# List of postal services abroad

In the latter part of the 19th and early part of the 20th century, a number of countries maintained post offices in foreign countries, arranged by treaty. Most such offices were operated by European powers in the Middle and Far East. They were partly motivated by the desire to provide reliable postal service for merchants and other foreign nationals in major cities, and partly by suspicion of the local postal service. The currency in use could be either the local currency, or that of the home country.
Additionally, it became the practice of occupying military powers to establish postal services in the occupied country.

## List
### Austrian Post Abroad

    Italy (Austrian Occupation) 1918 only
    Lombardy-Venetia 1850–1866
    Montenegro (Austrian Occupation) 1917 only
    Romania (Austrian Occupation) 1917–1918
    Serbia (Austrian Occupation) 1916 only
    Austro-Hungarian Post in China 1904–1919
    Crete (Austro-Hungarian Post) 1903–1914
    Austro-Hungarian Post in the Ottoman Empire 1867–1915
       Palestine (Austrian Post Offices) 1854–1914
    Austro-Hungarian Military Post 1915–1918

### Belgian Post Abroad

    Eupen and Malmedy (Belgian Occupation) 1920 only
    German East Africa (Belgian Occupation) 1916–1918
    Germany (Belgian Occupation) 1919–1920

### British Post Abroad

    British post offices abroad
    British post offices in Africa various issues
    Baghdad (British Occupation) 1917 only
    Bangkok (British Post Office) 1882–1885
    Batum (British Occupation) 1919–1920
    British Levant 1885–1923
    Bushire (British Occupation) 1915 only
    Cameroons (British Occupation) 1915 only
    China (British Railway Administration) 1901 only
    China (British Post Offices) 1917–1930
    Crete (British Post Offices) 1898–1899
    East Africa Forces 1943–1948
    Eastern Arabia (British postal agencies) 1948–1966
    Egypt (British Forces) 1932–1943
    Eritrea (British Military Administration or British Administration) 1948–1952
    German East Africa (British Occupation) 1917 only
    Iraq (British Occupation) 1918–1923
    Japan (British Post Offices) 1859–1879
    Japan (British Commonwealth Occupation Force) 1946–1949
    Long Island (British Occupation) 1916 only
    Madagascar (British Consular Mail) 1884–1895
    Mafia Island (British Occupation) 1915–1916
    Malaya (British Military Administration) 1945–1948
    Middle East Forces 1942–1947
    Morocco Agencies 1898–1957
    North Borneo (BMA) 1945 only
    Salonika (British Field Office) 1916 only
    Sarawak (British Military Administration) 1945 only
    Somalia (British Military Administration or British Administration) 1948–1950
    Tangier 1927–1957
    Tripolitania (British Military Administration or British Administration) 1948–1952

### Chinese Post Abroad

    Chinese post offices in Tibet 1911–1912

### Egyptian Post Abroad

    Gaza (Egyptian Occupation) 1948–1967
    Jaffa (Egyptian Post Office) 1870–1872

### Finnish Post Abroad

    Aunus (Finnish Occupation) 1919 only
    Eastern Karelia (Finnish Occupation) 1941–1944

### French Post Abroad

    Andorra (French Offices) 1931 –
    Arad (French Occupation) 1919 only
    Castelrosso (French Occupation) 1920–1921
    Cilicia (French Occupation) 1918–1921
    Ethiopia (French Post Offices) 1906–1908
    Japan (French Post Offices) 1865–1880
    Klaipėda 1923 only
    Korce (Koritza) 1917–1919
    Madagascar (French Post Offices) 1885–1896
    Majunga (French Post Office) 1895 only
    Memel (French Administration) 1920–1923
    Morocco (French Post Offices) 1862–1914
    Syria (French Occupation) 1919–1923
    Tangier (French Post Office) 1918–1942
    Saar (French Administration) 1920–1935
    French post offices abroad
    China (French Post Offices) 1894–1922
       Tientsin (French Post Office) 1903–1922
    Crete (French Post Offices) 1902–1913
    Egypt (French Post Offices) 1899–1931
       Alexandria (French Post Office) 1899–1931
       Port Said (French Post Office) 1899–1931
    Zanzibar (French Post Office) 1889–1904
    Ottoman Empire (French Post Offices) 1885–1923
       Beirut (French Post Office) 1905 only
       Dedeagatz (French Post Office) 1893–1914
       Kavalla (French Post Office) 1893–1914
       Port Lagos (French Post Office) 1893–1898
       Vathy (French Post Offices) 1893–1914
       Palestine (French Post Offices) 1854–1914
    Postage of the Free French Forces in the Levant 1942–1946

