Butcher mail

With the butcher post an early form of transport and delivery of mail and parcels by wandering, Cattle buying Metzger called. A Vogt from Tuttlingen declared when he took office in 1596: "The butchers and their horses are obliged to post rides."

Butcher mail was common in Baden , Württemberg and the Palatinate . There, the butchers also had the right to use a horn in order to get faster clearance at the stations. Sometimes they also had to make the horses available to private individuals. The butcher's post was then taken over in the 18th century by the Imperial Post Office under the management of Thurn und Taxis and the state postal service.

literature

Frank Arnau : Lexicon of Philately - An Encyclopedia of Postage Stamp Studies . Lingen Verlag, Cologne (1972)
Otto Freiherr von Taube: Die Metzgerpost - A novel and eight historical stories . Stollberg Verlag, Merseburg (1936)
Manual dictionary of the postal system , published by the Federal Ministry for the postal and telecommunications system . 2nd completely reworked edition. Frankfurt am Main 1953, pages:
- 381 (merchant post)
- 384 (monastery messengers)
- 438 (butcher's post)
Peter Fischer: The butcher's mail as the work of a guild. In: Deutsche Briefmarken-Zeitung / Collector Express (DBZ / se) issue No. 9/2007, p. 52; from the article series / category: Basic Knowledge - Philately from A to Z
Butcher mail . In: Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): German legal dictionary . tape 9 , issue 3/4 (edited by Heino Speer and others). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1993, ISBN 3-7400-0926-8 ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de ).