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class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Stamp_French_PO_Port_Said_1899_4c.jpg/180px-Stamp_French_PO_Port_Said_1899_4c.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Stamp_French_PO_Port_Said_1899_4c.jpg/240px-Stamp_French_PO_Port_Said_1899_4c.jpg 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="593" /></a><figcaption>1899 Port Said overprint on 4-centime, used in 1900</figcaption></figure> <p>The <b>French post offices in Egypt</b> were a system of <a href="/wiki/Post_office" title="Post office">post offices</a> maintained by <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a> in <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a> during the 19th century and the early years of the 20th century. They were primarily intended to facilitate commercial and trading interests that needed to communicate between France and points east. </p><p>The post offices were located at <a href="/wiki/Alexandria" title="Alexandria">Alexandria</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cairo" title="Cairo">Cairo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Suez" title="Suez">Suez</a> and <a href="/wiki/Port_Said" title="Port Said">Port Said</a>. </p><p>Initially, in the pre-stamp period, letters were sent with appropriate postal markings to indicate payment and non-payment (letters traveling "bearing" in philatelic terms). In 1857, the regular postage stamps of France were distributed for use at the French Consular Post Offices in Egypt. Although letters could still be sent without postage affixed, in practice most letters were sent franked with stamps paying the required rate. The use of the generally issued stamps of France stopped in 1898 and in 1899, stamps were officially overprinted for the post offices at Alexandria and Port Said (the post offices at Suez and Cairo closed prior to this change). France issued <a href="/wiki/Postage_stamp" title="Postage stamp">postage stamps</a> for each of the two remaining post offices,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> generally at the same time and with the same general characteristics, with the one overprinted or inscribed "ALEXANDRIE" and the other "PORT-SAID". </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Stamp_French_PO_Alexandria_1902_50c.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Stamp_French_PO_Alexandria_1902_50c.jpg/220px-Stamp_French_PO_Alexandria_1902_50c.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="141" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Stamp_French_PO_Alexandria_1902_50c.jpg/330px-Stamp_French_PO_Alexandria_1902_50c.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Stamp_French_PO_Alexandria_1902_50c.jpg/440px-Stamp_French_PO_Alexandria_1902_50c.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="513" /></a><figcaption>50-centime <a href="/w/index.php?title=Type_Merson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Type Merson (page does not exist)">Type Merson</a> design for Alexandria, issued 1902, this one used in the city in 1907</figcaption></figure> <p>The first issue appeared in 1899; it consisted of the post office name (as described above) overprinted on the current "<a href="/wiki/Type_Sage" title="Type Sage">Type Sage</a>" stamps, a total of 15 values ranging from one <a href="/wiki/Centime" title="Centime">centime</a> to five <a href="/wiki/Franc" title="Franc">francs</a>. A shortage of the 25c values at Port Said necessitated <a href="/wiki/Overprint" title="Overprint">surcharges</a> on the 10c value, reading "PORT SAID / VINGT / CINQ". A few of these were additional overprinted with "25" in red ink. </p><p>The first stamps inscribed for these post offices were the French designs of 1900 modified to include the post offices' names. The 15 values appeared in 1902 and 1903. </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Stamp_French_PO_Port_Said_1925_10m.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Stamp_French_PO_Port_Said_1925_10m.jpg/120px-Stamp_French_PO_Port_Said_1925_10m.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="142" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Stamp_French_PO_Port_Said_1925_10m.jpg/180px-Stamp_French_PO_Port_Said_1925_10m.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Stamp_French_PO_Port_Said_1925_10m.jpg/240px-Stamp_French_PO_Port_Said_1925_10m.jpg 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="591" /></a><figcaption>10-millieme overprint with bars obscuring the 25-centime value for Port Said, 1925</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1921 the stamps were surcharged in Egyptian currency, at the rate of about 2.5 centimes per <a href="/w/index.php?title=Milieme&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Milieme (page does not exist)">milieme</a>. Several forms of the surcharge exist. In Alexandria, local surcharges read "4 Mill." etc., while in Port Said they read "4 / Milliemes", with the number in a <a href="/wiki/Sans-serif" title="Sans-serif">sans-serif</a> typeface. Soon after <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a>-produced surcharges arrived in both offices; they read "4 / MILLIEMES" etc. A new round of surcharges in 1925 added black bars to obscure the French currency values. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Stamp_French_PO_Alexandria_1927_250m.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Stamp_French_PO_Alexandria_1927_250m.jpg/220px-Stamp_French_PO_Alexandria_1927_250m.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="139" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Stamp_French_PO_Alexandria_1927_250m.jpg/330px-Stamp_French_PO_Alexandria_1927_250m.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Stamp_French_PO_Alexandria_1927_250m.jpg/440px-Stamp_French_PO_Alexandria_1927_250m.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="507" /></a><figcaption>250-millieme <a href="/w/index.php?title=Type_Merson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Type Merson (page does not exist)">Type Merson</a> for Alexandria, 1927</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1927 and 1928 the old designs were reprinted but with millieme values substituted, ranging from 3 m to 250 m. </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=French_post_offices_in_Egypt&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_Egypt" title="Postage stamps and postal history of Egypt">Postage stamps and postal history of Egypt</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=French_post_offices_in_Egypt&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Smith, Peter A.S. Smith, Egypt, Stamps and Postal History: A Philatelic Treatise, see chapter 10</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=French_post_offices_in_Egypt&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Stanley_Gibbons" title="Stanley Gibbons">Stanley Gibbons</a> Ltd: various catalogues</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110523234545/http://www.askphil.org/b25.htm">AskPhil – Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121010153223/http://www.jl.sl.btinternet.co.uk/stampsite/home.html">Encyclopaedia of Postal History</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stuart_Rossiter" title="Stuart Rossiter">Rossiter, Stuart</a> & John Flower. <i>The Stamp Atlas</i>. 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title="Postage stamps and postal history of Schleswig-Holstein">Schleswig-Holstein</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Russian_post_offices_abroad" title="Russian post offices abroad">Russian</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Russian_post_offices_in_China" title="Russian post offices in China">China</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russian_post_offices_in_Crete" title="Russian post offices in Crete">Crete</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russian_post_offices_in_the_Ottoman_Empire" title="Russian post offices in the Ottoman Empire">Ottoman Empire</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div> <dl><dt>See also</dt> <dd><span class="nowrap"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" 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