CUBA

CUBA.

Philatelic Exhibition. Stamp Day. April 24. 1958.
Map of Cuba showing the first mail route.
First stamp in a set of 2, issued on 24.04.1958.
Face value: 4 cents of Cuban peso.
Printing: Recess and typography.
Printed by Cia. P. Fernández, S.A., Habana.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 578.
- Scott No. 593.
- StampWorld No. 579.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 864.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 478.

The postal service in the Spanish colony of Cuba was officially established in 1756, when the Greater Mail Office (Oficina Mayor de Correos) was created by a Royal Decree that had been requested from the King of Spain on February 19, 1754 by the Governor General of the Island, Francisco Cajigal de la Vega. The first postal route between Havana and Santuago de Cuba, indicated on the stamp, was then opened. The previous postage of the correspondence was not established until April 24, 1855, with the issuance of the first adhesive stamp of the Spanish West Indies, and on November 19 of the same year the new postal service was inaugurated in Havana, with the installation of mailboxes in different points of the city.