Postage stamps and postal history of Aden

Aden is a city in southern Yemen. Aden's location made it a popular exchange port for mail passing between places around the Indian Ocean and Europe. When Captain S. B. Haines of the Indian Marine, the East India Company's navy, occupied Aden on 19 January 1839,^[1] mail services were immediately established in the settlement with a complement of two postal clerks and four letter carriers.^[2] An interim postmaster was appointed as early as June 1839.^[3] Mail is known to exist from 15 June 1839 although a regular postmaster was not appointed until 1857; one of the officials of the Political Agent or the civil surgeon performed the duties of postmaster for a small salary.^[4]

[1] India. Foreign and Political Dept., Precis of Papers Regarding Aden, 1838-1872, Government Central Branch Press, 1876, p. 4.

[2] Frederick Mercer Hunter, An Account of the British Settlement of Aden in Arabia, pp.151 et seq., London, Trübner (1877) ISBN 9781313803939

[3] Sismondo's Classics: Notes on the postmarks and postal history of Aden in the classic period 1840-1900.

[RF223-4] Rossiter & Flower, p.223.

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