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Postal museum, Colombo
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Postal museum is a Sri Lanka's national museum of post that located at the Postal Headquarters in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Firstly, the postal museum was functioned at the Central Telegraph Office during 1918–1925, and moved to General Post Office in 1994. Again, a national postal museum was opened on 6 July 2010.[1]
Key Information
The museum has basic information on Dutch period post offices, rare stamps, equipment, pillar boxes, etc.[2] Overall, the museum gives the picture of Sri Lanka Post's history.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Sri Lanka's snail mail history". Ceylon Today. Archived from the original on 2 June 2015. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
- ^ "Sri Lanka Post - Our Museum". Department of Post. Archived from the original on 24 February 2012. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
- ^ "When pigeons carried mail from place to place". Sunday Times (Sri Lanka). Retrieved 2 June 2015.
