Receipt book
The receipt book is a booklet published by the Swiss Post since 1910 (with a predecessor since 1852) in which payments made at the post office counter are recorded. Because of its color it is also called the yellow booklet.
purpose
In Switzerland, bills can be paid at the post office counters, among other places. The inpayment slips have a detachable part that is stamped by the counter staff and remains with the payer as proof of payment.
If the receipt book is given to the counter staff with the payment slip, they will record the payment in the receipt book instead of on the payment slip. This makes it easier to collect and store proof of payment.
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The Swiss Federal Postal Administration had been providing its customers with "certificate books" for postal traffic since 1852. These form books, later referred to as the "receipt book", were adapted several times.
The receipt book has existed in its current form as a collection of proof of payment since 1910, four years after the introduction of the postal check service . It got its yellow color from 1924, before yellow became a feature of the post office in 1939. Since then, it has been revised several times and adapted to new products for postal and payment transactions.
In 1999, the Post sold around 500,000 receipt books annually. Despite the ongoing digitalization of payment transactions, there were still around 300,000 books in 2020. In 2020, a receipt book with 300 entries cost five francs.
Every second private person and every fourth company that make deposits used the receipt book for this in 2020. Around 200 million of the around 894 million inpayments made by Postfinance in 2019 were made at the post office counter. This causes around ten times higher costs than an electronic transfer, which the Post compensates with fees for deposits at the post office counter.
Web links
- Receipt book in the range of the Swiss Post
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reinhard Stutz: Receipts . In: The postal stationery collector / Le Collectioneur d'entiers postaux . No. 91 , February 2009, p. 1866 ff . ( Ganzsachen.ch [PDF; 8.3 MB ; accessed on June 27, 2020]).
- ↑ Jacqueline Bühlmann: A love letter to the little yellow book. Swiss Post, February 27, 2020, accessed on June 27, 2020 (German).
- ↑ a b Gérard Moinat: The yellow booklet cannot be killed. In: 20 minutes. July 8, 2011, accessed June 27, 2020 .