Office des Emissions de Timbres-Poste
The Office des Emissions de Timbres-Poste (OETP, German authority for the issuance of postage stamps ) is an authority in the division of the Department of Finance and Economics ( Département des Finances et de l'Économie ) based in Monaco and issues the Monegasque postage stamps .
The Principality of Monaco does not have its own post office. Since the Franco-Monegasque friendship treaty of Péronne (1640), France has carried out the mailing on the territory of Monaco instead, only interrupted by the periods of the French Revolution from 1793 to 1814 and the Sardinian Protectorate from 1815 to 1860 November 1865 the Neighborhood Convention ( Convention de voisinage ), which is still in force today.
While Sardinian postage stamps were still used in Monaco in the 1850s, these were replaced by imperforate French postage stamps in 1860. From July 1885, Monaco issued its own postage stamps in order to underline its sovereignty, which were compulsory to use for outgoing mail in Monaco.
In order to satisfy the needs of the stamp collectors for subscriptions to the new editions, the Office des Emissions de Timbres-Poste was founded by Prince Louis II on November 6, 1937 ; Founding directors were Henry Gamerdinger and Hyacinthe Chiavassa.
Since 1949, when Rainier III. ascended the throne, the prince decides personally and at the suggestion of the director of the OETP on the themes, motifs and colors of the Monegasque postage stamps. The OETP has been a member of the Universal Postal Union since 1955 . In its prime (1985) the OETP had 35,000 subscribers, today the number has dropped to 28,000.
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- Official website (in French)
Web links
- Official website (in French)