Poste Vaticane

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The use of stamps was introduced in the Vatican in 1852.{{Cite web|date=2019-11-06|title=How the Catholic Church helped create postal services|url=https://aleteia.org/2019/11/06/how-the-catholic-church-helped-create-postal-services/|access-date=2021-02-04|website=Aleteia — Catholic Spirituality, Lifestyle, World News, and Culture|language=en}}

Poste Vaticane was created in 1929 following the Lateran Treaty. It started operations on 1 August 1929[http://www.vaticanstate.va/content/vaticanstate/en/stato-e-governo/struttura-del-governatorato/ufficio-filatelico-e-numismatico.html www.vaticanstate.va] Home Page of Vatican City State > State and Government > Structure of Governorate

The Philatelic and Numismatic Office. Retrieved 2013-04-13. (or February 1929), and the Vatican joined the Universal Postal Union on 1 January 1929. Its yellow mail boxes became iconic in the landscape of the papal city. The Poste Vaticane also handled the state's telegraph communications. The air courier system was set up in 1938. The Poste Vaticane joined the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations in 1965, and PostEurop in 2012.{{Cite web|title=Poste vaticane/2 La storia in pillole|url=http://www.vaccarinews.it/fbnews/fb_25085/Poste_vaticane_2_La_storia_in_pillole|access-date=2021-02-04|website=Vaccarinews|language=it}}

In 2020, a law was passed to merge the philatelic and postal activities of the Poste Vaticane.{{Cite web|title=Philatelic bureau changes for San Marino and Vatican City|url=https://www.linns.com/news/us-stamps-postal-history/philatelic-bureau-changes-for-san-marino-and-vatican-city|access-date=2021-02-04|website=Linns Stamp News|language=en}} In September 2020, the Poste Vaticane released a stamp picturing the coronavirus.{{Cite web|date=2020-09-03|title=Filatelia. Poste Vaticane: un francobollo sui martiri e gli eroi del coronavirus|url=https://www.avvenire.it/papa/pagine/poste-vaticane-un-francobollo-sui-martiri-e-gli-eroi-del-coronavirus|access-date=2021-02-04|website=www.avvenire.it|language=it}}

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Poste Vaticane manages the Philatelic and Numismatic Office of the Vatican City State and operates four branch offices. The Poste Vaticane handles 140 tonnes of mail and six million postcards every year.{{Cite web|date=2017-08-08|title=Promenade insolite dans le centre-ville du Vatican|url=https://fr.aleteia.org/2017/08/08/promenade-insolite-dans-le-centre-ville-du-vatican/|access-date=2021-02-04|website=Aleteia|language=fr}}

The organization's largest branch is near St. Anne's Gate. Almost all of its mail is carried via air, and only stamps from the Vatican can be used on Vatican mail. In the United States, there is an organization called the Vatican Philatelic Society that collects and studies Poste Vaticane's history, stamps, and covers.{{cite web |title=Vatican City |url=https://postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibition/international-philately-europe-southern-europe/vatican-city |website=National Postal Museum |access-date=5 April 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200629185309/https://postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibition/international-philately-europe-southern-europe/vatican-city |archive-date=29 June 2020 |url-status=live}}

There is a branch of Poste Vaticane within the Vatican Museum.{{cite web |url=https://www.museivaticani.va/content/museivaticani/en/organizza-visita/servizi-per-i-visitatori/poste-e-francobolli.html |access-date=5 April 2025|title=Postage and stamps: the Vatican Museums, crossroads of the world!}}

As of 2018, the organization has suspended services to Sudan, South Sudan, North Korea, Timor Leste, Micronesia, Niue, and the French Southern and Antarctic Lands.{{cite web |title=Useful information |url=https://www.vaticanstate.va/en/services/post-and-philately/mail/useful-information.html#:~:text=September%2017%2C%202018,Peter's%20Square%20(mobile%20post%20office) |publisher=Vatican City State |access-date=5 April 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240911181651/https://www.vaticanstate.va/en/services/post-and-philately/mail/useful-information.html |archive-date=11 September 2024 |date=17 September 2018 |url-status=live}}

In the 1991 movie Hudson Hawk, Bruce Willis and Andie MacDowell walk through a fictional Vatican secret railway platform branded Poste Vaticane.{{Cite news|date=2014-01-28|title=Mail Rail: What is it like on the 'secret' Tube?|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-25145632|access-date=2021-02-04}}{{Cite web|title=HUDSON HAWK {{!}} British Railway Movie Database|date=17 March 2020 |url=http://railwaymoviedatabase.com/hudson-hawk/|access-date=2021-02-04|language=en-GB}}

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