They opened trading posts and engaged in the " trade :" – a term which, under the Ancien Régime, means any type of trade ( wheat, pepper ivory …), and not necessarily, or only the slave trade, although this " infamous traffic ", as it was called at the end of the 18th century, was indeed at the heart of a new economic order, controlled by powerful companies in privilege.

In West Africa trading posts were opened at some points of the current Senegal, Gambia, Ghana and Angola.

Both teams opened the second half trading punts.

The Cotton Museum is a museum that opened in March 2006 on the old trading floor of the Memphis Cotton Exchange at 65 Union Avenue in downtown Memphis.

The new Hereford Cattle Market opened its doors in August 2011 on a new site just outside the city and has already proved so successful that trading and business is up on the previous sites record.

This bridge opened major international trade routes between northern Europe and Venice, and this began Regensburg's golden age as a residence of wealthy trading families.

This was the main driving factor for the Portuguese explorations of the Indian Ocean, including the sea of China, resulting in the arrival in 1513 of the first European trading ship to the coasts of China, under Jorge Álvares and Rafael Perestrello, followed by the Fernão Pires de Andrade and Tomé Pires diplomatic and commercial mission of 1517, under the orders of Manuel I of Portugal, which opened formally relations between the Portuguese Empire and the Ming Dynasty during the reign of the Zhengde Emperor.

Under the unequal Treaty of Ganghwa, which the Koreans signed with reluctance in 1876, Japan was allowed to send diplomatic missions to Hanseong, and opened trading posts in Incheon and Wonsan.

The brothers tried placer mining but soon opened a trading post.

Robert MacRay opened the first trading post in Raystown ( which is now Bedford ) on the land that is now Bedford County in 1750.

Some time around 1675, Wood's son-in-law, Peter Jones, who then commanded the fort and traded with the Indians, opened a trading post nearby, known as Peter's Point.

In 1877 he opened a trading camp in the county, hauling lumber on wagons from Dallas to build his store and also hauling a good portion of his goods from the same place.

The Co-op Superstore opposite ( formerly operated by the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society ) ceased trading on 19 September 2008 and was redeveloped as a Morrison's supermarket that opened on 16 November 2009.

Westward expansion brought the country its first white settler in 1830 when Frederick Choteau opened a trading post on American Chief ( now Mission ) Creek.

Their settlement became known as Lundie's Cross Roads after a trading post opened in the 1830s to serve pioneers and miners searching for gold.

When two trading posts were opened in the village during the 1920s by John Hajdukovich and W. H.

A trading post opened around 1880, just before the gold rush of 1884-85.

A trading post opened around 1880, just before the gold rush of 1884-85.

When the Nez Perce reservation opened to settlers in 1895, Clifford Fuller set up a trading post on his new homestead and the town ( Orofino-on-the-Clearwater ) was established the next year.

Initially called Fausse Pointe, then Dugasville for the Dugas family who opened a trading post at the site.

Kellyville was named for James E. Kelly, who established a trading post here about 1892 and opened a post office on November 27, 1893.

He opened a trading post and brought goods up the Arkansas River by keelboat.

That first missionary, Joseph Newsom, opened a school in 1872, and by 1876 a post office and trading post had been established a quarter mile west of the mission at what became known as Shawnee Town.

The area was first settled in 1849 by Charles Barnard, who opened a trading post near Comanche Peak.

The first post office in the village opened on 28 July 1884.

The first post office opened in 1872.

On March 10, 1988, Rockne opened its post office for one day, during which a Knute Rockne twenty-two-cent commemorative stamp was issued.

Maggieknockater formerly had a post office ; it opened in June 1876 and closed in 1940.

The post was opened for business on March 19, 1825.

When the crate reaches the destination matching its label, it is opened and the bags ( SDUs ) removed only to become PDUs when someone reads the code of the destination post office.

Most designs can be opened by hand, though some gates that are frequently opened and closed may have a lever attached to assist in bringing the upper wire loop over the gate post

Most gates can be opened by push post.

A letter bomb, also called parcel bomb, mail bomb or post bomb, is an explosive device sent via the postal service, and designed with the intention to injure or kill the recipient when opened.

* Brunei Stamp Gallery-The recently opened Brunei Stamp Gallery is located inside the post office building in Jalan Sultan.

These are further sanctified by the recent additions to the architectural excellence of buildings, a fusion of the traditional and modern architecture which are mostly post 1962, after Thimphu became the Capital of Bhutan and opened up for tourism under various Five Year Developmental Plans.

Later that year, the first post office opened in Hayesville and the first county courthouse was built in 1888, currently it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

In 1992, the post of the governor of the province was opened to election.

The post office at Oscoda first opened with the name AuSable on September 23, 1856.

Its post office was opened in 1821, and the settlement was incorporated as Blountsville on December 13, 1827.

It opened with a horse-race in the Circus Maximus, whose starting point lay below and opposite to her Aventine Temple ; the turning post at the far end of the Circus was sacred to Consus, a god of grain-storage.

The post office was opened on December 10, 1881, having been named by the Sayre family whose ancestors lived in Racine, Ohio.

The town was laid out in 1790, and its post office was opened on September 1, 1870.

What is known is that on May 21, 1856, the name of Santa Claus was accepted by the Post Office Department, and the first post office was opened with John Specht as its first postmaster.

To serve the new residents, a post office was opened at Duval on April 3, 1908.

A post office opened at Tulsa in southern Winkler County on August 20, 1927, but it closed in 1929 when the town failed to boom as its namesake had.