List of postal vehicles

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The list of postal vehicles comprises a selection of vehicles of all types that are or have been used for the transport of postal items and are mostly owned by a postal company.

Electric street scooter (in-house production by Deutsche Post)

Land vehicles

Muscle powered

For direct mail delivery :

  • Postal bike in the Paris Postal Museum

  • Post bicycle with auxiliary motor

  • Mail bike for three containers

  • Letter and parcel trolleys at the Prussian Post in the 19th century

  • Pocket wagon

  • modern delivery cart

  • Post sledge ( Liechtenstein )

Motorized

Street

Example: Hercules Lastboy , a moped from Hercules-Werke that was developed primarily for the transport of mail by the Deutsche Bundespost
  • Scooter
    • Heinkel Tourist , partly with a sidecar, a special trailer was developed for the Heinkel Tourist that could be driven directly under it to empty mailboxes.
    • Zündapp Bella, Zündapp RS 50
  • VW Fridolin
A small delivery van specially developed for the transport of mail by the Deutsche Bundespost
Electric carts with trailers (Deutsche Post der GDR)
Example: A common means of transport between the Hühnerposten railway post office and Hamburg-Altona train station
Streetscooter
GDR post moped S51 B2-4

  • Hercules Last Boy

  • Heinkel Tourist

  • Delivery by moped (Thailand)

  • Electric parcel delivery van around 1930

  • Phenomenon 4RL / K, built in 1928, country mail car of the Reichspost

  • Post electric vehicle (Brazil)

  • DHL delivery vehicle

  • Swiss post bus in typical colors

  • Austrian post bus

  • Transporter with plastic high roof made for Deutsche Post

  • View into the Volkswagen Caddy Type 2K from Deutsche Post AG

  • View into the Volkswagen Caddy Type 2K from Deutsche Post AG

  • Street scooter as an electric delivery van for the Post (prototype 2013)

side walk

rail
Post tram in Frankfurt am Main (1901 to 1951)
From 1914 to 1932, mail and parcel transport between Harland and St. Pölten was taken over by the St. Pölten tram (Austria).
At the beginning of the 20th century Zurich, the trams Zurich ↔ Höngg ↔ Limmattal were hanged by the Post.
  • Post- U-Bahn were used to transport items internally, e. For example, the Munich from 1910 to 1988 ( Fig. ), The London Post Office Railway from 1927 to 2004 and a subway in Zurich from 1938 to 1981. All of them drove without a driver and were controlled by a machine operator.
  • Post lore
On the Halligbahn Dagebüll – Oland – Langeneß , some mail was delivered with sailing lorries, and there were also trailers on trams.

Transport with animals

  • Postreiter (Germany, Saxony )

  • Mail carriage (Germany, Saxony )

Watercraft

  • DHL cargo boat in Murano

  • DHL mail boat in Amsterdam

  • Seekabelleger Navire câblier "Fresnel" of France Télécom , Strait of Gibraltar, 1998 (decommissioned in 2003)

  • The Polarlys - a new generation Hurtigruten ship in the current colors

Aircraft

see also: Airmail , Airmail on the Rhine and on the Main
Short Mayo Composite , a combination of a four-engine flying boat and a four-engine floatplane
Blohm & Voss Ha 139 , a seaplane developed for the catapult launch of ships for the transport of mail.

See also

Web links

Commons : Postal Vehicles  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Last Boy
  2. ↑ Heinkel Tourist
  3. ↑ listed at Deutsche Post - Post Collection - Vehicle models
  4. ↑ Zündapp Bella
  5. ↑ Zündapp RS 50
  6. ↑ https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Deutsche-Post-entwickelt-neue-Zustellroboter-4225755.html
  7. ↑ https://www.internetworld.de/e-commerce/logistik/post-stoppt-ausbau-postbot-anderen-technologien-1674979.html
  8. ^ Trams Zurich ↔ Höngg ↔ Limmattal ( Memento of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ www.dpdhl.com ( Memento from February 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Press
  10. ↑ "Paketkopter": Post launches drone to Juist Island. In: Spiegel Online . September 24, 2014, accessed January 21, 2017 .