page_title: Postage stamps and postal history of Muscat and Oman
section_title: First post offices
hierarchical_section_title: Postage stamps and postal history of Muscat and Oman / First post offices
caption_attribution_description: English: An Indian stamps overprinted for use in Oman.
context_page_description: This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Muscat and Oman, including the present day Sultanate of Oman.
context_section_description: The first post office to open in the region was at Muscat on 1 May 1864. This was originally under the Bombay circle but it was transferred to the Sind (Karachi) circle in April 1869 and then back to Bombay in 1879. Postal control briefly passed to Pakistan after the Partition of India and then to Great Britain.
caption: A stamp of British India overprinted in 1944 for use in Oman.
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