Civil mail from Sharjah went through the post office in Dubai

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 until 1963. Military mail from the British Forces stationed in the area went through the RAF airport in Sharjah.

On 10 July 1963, Sharjah opened its own post office and began to issue its stamps and postal stationery under the name of Sharjah & Dependencies (which included Kalba, Khor Fakkan, and Dibbah). There were also unauthorized overprints using Himriyyah, a name of a village in the sheikhdom. Sharjah and its dependencies joined the United Arab Emirates

United Arab Emirates

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 on 2 December 1971, but it continued to issue its own stamps. On 31 July 1972, the UAE assumed full postal responsibilities. Nevertheless, Sharjah continued to use its own stamps until the issuance of the first UAE definitive

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 series on 1 January 1973. Covers

Cover (philately)

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 with mixed UAE and Sharjah franking

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s are known.

See also

• Postage stamps and postal history of Abu Dhabi
  Postage stamps and postal history of Abu Dhabi
  Now part of the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi was formerly the largest of the seven sheikdoms which made up the Trucial States on the so-called "Pirate Coast" of eastern Arabia between Oman and Qatar. The Trucial States as a whole had an area of some 32,000 square miles of which Abu Dhabi alone...
  
  
• Postage stamps and postal history of the United Arab Emirates
  Postage stamps and postal history of the United Arab Emirates
  This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of the United Arab Emirates.The UAE consists of seven states, termed emirates, which are Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al-Quwain, Ras al-Khaimah and Fujairah. The capital and second largest city of the United Arab Emirates is Abu Dhabi...