Editing Vatican City (section)

=== Postal service ===
[[File:Poste Vaticane.jpg|thumb|The Vatican's post office was established in February 1929.]]

A [[Mail|postal system]] ([[Poste Vaticane]]) was created on 13 February 1929. On 1 August, the state started to release its own postal stamps, under the authority of the [[Philatelic and Numismatic Office of the Vatican City State]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Early Definitives |url=https://www.vaticanphilately.org/vc.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071211191109/https://www.vaticanphilately.org/vc.htm |archive-date=11 December 2007 |access-date=28 November 2007 |publisher=Vatican Philatelic Society}}</ref> The city's postal service is sometimes said to be {{qi|the best in the world}},<ref name="NYT">{{Cite news |last=Baker |first=Al |date=27 June 2004 |title=Hail Marys Not Needed: Vatican Mail Will Deliver |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950CEFDE1738F934A15755C0A9629C8B63&n=Top/News/World/Countries%20and%20Territories/Vatican%20City |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080101222204/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950CEFDE1738F934A15755C0A9629C8B63&n=Top%2FNews%2FWorld%2FCountries%20and%20Territories%2FVatican%20City |archive-date=1 January 2008 |access-date=28 November 2007 |work=The New York Times}}</ref> and faster than the postal service in Rome.<ref name="NYT" />

The [[Postal code#Country code prefixes|international postal country code prefix]] is ''SCV''. The postal code is ''00120'' – altogether ''SCV-00120''.<ref>"International postal code: SCV-00120."[https://www.vatican.va/news_services/press/documentazione/documents/sp_ss_scv/informazione_generale/sp_ss_scv_info-generale_en.html#Targa www.vatican.va]{{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100529155107/https://www.vatican.va/news_services/press/documentazione/documents/sp_ss_scv/informazione_generale/sp_ss_scv_info-generale_en.html#Targa |date=29 May 2010 }}[[Holy See Press Office]] – General Information. Retrieved 23 October 2009.</ref>