The Guyana Philatelic Society (GPS) launched its limited edition Postcard Series A, B & C at the Georgetown Stamp Show Celebrating Guyana’s 50th Year of Independence & Postal History on April 27th, 2016. Each postcard is serialized with a unique number.
Series A, entitled “The Post Offices of Guyana” will consist of all the Post Offices in existence in 2014. The first 24 of the 70 Postcard in Series A were issued.
In conjunction with the GPS Meeting at the World Stamp Show NY2016 on May 30th, 2016, an additional 23 Series A Postcards were issued.
On April 27th, 2016, the first postcard in Series B, entitled “The Postal History of Guyana” was also issued. This postcard features the printing press used by The Royal Gazette to print the British Guiana 1c. Magenta in 1856.
Finally, the first postcard in Series C, entitled “Commemorative Events of Guyana” was issued Celebrating Guyana’s 50th Anniversary of Independence & Postal History. This postcard consists of Guyana’s first stamps and features the Independence stamps issued on May 26, 1966. It is released in conjunction with the Celebrations of Guyana’s 50th Year of Independence.
Series A
No. A 1 – Mabaruma Post Office
No. A 4 – Matthews Ridge Post Office
No. A 7 – Queenstown Post Office
No. A 8 – Anna Regina Post Office
No. A 12 – Tuschen Post Office
No. A 13 – Meten-Meer-Zorg Post Office
No. A 14 – Leonora Post Office
No. A 15 – Fellowship Post Office
No. A 16 – Vreed-En-Hoop Post Office
No. A 17 – Bagotville Post Office
No. A 23 – Georgetown Post Office
No. A 24 – Mobile No. 3 Post Office
No. A25 – Post Office Training School (POTS) & Carmichael Street Post Office
No. A 29 – East La-Penitence Post Office
No. A 30 – Agricola Post Office
No. A 34 – Timehri Post Office
No. A 38 – University Of Guyana Post Office
No. A 39 – Plaisance Post Office
No. A 40 – Melanie Damishana Post Office
No. A 44 – Clonbrook Post Office
No. A 48 – Fort Wellington Post Office
No. A. 49 – Rosignol Post Office
No. A. 50 – New Amsterdam Post Office
No. A. 51 – Reliance Post Office
No. A 54 – No. 51 Village Post Office
No. A 59 – Sisters Post Office
No. A 61 – Bartica Post Office
No. A 62 – Kamarang Post Office
No. A 65 – Annai Postal Agency
No. A 66 – Mackenzie Post Office
No. A 68 – Ituni Postal Agency
No. A 69 – Kwakwani Post Office
Series B
No. B 1 – The Royal Gazette Printing Press
Series C
No. C 1 – Celebrating Guyana’s 50th Anniversary of Independence & Postal History
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