Mauritius Post

{{short description|Main postal service company in Mauritius}}

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| name = Mauritius Post

| image = Mauritius Old-Post-Office-01.jpg

| image_caption = Old Mauritius Post building in Port Louis, now part of the Mauritius Postal Museum

| alt = A large, dark-brown stone building with the words "Post Office" on the front. Signs for the Postal Museum are visible in front of the building.

| type = Public

| industry = Postal service

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Mauritius Post is today the company responsible for the postal service in Mauritius. The first informal mail delivery service to Mauritius from France under the direction of the French Crown appears to have been around the 1770s by Pierre Nicolas Lambert, the King’s Printer.

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{{Postal administrations of Africa}}

Category:Postal organizations

Category:Philately of Mauritius

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