Street mail
Street posts (technical language ‟ Overland posts with revision ÜpU ”) were special transport facilities of the German Post. They were used to rework the items to be transported on the various mail distribution routes in the truck. In the mail delivery service, the Deutsche Bundespost differentiated between rail posts , air posts , ship posts and road posts . For this purpose, letter frames were built into the trucks .
Street post
There were street posts in Berlin since November 1, 1889 to improve the city's mail traffic. The letters collected from the mailbox emptying and the acceptance post offices were sorted in the car on the way to the delivery post office. This service was discontinued on April 1, 1900.
Between 1935 and 1939, road guards were again attempted with or without modification. The letters or postcards that were thrown into the mailbox on the car received an elliptical route stamp. The Daimler-Benz buses transferred every movement to the postal workers; they were therefore jokingly called “Schüttelpost” by them.
After the war, initially between March 20, 1951 and September 29, 1962, a power course mail ran between Stade and Itzwörden. In the OPD district of Stuttgart, from January 1, 1952 to September 27, 1964, mail was reworked in a motor mail trailer. An old (1932) two-line reversible stamp was used.
With the introduction of the night airmail network , new street posts were also set up. After a few test drives, road guards were gradually driven as planned. These routes were recorded in the postal timetable. There was also a special ÜpU.
In the postal rate book, each UPÜ had a specific timetable number . Until May 30, 1964, the number was in the range of 4001–8000. After the nationwide introduction of the four-digit postcodes , the three-digit postcode with a "0" in front of the operational post office was used. (ZB 0440 for Münster)
On May 28, 1988, the last two overland posts (ÜPU) began their last trips.
literature
- Bluhme, Martin: The ÜpU at the Deutsche Bundespost , in Postpraxis, magazine for the postal service 4/80
- Heuer / Labitzke: The German street posts ÜpU part 1 and 2, manual and catalog , new series of publications, the postmark guild "Rhein-Donau" eV, issue no. 72, September 1976
- Rachow and others: Concise dictionary of the postal system , Federal Ministry for the postal and telecommunications system, Frankfurt am Main, 1953
