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In 1895, W. Frese & Co. of San Francisco, acting as an agent of the Oceanic Phosphate Company, issued a series of postage stamps for mail carried between California at the company's guano mining operations on [[Clipperton Island]], which ended in 1898.<ref name="CIstamps">{{cite magazine |title=The Stamps of Clipperton Island |last=Baldus |first=Wolfgang |author-link=Wolfgang Baldus |journal=The Postal Gazette |volume=IV |issue=5 |date=October 2009 |page=42 |url=http://www.thepostalgazette.com/issues/26/Clipperton_Stamps.pdf}}</ref>
In 2012, Penny Farthing Post in [[Bude]], Cornwall, England, operated a mail service for Bude, Stratton, and Poughill delivering post on a [[penny farthing]] bicycle for 25 pence. Graham Eccles printed his own stamps and set up the service in response to the [[Royal Mail]] raising postage stamp prices to 60 pence.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2012-04-04 |title=Post delivered by penny-farthing in Bude |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cornwall-17607089 |access-date=2023-06-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Cunningham |first=Emily |date=2012-04-22 |title=Look out, Royal Mail – it's Penny Farthing Post! |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/shortcuts/2012/apr/22/royal-mail-penny-farthing-post |access-date=2023-06-27 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> Closed June 2012, due to excessive volumes of post.▼
In 2013, ''Welly Post'' was established as a private carrier of local mail by EJ Teare Newsagents in Wellington, Somerset, United Kingdom. Local delivery was limited to the village of Wellington and 2 {{frac|1|2}} miles outside the village. The service was established after customers complained about the high price of postage.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Somerset-newsagent-sets-Welly-Post-customers/story-20348613-detail/story.html |title=Somerset newsagent sets up 'Welly Post' after customers complain about the Royal Mail - Western Morning News |publisher=westernmorningnews.co.uk |author=Western Morning News |date=Dec 20, 2013 |accessdate=2014-10-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141020140608/http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Somerset-newsagent-sets-Welly-Post-customers/story-20348613-detail/story.html |archive-date=2014-10-20 |url-status=dead }}</ref>▼
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▲In 2012, Penny Farthing Post in [[Bude]], Cornwall, operated a mail service for Bude, Stratton, and Poughill delivering post on a [[penny farthing]] bicycle for 25 pence. Graham Eccles printed his own stamps and set up the service in response to the [[Royal Mail]] raising postage stamp prices to 60 pence.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2012-04-04 |title=Post delivered by penny-farthing in Bude |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cornwall-17607089 |access-date=2023-06-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Cunningham |first=Emily |date=2012-04-22 |title=Look out, Royal Mail – it's Penny Farthing Post! |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/shortcuts/2012/apr/22/royal-mail-penny-farthing-post |access-date=2023-06-27 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> Closed June 2012, due to excessive volumes of post.
==Private local posts of the United States==
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