Knowledge / Other Categories / Postal Areas

Postal Area: territory (e.g. state, province, dependent territory) to which the uniform application of postal regulations extends

Closed Postal Area: postal area from which new postage stamps are no longer expected due to changes in state law

Without Postal Area Information: post-age stamp or stamp impression in which the postal area is not stated in writing as in-tended design

since these official postage stamps were only permitted for domestic traffic no post-al area information was provided

Missing Postal Area Information: postage stamp in which no postal area is specified caused by error, mistake or printers waste

Double Postal Area Information: postage stamp with information about two independ-ent postal areas in which this postage was valid

Monolingual Postal Area Information: postage stamp or stamp impression in which the postal area is stated in a single language

Multilingual Postal Area Information: postage stamp or stamp impression in which the postal area is stated in multiple langu-ages

Colour As Postal Area Information: the same postage stamp where the postal area is indicated by the design print printing colour (e.g. postage due stamps in blue = Nether-lands, green = Curaçao, red = Dutch Indies, purple = Suriname)

Postal Area Parallel Issue: the same postage stamps that were issued at the same time in different postal areas