Two types of handstruck overprints were applied. The first had larger lettering and a rounded frame. This was applied at Dunkirk. The second with smaller lettering and a rectangular frame was applied at Coudekerque-Branche.

This issue, (in both types), wa printed for the provisional civil postal administration under the German military commandant in Dunkirk operating between the 1 July and the 9 August 1940. Due to the size of the overprint it was applied to pairs of stamps. During this period the overprinted stamps were cancelled with normal French postmarks. Other French stamps were also valid for postage but these were usually overprinted on the cover.

Oskar Stephan established a local post here in August 1896 called 'Zeitungs-Bucher-Spedition' which served Beuthen-Konigshutte, Gleiwitz, Neisse and Oppeln.

Seven stamps were issued in a rectangular design ranging in value from 1 pfennig to 50 pfennig. Herman Groger and Cans also began an opposition service in te same month uner the name 'Privat-Brief-Beforderung Flora' and issued 2 and 3 pfennig stamps in a smaller design inscribed 'FLORA' and the value.

Stephan's service closed in November 1897 and Groger & Gan's closed in February 1898.

In an effort to trace relatives and friends who had been dispersed during the fighting, the inhabitants founded information centres. These were connected by a local post.

Anyone making enquires for a missing person filled in a specially prepared questionaire and paid a small fee. (The original fee was later increased to cover the rising cost of mail transport). A reciept stamp was specially produced at the Bialystok district office to show proof that the fee had been paid.

In 1893 Jame A Healy organised the Coolgardie Cycle Express for mail and packets of gold dust during the Western Australian gold rush and special stamps were issued by the service. A similar post was the Lake Lefroy Goldfield Cycyle Mail which operated in Western Australia in 1897.

Arthur Banta ran a bicycle post for 13 days in July 1894. This operated between Fresno and San Francisco during the railway strike.

With the callapse of the Austrian postal service operating in Liechtenstien at the end of World War 1, the Vaduz council sent mail by cycylist across the boarder for posting in Switzerland. For this service a local stamp was issued to pay the fee.

Disruption of the mail service in Italy in 1944 caused the Italian Social Republic to send mail by an existing bicycle service, (Coralit), which made two issues of stamps.

In 1968, boy cyclists were used to deliver local mail on a post founded by Moulins Services at Timaru, New Zealand. This post, which was in competition with the New Zealand post office was supressed by the postmaster general in April 1969.

Advertisment for the Collgardie Cycle Express Company.

Arthur Banta's stamp for the Fresno and San Francisco bicycle route during the rail strike.

Richard Lassig, who founded a local post at Kassel, set up a similar post in Bielefeld on the 7 November 1898. At first he used Kassel stamps and their use at Bielefeld can be identified by the cancellation.

In 1899 2 pfennig and 3 pfennig stamps were issued in a design bearing the towns name and Lassig's monogram. The post ended on the 31 March 1900.

In 1868 a 2 kopeck stamp was issued. This showed only an inscription and the figure of value. The stamp was printed in black and ight brown in sheets of 49 and was for use on the Zemstvo post.

In 1871 the 2 kopeck stamp was re-issued with a design shown a cross above a crecent moon, with two fish underneath. (This being the town's emblem).

From 1871 until 1914, Bielozersk issued 110 stamps. The post ceased during World War 1.

The post served Boston, Massachusetts, parts of New England and the eastern sector of New York. In New York the post joined up with Pomeroy and Co's Letter Expres at Albany. Mail was delivered along the route by both train and stage.

An undenominated stamp, (or advertising label), was issued showing a locomotive in the centre. These were printed in black on glazed magenta paper. Later printings appeared on vermilion, yellow and green papers.

A second type of stamp was released at a later date in a new design.

The route was sold to Fiske and Rice in 1851.

This term seems to be used by British collectors of United States stamps.

Collectors in the United States use this term and 'Black Jack' to refer to the 1863 issue showing a portrait of Andrew Jackson.

Republician stamps were overprinted in celebration when the town was taken after many months of fighting. The overprint applied was 'VIVA ESPANA! / BIBLAO / 19 Junio 1937'.

The 1936 stamps with this overprint, were additionally overprinted with 'CORREO / AERO' This overprint, (which was applied in black), is found inverted, doubled, tete-beche, (one overprint applied normally and the other inverted), and setant with another stamp with no overprint.

A second overprint was privately produced to commerate the death of General Mola on the 3 June 1937. The inscription was surrounded by a special black boarder.

The fighting isolated Bilbao from the rest of Spain and when the railway between Tudela and Bilbao was closed, all means of inland communication ended.

A special sea mail was set up in 1873 between Bilbao and Castro to escape the 'seige'. A special cachet was stamped on the envelopes consisting of a boxed 'POR VAPOR' for which a 25c charge was levied.

It is believed that the service started on the 8 March 1873. On the 26 March, the original fee was reduced to 10c. The last recorded date for the mark is the 29 May 1873.

Letters sent by the sea mail service were handed in at a shop in the Plaza Nueva where payment was made and the cachet applied to the letter. The cachet which measures 34 x 18½ mm was struck in green or blue for the 25c rate and in black during the period of the 10c rate.