" Page 9

Persian Post
Achaemenid Empire
relating to the dynasty ruling in Persia from Cyrus I to Darius III (553BC>330 BC).

Andorra, Spanish PO. Europa 2020. Showing the old mail route between Andorra la Vella and la Seu d'Urgell (Catalonia)

Andorra, French PO. Europa 2020. Showing the old mail route between Andorra la Vella and L'Ospitalet (France).

On October 16, 1985 Finland issued this miniature sheet (Facit BL 1 975-8) with four stamps to publicize the upcoming Finlandia 88 Stamp Exhibition. The sheet depicts "Upper part of the oldest postal map of Sweden-Finland dated 1698" (Facit).

This August 29, 1986 miniature sheet (Facit BL 2 999-1002) of Finland was the second one issued for the Finlandia 88 Stamp Exhibition. It depicts, "19th century postal ships and their postal ship routes on a contemporary French map" (Facit).