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Ascension Island Post - Tracking number format

• A# *** *** *** AC
• C# *** *** *** AC
• E# *** *** *** AC
• L# *** *** *** AC
• R# *** *** *** AC
• S# *** *** *** AC
• V# *** *** *** AC

# - letter; * - digit; ! - letter or digit

Ascension Island Post - information about carrier

Ascension Island was referred to as the Sailor's Post Office as early as the seventeenth century. Ships passing Ascension would call at the island and leave letters for others going in the ideal direction to deliver. The eastern head of the Island is called Letterbox, although no trace of the area used to deposit letters remains today.

Philatelically Ascension's history begins on 3rd March 1867, when the UK Postmaster General sent a supply of stamps to the Island for the Island's postmaster, H.A. Haswell, to sell. Given that 1863, the Union Castle Steamship Company had been calling at Ascension to gather and provide mail. With the withdrawal of the Royal Navy in 1922, new arrangements needed to be made.

To celebrate the conversion of Ascension to a dependence of St Helena, sets of St Helena stamps overprinted with Ascension were produced. At the same time the Island's Post workplace was flooded with ask for stamps from all over the world. On 20th August 1924, the very first sets of Ascension definitive stamps were produced, and demand increased. The postal personnel, in those far-off days, was generally a couple of other halves of the UK staff of the Eastern Telegraph Company, the forerunner of Cable and Wireless. This arrangement continued for numerous years.

In 1966, with the expansion of Ascension due to the arrival of the Ministry of Public Building and Works staff, BBC personnel and contractors, Ascension's Administration was put onto a more official footing with the arrival of an Administrator, and Post Office personnel from St Helena. From this time, the Post Office has actually been run by seconded staff who do nominal two-year tours.

Today the Post Office has a staff of three, the Postmistress, a Postal Clerk and a Philatelic Clerk. Stamp styles are agreed by the Philatelic Committee, which includes members of the public and is chaired by the Administrator.

Post Office aims to issue five sets of stamps per year, although this policy is versatile to incorporate celebratory and unique problems. The Post Office runs within the strict policies of the International Postal Union; for example, all first-day covers are in fact canceled in the Ascension Post Office, positioned in the heart of Georgetown.

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There is no nationwide postal service within Ascension Island, homes have numbers, however few of the roads have names! All postal addresses here, are those of utilizing companies. Organizational agents gather the mail from the Post Office, however internal shipments in between organizations are to separate boxes, one for each company, outside the Administrator's workplace. As the majority of people within the little communities know each other, mail within Ascension other, then business mail, is extremely unusual!

Airmail is received and dispatched twice a week through the RAF Tristar aircraft that flies in between the UK and the Falkland Islands. Surface area Mail and parcels show up each month from the UK on the MOD chartered Shipping Service, also en path to the Falklands. Surface Mail to and from Capetown and St Helena and Surface Mail to the UK travel on the Royal Mail Ship, RMS St Helena as it plies its method through the blue waters of the Atlantic Ocean between Capetown, St Helena, Ascension, and the UK.