ITALIAN OFFICES ABROAD, CRETE

Italian post offices were maintained in Crete for sending and receiving mail. These post offices process the mail using stamps of Italy with an overprint for postage. Some examples of the overprints used on Italian stamps in Crete is as follows:

PIASTRA Or PIASTRE Or PIASTRO (Overprinted on stamps of Italy.)
LA CANEA (Overprinted on stamps of Italy.)