During the period of British rule over the Land of Israel, post offices were established in more than one hundred and thirty settlements all over the country. Some of the post offices were opened in old and established settlements, and others were established in new and sparsely populated settlements that came up on the ground a short time before. One of those settlements was Kibbutz "Afikim", where a local post office was opened in 1945.
On September 18, 1942, Lebanon Post issued its first stamps as an independent country. On the stamps was incorporated the image of the Maronite emir Bashir II of Beit Shahab, who ruled Lebanon at the beginning of the 19th century.