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The need for the soldiers to maintain contact with their families during war has often presented a difficult challenge to the military authorities. Receiving and sending mail was recognized as a first-class means of maintaining the morale of the soldiers, and great efforts were made to ensure the continuity of the operation of the military mail. During the First World War, the military authorities were faced for the first time with the need to deliver millions of pieces of mail all over the world, and one of the solutions they found was the development of a special postcard containing short, pre-printed messages, from which the soldier could choose the appropriate message. A number of postcards kept in the Alexander collection represent messages delivered by British army soldiers from the front in Israel.
On January 1, 1967, the Ivory Coast post office issued a stamp for use by the military.
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