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Postage stamps and postal history of Jamaica : ウィキペディア英語版 | Postage stamps and postal history of Jamaica
This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Jamaica. ==Early postal service== Jamaica was the first British colony to establish a post office.〔Rossiter, Stuart & John Flower. (1986) ''The Stamp Atlas''. London: Macdonald, p. 148. ISBN 0-356-10862-7〕 Gabriel Martin was appointed postmaster on 31 October 1671, shortly after British possession of the island was confirmed. Martin carried mail via posthorse between St. Jago and Passage Fort for several years, then disappeared from the record. In the 1680s, sea captain James Wale secured the support of the Earl of Rochester to set up a post office (against the wishes of Jamaican governor Molesworth), but the service seems to have been stillborn, and not until 1705 was a statute (9 Anne) created to legally establish a postal service (in several islands of the West Indies) and allow the postmaster to charge a fee for the delivery of mail. Letters were carried by a packet service until 1711, then the postal service lapsed again until re-established by Governor Nicholas Lawes in 1720. The local planters typically preferred to entrust their letters directly to merchant ship captains, and considered the charging of fees by postmaster Edward Dismore to be tantamount to extortion. Matters came to a head in 1755, when a select committee examined the finances of the postal system, but Dismore continued as postmaster into the 1780s, eventually establishing some two dozen post offices across the island.
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