Fee redemption
Fee redemption means the lump-sum payment of postage or fee amounts for the transport of a large number of mail items.
Historical meaning
With the law regarding postage exemptions in the territory of the North German Confederation ( Postage Freedom Act ) of June 5, 1869, the exemption from postage fees in Germany was only available to "the ruling princes, their wives and widows".
Pursuant to Section 11 of the Freedom of Postage Act, however, the Federal Postal Administration reserved the right to conclude agreements with state authorities so that the authorities pay aversional sums (lump sums) to the Federal Postal Administration instead of postage and / or fee amounts for the individual items.
Contracts had been concluded with 34 state authorities by 1920, the last, No. 34, from October 1, 1919 with the liquor monopoly administration in Berlin. All of these agreements were repealed by the law on the abolition of toll exemptions in postal and telegraph traffic of March 29, 1920. However, the Reich Postal Administration retained the power to conclude the agreements on the flat rate of postal charges provided for in Section 11 of the Postal Freedom Act with state authorities.
On October 1, 1923, such a contract was concluded with the office of the Reich President. The broadcasts bore the note Free by Detachment Reich , including an official seal with a national badge. From October 1, 1925, this also applied to the state governments of Baden, Lippe, Lübeck and Waldeck (see AmtsblVfg. 540/25). The lump sum was calculated by counting and paid to the post office in monthly amounts. Service stamps that were already in use in Bavaria and Württemberg were also introduced as a replacement for such items .
After the Second World War , the fee redemption procedure was practiced at least in Bavaria until March 31, 1953 (AmtsblVfg.127/53). From Saxony , meaning the OPD districts of Dresden and Chemnitz , mail with replacement notices until the end of 1945 (ordinance of October 22, 1945) is known. There is similar evidence from Berlin (July – September 1945), Hamburg (June 20, 1945) and the Saarland (introduced August 1, 1953).
See also
literature
- Lothar Thieme, Jan Thieme: Flat-rate payment of postage and fees for official mail. History - manual - evaluation. New publication series of the Postmark Guild, Vol. 171 (without year). Review accessed on July 30, 2020.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Federal Law Gazette. P. 141 ff.
- ↑ Freedom of postage by Meyer's Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Volume 16. Leipzig 1908, pp. 172–173. zeno.org, accessed on July 30, 2020.
- ↑ cf. Heinz K. Selig: “Free according to obverse. No. 8: “The postage replacement procedure in the Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe (1871 to 1920) April 12, 2015.
- ^ Heinz K. Selig: The extraordinary Reich tax of 1916 and its effect on the Aversional contract in Schaumburg-Lippe February 11, 2007.
- ↑ RGBl. P. 678