Postal censorship is the inspection or examination of mail, most often by governments. It can include opening, reading and total or selective obliteration of letters and their contents, as well as covers, postcards, parcels and other postal packets. Postal censorship takes place primarily but not exclusively during wartime (even though the nation concerned may not be at war, e.g. Ireland during 1939–1945) and periods of unrest, and occasionally at other times, such as periods of civil disorder or of a state of emergency. Both covert and overt postal censorship have occurred.
Historically, postal censorship is an ancient practice; it is usually linked to espionage and intelligence gathering. Both civilian mail and military mail may be subject to censorship, and often different organisations perform censorship of these types of mail. In 20th-century wars the objectives of postal censorship encompassed economic warfare, security and intelligence.
The study of postal censorship is a philatelic topic of postal history.
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the establishment of a Central Censorship Board which oversaw censorship of communications including cable and mail. Postal control was eventually introduced...
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postal service can be private or public, though many governments place restrictions on private systems. Since the mid-19th century, national postal systems...
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1844. Such postalcensorship became common during World War I. Governments claimed that the total war which was waged required such censorship to preserve...
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In Ireland, the state retains laws that allow for censorship, including specific laws covering films, advertisements, newspapers and magazines, as well...
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postal history of Denmark. Denmark's postal history begins with an ordinance of 24 December 1624 by King Christian IV, establishing a national postal...
Office of Censorship was an emergency wartime agency set up by the United States federal government on December 19, 1941, to aid in the censorship of all...
France has a long history of governmental censorship, particularly in the 16th to 19th centuries, but today freedom of press is guaranteed by the French...
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immediately prior to the Second World War. In 1942, he left his job in postalcensorship to contest the Wallasey by-election as an Independent and was elected...
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