Belgian Occupation of German East Africa: Belgian Congo stamps overprint 1916: "Est Africain Allemand Occupation Belge", 1924: became Belgian mandate and renamed Ruanda-Urundi. 3: 1882-94 parcel post, Scott Q7-Q15.īelgium, German Occupation: 1914-18: surcharge/overprint on stamps of Belgium. 31: Ruanda-Urundi became independent, affiliated with the UPU, 1960, July 1: became the independent Republic of the Congo, see Congo Democratic Republic.īelgium, forged issues: 1: 1912-15 King Albert I, Scott 102. She has 13 packages waiting for her at Mail Boxes International - things like shoes, tweezers and kitchen scissors she meant to pick up in February but then didn't because of the pandemic.Updated November 2021 - Accents and Diacritics repaired.īelgium: Western Europe name came from the Celtic, Belgae official name of postal administration: La Poste currency: 1833:100 centimes = 1 franc 2002: 100 cents = 1 Euro stamps of this country may be found in the Belgium Stamp Catalog 1500s: postal service via Thurn and Taxis, 1701: French postal service replaced Thurn and Taxis, 1725: Thurn and Taxis returned, 1744: French postal service replaced Thurn and Taxis, 1748: Austrian postal service used, 1793-1814: French postal administration used, 1814: Prussian postal service used, 1849, July 1: No.1, 10 centimes brown first stamps issued without name of country, 1850: used rectangle within lines in a circle as a cancel, 1869: Belgique (Fr.) appeared on stamps, 1870: first postage due stamp issued, 1875, July 1: joined the UPU, 1879: first railway stamp "chemins de fer" 1893: Belgie (Flemish) and Belgique (Fr.) appeared jointly on stamps, 1911, June 1: first semipostal stamp issued, 1914, Oct.1: Germany issued stamps for occupied Belgium, WW II: occupied by Germany, 1928: first newspaper stamp, 1929: first official stamp issued, 1930, April 30: first air mail stamp issued, 1939: first military parcel post stamp issued, 1967: July 17: first military stamp issued, 2002: stamps in Belgian francs change to euros Jsee Allemagne-Duitschland (Flemish), Ambulant.īelgium, Belga: (Hung.) Belgium, Belgian (adj.).īelgium Congo: 1908: annexed to Belgium as a colony, admitted to the UPU, 1923, Aug. McCarthy, 56, used to pick up deliveries in Blaine about six times a year, making a little holiday out of the trip to visit friends on the mainland and shop along the way. Victoria resident Sheila McCarthy is one of them. Ask someone like Lewis in Surrey, and there's no way the extra cost is worth it.īut Baron says he's already sent five shipments to Canada and has had a lot of inquiries from interested customers. Normally, it would cost $2.75 US to pick up a package from Baron's store.
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(Submitted by Brant Baron)Įach shipment costs customers a $35 US fee, plus $5.50 US per package - about a third, he says, of what they would pay a courier like FedEx because the brokerage, clearance and other fees are split between several people.
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The service doesn't include textiles like clothes because of more complicated regulations.īrant Baron says he feels confident that he'll be able to weather the storm until the border reopens. He has partnered with a depot in Langley to be able to combine several customers' packages in one shipment across the border. "As the closure kind of wore on, people kept asking us, 'Hey, how can we get our packages?' " Baron said. New shipments offeredīrant Baron, owner of the Mail Boxes International store in Blaine, thinks he may have come up with one solution to bring in more income and help his customers reunite with their stranded packages. Others are finding creative ways around the problem. So no pickups means no income for business owners.Īs the ban on non-essential travel continues, some mailbox service business owners wonder if they'll survive without customers during the normally lucrative Christmas season. The service costs a small fee - usually under $5 US - per package.
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side of international border will deter smuggling, says American officialįor the many mailbox services in those towns, owners are grappling with growing piles of packages and no certainty as to when their customers will be able to cross the border to pick them up.