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Poste San Marino

San Marino's postal service

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ3696341 ↗
Source-derived summary

Poste San Marino (Italian pronunciation: [ˈpɔste sam maˈriːno], lit. 'San Marino Post') or Poste Sammarinesi (pronounced [ˈpɔste sammariˈneːzi], lit. 'Sammarinese Post') is the company responsible for postal service in San Marino.

History

It was established on 7 October 1607, with the first stamps printed in 1877.

San Marino joined the Universal Postal Union on 7 January 1915.

It became a Società per azioni (S.p.A.) in 2016.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Poste San Marino” is san Marino's postal service. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Poste, Marino and Marino's, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1607, 1877, 1915, 2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1607. For this dossier, Poste, Marino and Marino's is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “san Marino's postal service” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3696341. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1607, 1877, 1915 and 2016.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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This entry incorporates text from “Poste San Marino” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.