Petite Poste

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Petite Poste (German: small post) was a city postal company in Paris .

On March 5, 1758, the audit office official Humbert Piarron de Chamousset (1717–1773) received the approval for this city post and on June 9, 1760 the postal service began. The “big post” in France only delivered mail from place to place, but not within cities, which is why Chamousset founded this city post. Mail was initially distributed three times a day and later a maximum of nine times. The fees were to be paid in advance as standard and were 2 sous in the city center, 3 sous for the suburbs and 6 sous for onward transport with the “big post office”. Subsequently, further local postal companies were founded in France in Bordeaux , Lyon , Nantes , Rouen , Nancy , Strasbourg , Marseille and Lille . The merger of the small postal companies with the "big post" took place in 1780 in return for compensation payments.

The first Paris city post office existed as early as 1653–1654, set up by Jean-Jacques Renouard de Villayer .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Petite Poste (de Paris)

literature

  • Peter Fischer: Petite Poste. A local service in Paris. In: Deutsche Briefmarken-Zeitung (DBZ), No. 24, November 19, 2010, p. 63
  • Günter Formery: Small items - pioneers of the correspondence card . In: Maximaphile & Philokartie-REPORT No. 35 of November 2011, pp. 15-17
  • Wolfgang Maassen: Philately and Associations in the 19th Century , Publisher: Phil Creativ, Schwalmtal 2006, ISBN 978-3-932198-69-4 , pp. 25–31
  • Christoph Ozdoba: The French Petite Poste (continuation article). In: Berner Briefmarken Zeitung , from issue No. 9/2011, page 96 to No. 10/2011