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AJ's Encyclopedia of Stamps & Philatelic Links
A Maritime Heritage 1999

MACAU / MACAO

(Returned to China Dec. 1999 from Portugal)

Macao -
became a Portuguese colony in 1557 and wass returned to China in 1999. The first postage stamps were issued in 1884.

CTT de Macau
Mme Chan Nim Chi, Rebecca
Coordinator, International Affairs
Avenida da Praia Grande N� 789
Largo do Senado
MACAO

T�l�phone (+853) 356 062
T�l�fax (+853) 921 663
From UPU; under Portugal

email: [email protected]
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CTT
Divisao de Filatelia
Largo do Senado, Macao
Telephone No : (853) 37722
Telefax : (853) 3968532

Agency:

Interpost
Box 378, Malverne, NY 11565

Macau : CIA Data:
Location: Eastern Asia, bordering the South China Sea and China
Independence: none (Chinese territory under Portuguese administration; Portugal signed an agreement with China on 13 April 1987 to return Macau to Chinese administration on 20 December 1999; in the joint declaration, China promises to respect Macau's existing social and economic systems and lifestyle for 50 years after transition)

Macao - Download Album Pages: - $5 a year for all the countries you can eat!
Free Album Pages? This site is sort of like "shareware" software.

>Macau Philately Home Page
this URL is now (6/00) '404'. Anybody got a new one for their postal authority? email sent to tourist bureau in enquiry 6/5/00 - aj.

Macau Stamp Catalogue of 1996- (from China's Postal Authority (commercial branch) which took over Macau in Dec. 1999)
Lists issues from 1996 - 1999 as of 6/5/00 aj.

Postage rates
from Mark Sietz

Official Web Site of the Government of Macau Special Administrative Region, P.R.C.
No current listing for postal matters as of 6/5/00 - aj.

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