The history of the Thailand mail
starts in 1880, with a letter sent by Chao Muen
Samuhjairaj to king Rama V in which he asked him to
open a post office in Thailand.
The king said yes to the idea and proposed His
Royal Highness Somdetch Phra Chao Nong Ya Tho Chao
Fa Bhanurangsi Swangwong Krom Luang Bhanuphandhuwong
Wordej to be the Post Departament’s director-general.
His Highness had experience in the Khow
Ratchakarn’s distribution, a newspaper whose title
means ‘public service news’.
The opening of
the post office was well prepared and planned; His Royal
Highness Bhanurangsi Swangwong inaugurated the postal
services on August the 4 th , 1883, by accepting books and
letters in Thonburi and Phranakorn. The post office was in a big
building situated by the Chaophraya River and was
called Praisaneeyakarn, which means the postal
building. Among the Thailand mail services are:
cash services, post services, philatelic services, post
products and pay at post services. With the post
services you can send letters, postcards small
packets, aerogramme, printed papersin books,
pictures or messages form and printed matters for
the blind people.
There is also the Express Mail Service through
which the mail is delivered speedily. With the post
product services you can buy bubble envelopes,
ready-made cartons in different shapes and sizes,
post boxes in various sizes and styles for your
correspondence, envelopes and air bubble films.
specially service offers the possibility of sending
insured mail, registered mail, certified mail,
express delivery, advice of delivery and business reply
service.At the Thailand mail you can send money by Western
Union, postal money order, telegraph money order, and EMS
money order. The money can be sent with postal money order
all over Thailand and in other 21 countries; the recipients
will receive the money in 1-3 days (inside the country) and
in 3-10 days outside the country.
If you want the money to be received urgently, the
telegraph money order is the perfect choice. In this
case, the recipient will have the money in 24 hours
inside Thailand and in 1-2 days in other 6 countries.
Pay at post service help the Thais to pay the bills
for telephone, electricity, water, loans, credit
cards, the fees for the embassies visas, annual car
taxes, fines and other.
For the collectors and not only, the Thailand mail’s
philatelic has special stamps, commemorative stamps,
stamps for regular use, annual stamp album, souvenir
sheets, presentation packs and more.
There is an entire web page dedicated to
stamps where you can see a big number of stamps, collections
and sheets. There are stamps with King Bhumibol Adulyadej,
with the King Taksin statue, King Chulalongkorn, with the
Thai architecture, with the national flower-the orchid, with
birds, fish, butterflies,
elephants, national museums, Thai beaches, temples, flag and
more, for the joy of the stamps lovers.
Thailand mail develops many projects and one
of them is the one through which the people will be able to
buy lottery tickets from any Thai post office.