The @OrderofMalta has a long tradition of postal services, where the Knights Hospitaller established an early form of postal service in Malta almost 500 years ago in the early 1530’s. The earliest known letter from the islands was sent from Grand Master Philippe Villiers de L’Isle-Adam to François II de Dintevill, the Bishop of Auxerre and the French Ambassador in Rome, on 14 June 1532.

The Order’s modern postal administration, known as the Poste Magistrali, was instituted on 20 May 1966 under a Decree of the Grand Master, and post offices were established at Palazzo Malta and at Villa del Priorato di Malta, both in Rome. While today, the Order of Malta is not a member of the UPU the mail posted at the Order’s post offices is directed through Italy, who are UPU members since 1875. As such, it is currently possible to send ordinary and priority mail to Italy and abroad from the Magistral Post Offices to the 58 countries with which the Order of Malta has concluded bilateral postal agreements — including Romania.

The modern Poste Magistrali issued its first set of stamps on 15 November 1966, and these and subsequent issues were denominated in the Order’s historical currency (scudi, tari, and grani). Since 1 January 2005, the stamps have been denominated in Euros. In 2022, the Order of Malta in Romania was featured in a series of stamps from the Poste Magistrali about the humanitarian response to the full-scale war in Ukraine.

See here to read more about the Order’s postal services: https://postemagistrali.orderofmalta.int/en/postal-services