Cabinet Post Office

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The cabinet post office in Berlin was set up in 1860 under the name " Expedition for the Royal House's Postal Items ". It handled the mail of the court and a number of high authorities. The cabinet post office was canceled on July 1, 1919.

It was housed in the post office property on Königstrasse . It was directly subordinate to the Oberpostdirektion Berlin and arithmetically assigned to the court post office . The head was most recently a senior postal secretary as "representative of the senior postal director".

Name changes

In 1864 the name was changed from “Expedition for the Royal House's Mail” to “Cabinets Expedition” and in 1876 to “Cabinet Post Office” without a special order.

tasks

The cabinet post office was responsible for the processing of the mailpieces of the court and a number of high authorities such as the Department of State, Ministry of War (for the Most cabinet orders), the Foreign Office , Ministry of the Interior , Reich Treasury etc.

Processing according to special regulations: foreign mail from the Foreign Office and mail for the Kaiser and his entourage were carried by cabinet mail carriers who also traveled as postal couriers between Berlin and the respective court camps. The postal couriers also carried foreign mail from the Foreign Office to the border.

resolution

After the end of the First World War , it was canceled on July 1, 1919, as the scope of business had decreased considerably. The work of the cabinet post office has been transferred to the letter post office in Berlin C2 ( Königstrasse 61 / 62a, Heiligegeiststrasse 24/33) and the main post office W8 in Französische Strasse 9-12 in Berlin.

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