### German Post Abroad

    German Ninth Army Post 1918 only
    Albania (German Occupation) 1943–1944
    Alsace-Lorraine (German Occupation) 1870–1871
    Alsace (German Occupation) 1940–1941
    Belgium (German Occupation) 1914–1918
    Dalmatia (German Occupation) 1943–1945
    Dorpat (German Occupation) 1918 only
    Estonia (German Occupation) 1941 only
    Laibach (German Occupation) 1943–1945
    Latvia (German Occupation) 1941 only
    Lithuania (German Occupation) 1941 only
    Lorraine (German Occupation) 1940–1941
    Luxembourg (German Occupation) 1940–1944
    Macedonia (German Occupation) 1944 only
    Montenegro (German Occupation) 1943–1945
    Ostland (German Occupation) 1941–1945
    Poland (German Occupation WWI) 1915–1918
    Poland (German Occupation WWII) 1939–1945
    Romania (German Occupation) 1917–1918
    Serbia (German Occupation) 1941–1944
    Ukraine (German Occupation) 1941–1944
    Zante (German Occupation) 1943–1945
    Zanzibar (German Postal Agency) 1890–1891
    China (German Post Offices) 1886–1917
    Morocco (German Post Offices) 1899–1917
    German post offices in the Ottoman Empire 1884–1914
    Postage of German Occupation Forces (WWI) 1914–1918
    Postage of German Occupation Forces (WWII) 1939–1945
    Eastern Command Area 1916–1918
    Western Command Area 1916–1918
    Palestine (German Post Offices) 1898–1914

### Germany (Allied Occupation)

    Baden (French Zone) 1947–1949
    Postage of Berlin-Brandenburg in the Russian Zone 1945 only
    Postage of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in the Russian Zone 1945–1946
    Postage of North West Saxony in the Russian Zone 1945–1946
    Saxony (Russian Zone) 1945–1946
    Postage of South East Saxony in the Russian Zone 1945–1946
    Thuringia (Russian Zone) 1945–1946
    Württemberg (French Zone) 1947–1949
    American, British and Russian Zones 1946–1948
    Anglo-American Zones (Civil Government) 1948–1949
    Anglo-American Zones (Military Government) 1945–1946
    French Zone (General Issues) 1945–1946
    Postage of the Rhineland – Palatinate in the French Zone 1947–1949
    Russian Zone (General Issues) 1948–1949
    Saar (French Zone) 1945–1947

### Greek Post Abroad

    Greek Post Offices in the Turkish Empire 1861–1881
    Albania (Greek Occupation) 1940–1941
    Kavalla (Greek Occupation) 1913 only
    Khios (Greek Occupation) 1913 only
    Lemnos (Greek Occupation) 1912–1913
    Lesbos (Greek Occupation) 1912–1913
    Dodecanese Islands (Greek Occupation) 1947 only

### Indian Overseas Forces

    Gaza (Indian UN Force) 1965 only
    Indo-China (Indian Forces) 1954–1968
    Korea (Indian Custodian Forces) 1953 only
    Mosul (Indian Forces) 1919 only
    Congo (Indian UN Force) 1962 only
    China Expeditionary Force 1900–1923
    Indian Expeditionary Forces 1914–1922

### Indo-Chinese Post in China

    Canton (Indo-Chinese Post Office) 1901–1922
    China (Indo-Chinese Post Offices) 1900–1922
    Hoi-Hao (Indo-Chinese Post Office) 1902–1922
    Kouang-Tcheou 1898–1943
    Mong-Tseu (Indo-Chinese Post Office) 1903–1922
    Pakhoi (Indo-Chinese Post Office) 1903–1922
    Tchongking (Indo – Chinese Post Office) 1903–1922
    Yunnanfu (Indo-Chinese Post Office) 1903–1922

### Israeli Post Abroad

    Golan (Israeli Post Offices) 1967 –
    Sinai (Israeli Post Offices) 1967–1982
    West Bank and Gaza (Israeli Post Offices) 1967 –

### Italian Post Abroad

    Albania (Italian Occupation) 1939–1943
    Benghazi (Italian Post Office) 1901–1912
    Cephalonia and Ithaca (Italian Occupation) 1941 only
    Corfu and Paxos (Italian Occupation) 1941 only
    Corfu (Italian Occupation) 1923 only
    Dalmatia (Italian Occupation) 1919–1923
    Ethiopia (Italian Occupation) 1936 only
    Lubiana (Italian Occupation) 1941 only
    Montenegro (Italian Occupation) 1941–1943
    Saseno (Italian Occupation) 1923 only
    Trentino (Italian Occupation) 1918–1919
    Tripoli (Italian Post Office) 1909–1912
    Venezia Giulia (Italian Occupation) 1918–1919
    Fiume and Kupa Zone 1941–1942
    Ionian Islands (Italian Occupation) 1941–1943
    Italian post offices in Africa
    Italian post offices in China
       Pechino (Italian Post Office) 1917–1922
       Tientsin (Italian Post Office) 1917–1922
    Italian post offices in Crete
       Khania (Italian Post Office) 1900–1912
    Italian post offices in Egypt
    Italian post offices in the Ottoman Empire 1873–1923
       Constantinople (Italian Post Office) 1908–1923
       Durazzo (Italian Post Office) 1902–1916
       Jannina (Italian Post Office) 1909–1911
       Salonika (Italian Post Office) 1909–1911
       Scutari (Italian Post Office) 1909–1915
       Smirne (Italian Post Office) 1909–1911
       Valona (Italian Post Office) 1909–1916
       Palestine (Italian Post Offices) 1908–1914

