Local post

A local post is a mail service that operates only within a limited geographical area, typically a city or a single transportation route.

In rural Russia Zemstvo Post handled local mail independently of the central government; some of these lasted until the 1917 revolution.

Types of local posts included intra-city systems, transcontinental delivery (such as the Pony Express), and riverboat routes.

The stamps were printed by Perkins Bacon from plates that are now held in the museum of the Royal Philatelic Society London.

In 2013, Welly Post was established as a private carrier of local mail by EJ Teare Newsagents in Wellington, Somerset, England.

It succeeded in delivering mail for lower prices, but the U.S. government challenged Spooner with legal measures, eventually forcing him to cease operations in 1851.

[8] In 1968, Thomas M. Murray (1927–2003) founded the Independent Postal System of America (IPSA)[9] as a nationwide commercial carrier of Third and Fourth Class Mail,[10] in direct competition with the United States Post Office (USPO), now the United States Postal Service (USPS).

[13][14][15][16] The company issued a number of stamps during the years of its operation, including commemoratives for Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr.[17] and Charles Lindbergh before the USPS did.

The RILP lay dormant until life long Port Clinton resident, Dave Gill relaunched the local post with the first new issue on 11-10-2022 of Commercial Vessels servicing the Lake Erie Islands.