ARTICLES
Article: “Guerres postales contre les timbres-poste d’Israël 1967-81, W. Elsner” (Only in the french language)
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Article: “1950 Unkenntlichmachung von Propagandastempeln der DDR durch die Deutsche Bundespost.” (Only in the german language)
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"Postkriege bis 1948 – Historische Studien” Vortrag Konferenz “Post-Geschichte-Kommunikation” W. Elsner, Berlin nov. 2018 (article only in german language)
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Postal War article 28 par. 1d”, Jan Heijs, London Philatelist nov. 2015. The UPU regulation on the conditions to refuse to deliver mail.
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Postkriege 1870 bis mindestens 2011: ein doch nicht ganz abgeschlossenes Sammelgebiet, eine Bestandsaufnahme, Philatelie (D), Jan Heijs, nov. 2015.
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Das Ausland und die politische Propaganda der Post im Dritten Reich, Wolfgang Elsner, Philatelie (D.) März 2005. (Reichsparteitag NSDAP 1934, Viktoria Stempel Böhmen und Mähren 1941, Kriegsgefangene und Internierte in Allierten Lagern 1940-1945).
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Guerres des postes pour cause de propagande politique, Timbres Magazine (F), Jan Heijs, Fevrier 2013.>
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Postal validity of North Vietnamese stamps in France, Jan Heijs, The Indo China Philatelist (USA), sept. 2012.
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Neue Vermerke “Steuermarke unzulässig” aus Sendungen in die SBZ/DDR, Jan Heijs, Deunot, Januar 2015 (Notopfer Marke 1949-1956).
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Der Postkrieg zwischen Makedonien und Griechenland (2000-2011), Jan Heijs, Südost-Philatelie nr. 122, 2013 (FYROM).
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Zensur oder Postkrieg 1940-1945, Kriegsgefangenenpost, Deutschland, Algerien, Tunesien, Stempel “Un but la victoire” nach der Schweiz, W. Elsner, Rundbrief AGZ 88-1997.
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Inadmissible postage stamps, World Refugee Year stamps 1959-60 on mail to Romania, W. Elsner.
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With this website we try to inform stamp collectors like you about so-called Postal Wars in postal history. You are invited to contact us to ask questions.
NEW: JULY 2022
Possible postal war 2022 Ukrain-Russia
NEW: MAY 2022
1952 GDR Rebuild lottery entire, counter cachet West Berlin.
NEW: MARCH 2022
1885 Eastern Rumelia, Bulgary – Osman empire, Turkey.
NEW: JANUARY 2022
Possible new postal war, 2021 British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), postage stamps invalid according to the UPU.
NEW: DECEMBER 2021
1961 German history and Postal War “Berlin, capital of Germany, not of the Soviet-Zone”. YouTube Film English spoken (5 min.)
NEW: NOVEMBER 2021
FRG 1966 additional to 1966.1-15: German Buildings in the East.
NEW: SEPTEMBER 2021
1963 Malaysia-Indonesia, map of North-Borneo.
NEW: JULY 2021
1991-2011 Macedonia – Greece: disputed country name.
NEW: MAY 2021
Possible postal war - 2020 Azerbaidjan – Armenia, the Nagorno Karabach conflict.
NEW: MARCH 2021
Article: “Guerres postales contre les timbres-poste d’Israël 1967-81, W. Elsner” (Only in the french language)
NEW: JANUARY 2021
1950 Countermark of West Berlin blackened in the GDR.
NEW: NOVEMBER 2020
1932 Manchuria – USA, Australia, Singapore.
NEW: SEPTEMBER 2020
1959 Forged countermarks entmilitarisierte Stadt Berlin.
NEW: JULY 2020
1985-1987-1988 Iran-Afghanistan
NEW: JULY 2020
1986 IRAN 7 th. ANNIVERSARY OF RESISTANCE OF THE MUSLIM PEOPLE OF AFGHANISTAN.
NEW: MAY 2020
Article: “1950 Unkenntlichmachung von Propagandastempeln der DDR durch die Deutsche Bundespost.” (Only in the german language)
NEW: MAY 2020
1950: Political propagandapostmarks of the GDR blackened in West Germany!!
NEW: MARCH 2020
1914 Austrian and Hungarian field postcards blacked.
NEW: JANUARY 2020
1986 New return marks postage stamp Reichstag.
NEW: NOVEMBER 2019
“Postkriege bis 1948 – Historische Studien” Vortrag Konferenz “Post-Geschichte-Kommunikation” W. Elsner, Berlin nov. 2018 (article only in german language).
NEW: SEPTEMBER 2019
1959/60 World Refugee Year, metermarks.
NEW: JUNE 2019
1963 Nepal: postage stamps “Freedom from hunger” blackened in PR China.
NEW: MAY 2019
1932 Manchukuo, Japanese postoffices to China.
NEW: APRIL 2019
Addition to page 153/54: All different stickers of the Westgerman Post to explain returned mail from 1965.
NEW: FEBRUARY 2019
1959 Portugal “10 years NATO”
NEW: JANUARY 2019
1948-49 Postal war Berlin.
NEW: DECEMBER 2018
Article: 1965 Wie aus Rhodesiën Zimbabwe wurde. W. Elsner.
NEW: NOVEMBER 2018
1965-70 Rhodesia - Great-Britain, independence, (additional part).
NEW: OCTOBER 2018
The UPU regulation on the conditions to refuse to deliver mail.
NEW: SEPTEMBER 2018
1948 SOZ/GDR domestic rate on mail to Saarland.
NEW: JULY 2018
1900-13 Crete – Turkey: stamps not accepted.
NEW: JUNE 2018
FRG 1972 special postmark "Tag der Dantziger".
NEW: MAY 2018
1959 Greece – Rumania: postage stamp NIKH (= Victory)
NEW: APRIL 2018
1950-63 GDR Political propaganda postmarks blackened in West-Germany!
NEW: MARCH 2018
USA 1942-44 Flags overrun countries.
NEW: FEBRUARY 2018
FRG 1949 Tax stamp "Notopfermarke"
NEW: JANUARY 2018
Egypt, stamps for the withdrawal of french-british troops.
NEW: DECEMBER 2017
1949 Postal War of Berlin: Extra fee as a punitive measure, sticker of the West-Berlin Post.
NEW: NOVEMBER 2017
1967 Israel, Postage stamp "Let my people go"
NEW: OCTOBER 2017
1965 New items Federal Republic of Germany issue "20 Years of dispelled people"
NEW: SEPTEMBER 2017
1986 South Georgia+Sandwich Islands-Argentina, retour because of motifs on Falkland War: Prince Edward.
NEW: JUNE 2017
1985/86 FRG New return marks "40 years of the integration of dislodged people" - "Reichstag"
NEW: MAY 2017
1959 Greec postage stamps Imre Nagy refused in Hungary.
NEW: APRIL 2017
1955 BRD: new Retourmarks for the postage stamp "10 Years of dispelled people"
NEW MARCH 2017
1958 USA FDC metermark “Kossuth” refused in Czechoslovakia and Hungary.
NEW: FEBRYARY 1, 2017
Returnmark postage stamps “Notopfer”, “17e Juni” and “10 Jahre Vertreibung” of the GDR false