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World Post Day is celebrated on October 9th. This day is the date when the first postal union, the Universal Postal Union(UPU, 万国邮联), was started in 1874 in Bern, Switzerland.

Post is one of the oldest way of ________. The postal service is part of people’s daily life all over the world. People send or ________ letters and parcels through the postal service.

Did you know that China was one of the first countries to have a postal service? Experts disagree about the date, but it is likely that there was a system during the Qin Dynasty (221—207B.C.).

________, some experts think that there may have been a postal system before then. In the Zhou Dynasty(1122—256B.C.), Confucius （孔子)(551—479B.C.) said, “News of deeds travels faster than the mail.”

Experts believe that the Chinese Postal Service has been in use for the longest amount of time in the world. Many students collect stamps for a ________. This, according to UPU, young people to learn about the world.

“The ________ way to learn about a country is probably through stamp collecting,” says Anthony Alverno, a UPU official.

Through stamp collecting you can _________ in time to hundreds of years ago or go into outer space. You can meet famous people, or learn about places and animals from around the world.

“It does not cost a lot of money and most of all it is full of fun,” says Alverno.

World Post Day is celebrated in many ways. Postal service in many countries use this day to have stamp exhibitions and use special stamps.