POSTAL HISTORY BEGINS WITH STAMP ISSUING:

• POSTAL HISTORY BEGINS WITH STAMP ISSUING:

1. In many cases, possessions had to use issues of the Third Republic.

2. Common design set of 9 stamps could not get through except to French West Africa.

3. Some Third Republic stamps were overprinted or RF removed & printed in the colonies.

4. INDOCHINA: Authorities designed

and printed their own stamps

for nearly three years.