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Money mail carriers , officially money messengers in the Deutsche Bundespost , were male federal postal officials who were used specifically for the payment of pensions and postal orders in larger cities to pay out sums of money. In the course of the expansion of cashless payment transactions, cash delivery became less and less important and the last money mail carriers were transferred to the office in 1995.
history
In 1868 there were already deliveries of up to 50 thalers together with the delivery note in several places. The delivery of money was uniformly regulated in 1872. It was now possible to remove up to 500 thalers in the local delivery area if a declaration of collection was not available at the post office. At the same time, the delivery also applied to postal orders . From 1874 the post office was able to reduce the amount. Over the years, the maximum amounts have been increased again and again, with a high point during the period of inflation. A delivery fee for sending money was abolished on October 1, 1919. With the establishment of the postal check service in 1909, the scope of direct cash delivery decreased steadily.
Money carriers of the Deutsche Bundespost carried pistols until the final takeover of the postal check offices (PSchA) in 1987 . To defend the value bag (in postal service parlance one speaks mostly of bags instead of sacks), these were rarely used. The postmen were familiarized with the pistols together with police officers in shooting ranges rented from the post office and retrained every six months.
Later, money orders and bank cards for withdrawals at the counter or at ATMs increasingly replaced the Deutsche Bundespost's money carriers. The post user receives his payment at the post office counter (just like at the time of the money messenger). Since 1993, no more money messengers have been equipped with handguns; these generally received cell phones. With the conversion of the Deutsche Bundespost into the Deutsche Post AG in January 1995, all money messengers were transferred from the delivery service to the counter service. In April 2002 the postal order was abolished as a service of the Deutsche Post AG.
Walter Spahrbier became the best-known mail carrier in Germany thanks to his extra role in the television programs Drei Mal Neun and Der Große Preis .
literature
- Article delivery service . In: Handwortbuch des Postwesens (2nd edition), Frankfurt 1953, pp. 822–823
Individual evidence
- ↑ Handwortbuch des Postwesens , Frankfurt (Main) 1953, published by the Federal Ministry for the Post and Telecommunications
- ↑ Postbank: Minute service replaces postal order ( memento of the original from September 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release from April 29, 2002 on postbank.de