### Japanese Post Abroad

    Brunei (Japanese Occupation) 1942–1945
    Burma (Japanese Occupation) 1942–1945
    Central China (Japanese Occupation) 1941–1944
    Honan (Japanese Occupation) 1941
    Hong Kong (Japanese Occupation) 1945 only
    Hopei (Japanese Occupation) 1941
    Inner Mongolia (Japanese Occupation) 1941–1943
    Japanese Taiwan (Formosa) 1945 only
    Java (Japanese Occupation) 1943–1945
    Kelantan (Japanese Occupation) 1942–1945
    Korea (Japanese Post Offices) 1900–1901
    Kwangtung (Japanese Occupation) 1942–1945
    Malaya (Japanese Occupation) 1942–1945
    Manchukuo 1932–1945
    Mengkiang (Japanese Occupation) 1942–1945
    Nangking and Shanghai (Japanese Occupation) 1941–1945
    North Borneo (Japanese Occupation) 1942–1945
    North China (Japanese Occupation) 1942–1945
    Sarawak (Japanese Occupation) 1942–1945
    Shansi (Japanese Occupation) 1941
    Shantung (Japanese Occupation) 1941
    South China (Japanese Occupation) 1942
    Sumatra (Japanese Occupation) 1943–1945
    Supeh (Japanese Occupation) 1941
    Japanese post in occupied China 1941–1942
    Philippines (Japanese Occupation) 1942–1945
    China (Japanese Post Offices) 1900–1922
    Japanese Naval Control Area 1942–1943

### Jordanian Post Abroad

    Egypt and Jordan 1948–1967

### North Korean Post Abroad

    South Korea (North Korean Occupation) 1950 only

### Polish Post Abroad

    Central Lithuania (Polish Occupation) 1920–1922
    Constantinople (Polish Post Office) 1919–1921
    Danzig (Polish Post Office) 1924–1939
    Polish post offices in the Turkish Empire
    Polish Army in Russia 1942 only
    Polish Corps in Russia 1918 only
    Polish Government in Exile 1941–1945

### Romanian Post Abroad

    Banat Bacska (Romanian Occupation) 1919–1920
    Constantinople (Romanian Post Office) 1896, 1919–1922/23
    Debrecen (Romanian Occupation) 1919–1920
    Hungary (Romanian Occupation) 1919–1920
    Temesvar (Romanian Occupation) 1919 only
    Transylvania (Romanian Occupation) 1919 only
    Romanian post offices in the Turkish Empire 1896–1919

### Russian Post Abroad

    North Korea (Russian Occupation) 1946–1948
    South Lithuania (Russian Occupation) 1919 only
    Russian post offices abroad
    China (Russian Post Offices) 1899–1920
    Crete (Russian Post Offices) 1899 only
    Russian post offices in the Ottoman Empire 1863–1914
       Beirut (Russian Post Office) 1879–1910
       Constantinople (Russian Post Office) 1909–1910
       Dardanelles (Russian Post Office) 1909–1910
       Kerrasunde (Russian Post Office) 1909–1910
       Mount Athos (Russian Post Office) 1909–1914
       Mytilene (Russian Post Office) 1909–1914
       Rizeh (Russian Post Office) 1909–1910
       Salonika (Russian Post Office) 1909–1914
       Smyrne (Russian Post Office) 1909–1910
       Trebizonde (Russian Post Office) 1909–1910
       Palestine (Russian Post Offices) 1868–1914

### Serbian Post Abroad

    Baranya (Serbian Occupation) 1919 only
    Hungary (Serbian Occupation) 1919 only
    Temesvar (Serbian Occupation) 1919 only

### Spanish Post Abroad

    Andorra (Spanish Offices) 1928 –
    Morocco (Spanish Post Offices) 1903–1914
    Tangier (Spanish Post Offices) 1921–1957
    Tetuan (Spanish Post Office) 1908–1909

### Thai Post Abroad

    Malaya (Thai Occupation) 1943–1945

### Togo (Allied Occupation)

    Togo (Anglo-French Occupation) 1914–1919

### Turkish Post Abroad

    Thessaly (Turkish Occupation) 1898 only

### US Post Abroad

    Guam (US Administration) 1899–1901
    US post in Japan 1867–1874
    Shanghai (US Postal Agency) 1919–1922
    Philippines (US Administration) 1899–1945