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UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION SET TO FEATURE ON VARIETY OF 2024 STAMPS
In 2024, the Universal Postal Union celebrates its 150th anniversary, and a host of countries will be marking the anniversary with special stamps, including Belarus, China, France, Germany, Guernsey and Slovakia.
The UPU’s origins can be traced back to the Paris Postal Conference of May 1863 when 15 countries came together following a suggestion by the USA’s Postmaster General Montgomery Blair. Eleven years later, on 9 October 1874, 22 countries gathered to sign the Treaty of Bern, creating the General Postal Union, which would later become