{"id":275512,"date":"2021-01-17T18:54:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T07:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/?p=275512"},"modified":"2021-03-17T19:03:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T08:03:53","slug":"egyptian-post-day-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/%d9%8a%d9%88%d9%85-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a8%d8%b1%d9%8a%d8%af-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b5%d8%b1%d9%8a-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian Post Day 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Egyptian Postal Authority is keen to celebrate Egyptian Post Day on January 2nd of each year. On January 2nd, 1865, Khedive Ismail, the ruler of Egypt at the time, purchased the European postal service operating in Egypt and renamed it the Khedivial Post Office, thus establishing January 2nd as a national holiday in Egypt.<\/p>\n

On this occasion, Egypt issued a new stamp for 2021 to celebrate the Green Army, which is the title given to the men of the Egyptian Post Office. The stamp, issued in the five-pound denomination, shows the daily tasks performed by the postal worker to deliver parcels and other services provided by the Egyptian Postal Authority and highlights how it keeps pace with modern technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Egyptian Post is a socio-economic body that contributes directly to achieving the state\u2019s development plans by providing numerous services that citizens can utilize in the easiest possible ways. These services vary between governmental services, postal services, community services, and financial services.<\/p>\n

The establishment of the Egyptian Post Office dates back to the era of Khedive Ismail. The modern Egyptian Post Office was established when an Italian man in Alexandria named \u201cCarlo Merati\u201d created a postal administration to export and receive letters exchanged with foreign countries. He was responsible for exporting and distributing letters for a fee, as he transported letters between Cairo and Alexandria under the name \u201cEuropean Post Office.\u201d When Khedive Ismail learned about the European Post Office, he bought it from Carlo Merati and appointed him as Director General of the Post Office.<\/p>\n

The modern Egyptian postal service began when an Italian in Alexandria named Carlo Merati established a postal administration to handle the sending and receiving of letters exchanged with foreign countries. He was responsible for sending and distributing letters for a reasonable fee. He also transported letters between Cairo and Alexandria from his office located in Consuls Square, now called Saint Catherine Square. After his death in 1842, his nephew, Titocini, succeeded him. Recognizing the importance of the project, he brought in his friend Mozzi and developed it further, establishing it on a solid foundation and naming it the "Posta Europea" (European Post Office).<\/p>\n

This postal service occupied an important place and continued to transport and distribute the correspondence of the government and individuals. The public had great confidence in the European postal service. When the first railway line between Alexandria and Kafr El-Eis was opened in 1854, the company established post offices in Cairo, Atf, and Rashid. Then, in 1855, it established two offices in Damanhur and Kafr El-Zayat. When the railway line extended to Kafr El-Zayat and then to Cairo via Tanta, Banha, and Barakat El-Saba, the European Postal Company seized this opportunity and used the railway lines to transport mail shipments between Cairo and Alexandria and vice versa under a five-year contract starting from January 1856. This was in the form of a concession to monopolize mail transport in Lower Egypt because it stipulated a fine for the European Postal Company to be imposed on anyone caught in the act of transporting a letter to an individual.<\/p>\n

Khedive Ismail recognized the importance of the European Post Office and purchased it from Motsi after the death of his partner, Tito Kinne, on October 29, 1864. The Egyptian government offered Motsi the position of Director General of the Post Office, and on January 2, 1865, ownership of the European Post Office was transferred to the Egyptian government. This day is considered a historic day for the Egyptian Postal Service and is celebrated annually as Postal Day. Initially, the Postal Service was attached to the Ministry of Public Works, but its affiliation was later transferred to several other ministries. In December 1865, it was attached to the Ministry of Finance.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Egyptian Postal Authority is keen to celebrate Egyptian Post Day on January 2nd of each year. On January 2nd, 1865, Khedive Ismail, the ruler of Egypt at the time, purchased the European postal service operating in Egypt and renamed it the Khedivial Post Office, thus establishing January 2nd as a national holiday in Egypt. To commemorate this occasion, Egypt issued a new stamp for 2021\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_link_nofollow":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[318],"tags":[353,998,1001,1000],"class_list":["post-275512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philately","tag-353","tag-998","tag-1001","tag-1000"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}