Transit fee

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The transit fee is charged for forwarding mail in international postal traffic; it is already included in the respective tariffs.

history

Up until the founding of the Universal Postal Union , high transit costs were usually to be paid, which often amounted to a transit duty. Since these costs were added to the postage fees, they made international postal traffic considerably more expensive and hindered. The demand for “ freedom of passage, that is, the obligation of the countries of the association to pass through their country and free passage ” was already achieved at the postal congress in Bern in 1874 , with the exception of free passage . Later treaties extended the freedom to other types of broadcast. So the passage was not free of charge. These should only be reimbursed on request if the transport and postal handling can be shown to cause the transit country to incur special costs.

Letters

The gratuitousness could not yet be achieved, despite numerous efforts. The mail transit costs agreed at the Postal Congress in Bern in 1874 fell far short of the rates payable up until then. They were further reduced in many cases at later postal congresses. In 1874, gold francs were paid for letters and postcards up to a distance of 750 km. In 1947, 60 cents were paid up to 1,000 km, in 1952 CHF 0.07 up to 300 km, CHF 0.12 up to 600 km and CHF 0.17 up to 1,000 km.

Packages

At the Postal Congress in Paris in 1878, Germany proposed to regulate the transport of items weighing up to 3 kg within the Universal Postal Union using a special service that was branched off from the letter post. The proposal was rejected but the office of the Universal Postal Union was given the order to prepare such a possibility. On October 1, 1881, the time had come for a postal package agreement to be concluded, which 19 countries joined. In the meantime, the postal parcel service has spread all over the world. The postal parcels should generally be permitted up to 20 kg, other regulations are permitted.