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Mexico - The Spanish arrived in Mexico in 1516. The Vice-royalty of New Spain governed the area. The peoples of Mexico struggled for independence from 1810 and became a federal republic in 1824. Mexico City was occupied by French forces in 1863-67. The first postage stamps were issued in 1856
Postal Contact:
Gerencia de Filatelia y Cultura Postal
Netzahualcoyotl 109, 6 piso
CP 06080, Mexico DF, Mexico
Mexico - CIA Data:
Location: Middle America, bordering the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, between Belize and the US and bordering the North Pacific Ocean, between Guatemala and the US
Independence: 16 September 1810 (from Spain)
Mexico - FIP Data:
Federación Mexicana de Filatelia
Apartado Postal 1313
Mexico D.F. 06002
Mexico
Phone: 00525 125 867
Fax: 00525 123 503
Other
COMEXFIL - Council of Mexican Philately - in Spanish; some English
Para mas informes comunicarse via internet a: jbenavi@mail.giga.com
o por correo:
COMEXFIL
APARTADO POSTAL 18-868
11802- MEXICO, D.F.
MEXICO
Aerophilately of Mexico - M.Riosa@btinternet.com
"My approach to aerophilately - it's somehow different. I do like, of course, Mexican airmail stamps, but I didn't spend a lot of time to study their varieties. From my point of view, their postal purposes are more important that the stamps on its own. I am a fanatic of ordinary looking covers with fascinating stories to be told. Rates, routes, and postal procedures ..."
Menu:
Early Air Mail Postmarks
Air Mail Labels
R.A.C. Air Contracted Routes
Air Mail marks
Links with related sites
Review of FAM 8
International Air Mail of Mexico (1926-1936) (including complete International airmail Tariff)
Mexican Women in Aviation
CMA's Blind Flight
SEPOMEX - Mexico's postal authority - in Spanish; has Filatelic info
Para cualquier información de los servicios postales, le agradeceremos comunicarse a la Gerencia de Ventas, a los teléfonos (525) 709- 9010 y 709-1566.
Filatélica, al teléfono (525) 709-9694. Fuera del Distrito Federal
Mexican Post History - from postal authority
Philately Museum of Oaxaca, Mexico
Mexican philately began in 1856, when the first postage stamp was issued in our country.
Museo de Filatelia de Oaxaca A.C.
Reforma No. 504
Col. Centro, 68000, Oaxaca, Mexico
Tel: (01 951) 423 66, 423 75, 680 28
Philatelic Museums & Libraries data - Mexico
Lists:
Museo Postal
Edificio de la Central de Correos
Mexico City
(Contents unknown)
Oaxaca: see above
(The "new national philatelic museum of Mexico")
Postage rates for
Mexico
from Mark Sietz
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