International and domestic post offices were operated by the Ottoman administration in almost every large city in Palestine, including Acre, Haifa, Safed, Tiberias, Nablus, Jerusalem, Jaffa, and Gaza.
[1] The Imperial edict of 12 Ramasan 1256 (14 October 1840)[2] led to substantial improvements in the Ottoman postal system and a web of prescribed and regular despatch rider (tatar) routes was instituted.
[4] Postal services were organized at the local level by the provincial governors and these leases (posta mültesimi) came up for auction annually in the month of March.
[5] By 1852, a weekly service operated from Saida via Sûr, Acre (connection to Beirut), Haifa, and Jaffa to Jerusalem, also serving Nablus beginning in 1856.
In contradiction to that rule, a small number of markings Djebel Lubnan have been discovered:[7] these are believed by philatelists to have been applied by a relay station at Staura (Lebanon).