Parcel card
A parcel card (in Germany and Austria), in Switzerland a shipping label (as used by the Swiss Post Office ) or accompanying address (as used by the Federal Customs Administration ) and, in international traffic, a Bulletin d'expédition , is an accompanying document for a parcel that is used to register and track the Broadcast serves.
history
In Germany such documents were introduced in 1873 as "postal parcel addresses", in Austria as "postal accompanying addresses". Previously, cover letters were used, sometimes loose sheets, and from 1870 postcards as well. In 1914, the name "Paketkarte" was introduced in Germany.
The parcel card bears the addresses of the recipient and sender as well as any dispositions of the latter regarding the postal handling of the parcel. On the accompanying certificate of posting the sender was the recipient's address, the Post acknowledged to him the fee paid and struck the date stamp of the accepting post office or the stamp of the accepting post office on it from before it was separated and given to the sender.
The lower, narrower part of the parcel number label was glued to the upper edge of the parcel card, which means that the name of the posting point and the parcel number on the parcel card were put on record.
The postage paid was offset in the field provided for this purpose, and if there was not enough space also on the back of the parcel card, in postage stamps and canceled with the day or post office stamp . Frankings with indicia also occurred. Customs fees incurred in international traffic were offset against the tax or postage stamps of the destination country and collected by the recipient. The parcel card, which was sent separately from the parcel by letter post (at the Deutsche Post of the GDR until 1953) was used to notify the recipient, who also confirmed receipt of the parcel on it. It took over the legal function of the delivery note.
Parcel cards remain the property of the post office or the shipping service provider for verification purposes and to settle any complaints.
philately
The higher-value stamps used for franking were often stolen for collector's purposes, so that incomplete or missing parcel cards disrupted operations. For this reason, it was ordered at times to make the postage stamps used for billing fees unattractive for collectors' purposes by using cork stamps, or the post office warned against removing the stamps with stickers. Later, the franked parcel cards or excerpts thereof that were no longer required were given to stamp dealers as kilo goods and thus represented an attractive source for higher value grades used by post.
Parcel card CP 71
In Germany, parcel cards are no longer used for domestic traffic and for shipments within the EU (excluding external areas). The shipments are registered and tracked electronically with the help of barcodes . The barcodes have replaced the previous number slips.
In international traffic, the use of parcel cards (referred to as form CP71) as an accompanying form is required in many cases, especially when parcels are sent from or to outside the European Union (EU) or to external EU areas or electronic tracking is not carried out to the recipient can be ensured.
Notification cards
The notification cards and notes that are left by the parcel delivery company if the recipient is not there serve a different purpose than the parcel cards.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Philalexikon / letter "P" .
- ↑ Sender indicia and documentary evidence . German post automation.
- ↑ a b Klaus Hirschfeld: The official numbers of the Deutsche Post in the districts of Magdeburg and Halle / Saale . Stamp associations from Saxony-Anhalt in the Philatelist Association Berlin-Brandenburg e. V ..
- ^ M. Aschenborn, K. Schneider: The law on the postal system of the German Reich: together with the basic provisions on the constitution of the Deutsche Reichspost , 2nd edition, Springer, Berlin 1928.
- ^ Heinemann: To the post offices in the voting area . Ober-Postdirektion, Königsberg (Pr.) September 5, 1920.
- ↑ Parcel card from Luxembourg with warning sticker . philaseiten.de.
- ^ Hermann Schulze: German Empire. March 1920 issue: 2.50 marks in offset printing . In: Infla reports . No. 9, 1953, pp. 3-4.
- ↑ Jürgen Olschimke: Parcel brands: New developments and new trends . In: philately . No. 341, 2005.
- ↑ Identcode (Deutsche Post, DHL) . ActiveBarcode.
- ↑ Jürgen Olschimke: 20 years parcel centers of Deutsche Post AG . In: philately . No. 453, 2015. (advance publication)
- ↑ International package. General terms and conditions . Austrian Post AG, Vienna 2020.
- ↑ DHL Paket International - Leaflet on the export of goods . DHL, 2017.
