Inland postage

Inland postage , not to be confused with land postage (land post delivery), was charged as an additional postage until the end of 1824 if letters were to be delivered outside the post office. As a post places here were places with post office or postal expeditions , but not followed by any subordinate post offices guards or Postcollektionen . The inland postage was different at the post offices and was therefore shown separately in the list of local taxes. It was between ¼ and 1 Sgr .

For example B. a post-collection in Velpke . For letters to Velpke, the tax to Vorsfelde , the superior postal expedition, was used, plus 6 Pfg. (½ good groschen ) inland postage ".

In 1821 the distance between the post offices was no longer calculated according to the distance traveled, but according to the straight line, which would actually have made inland postage superfluous. The final end came with the removal of internal tariffs. Inland postage was no longer available on January 1, 1825.

This subheading also included border postage , the postage for transport between the respective border post offices . These were mostly abolished with the conclusion of postal contracts between two neighboring postal administrations, not to be confused with postage in border traffic, as decided in the Universal Postal Union . For places that were not more than 30 km apart, there was a reduced border postage between Germany, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands and Switzerland.

literature

• Archive for German Postal History of the Society for German Postal History - 1972
• German History in the Nineteenth Century : Up to the July Revolution. 3 ... -1889
• Otto C. Eltester: Evidence of the local distances after the stagecoach from Berlin on all ... - 1791