WELCOME to United Nations Philately!

I am starting this Blog to write about the stamps of the United Nations and ideas about collecting them. If you have a question or some specific area that you would like to see discussed, please send via the contact form on the right sidebar. 

INTRODUCTION

The United Nations Postal Administration was established on March 28, 1951. Through agreement with the United States Government the United Nations was allowed to establish a post office in New York to process outgoing mail. This allowed the United Nations to issue postage stamps in the currency of the U.S. Therefore, there was a completely new area to collect stamps and postal stationary. The first set of definitive stamps to be issued was on October 24, 1951 in New York. As the activities of the U.N. expanded additional postal services were added in Geneva, Switzerland on October 4, 1969 and Vienna, Austria on August 24, 1979.

Shown below is the 1st definitive issues for New York. Sc#1-11

First Day Covers of the United Nations issues are very popular. There are many types of cachets and this makes them a popular collecting area. A First Day cover is an interesting item because the cover shows the stamp issue, date of issue by the postmark, and has an attractive cachet based upon the subject of the issue. Shown below is an example of a FDC.
 

Blogs will be posted as I get the time to prepare them but if you have something that you would like to see of a question about the United Nations stamps or FDC's, please make a comment. 

Good Collecting!