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Vatican Post

Postal service in Vatican City

Poste Vaticane is the organization responsible for the postal service in Vatican City. The organization is part of the Post and Telegraphy Service.2 It is headquartered in Holy See.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

Feb 11, 1929Founded1

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Photo: Sibode1, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons4

Poste Vaticane is the organization responsible for the postal service in Vatican City. The organization is part of the Post and Telegraphy Service.2

The story

Founded by Vatican City on Feb 11, 1929.1

The use of stamps was introduced in the Vatican in 1852.

Poste Vaticane was created in 1929 following the Lateran Treaty. It started operations on 1 August 1929 (or February 1929), and the Vatican joined the Universal Postal Union on 1 January 1929. Its yellow mail boxes became iconic in the landscape of the papal city. The Poste Vaticane also handled the state's telegraph communications. The air courier system was set up in 1938. The Poste Vaticane joined the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations in 1965, and PostEurop in 2012.

In 2020, a law was passed to merge the philatelic and postal activities of the Poste Vaticane. In September 2020, the Poste Vaticane released a stamp picturing the coronavirus.

From Wikipedia’s article on Poste Vaticane, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Subsidiaries and ownership

Owners

  • Governorate of Vatican City State

From Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. Feb 11, 1929Founded Founded1

Sources

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