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Post barges were a means of transport of the Deutsche Reichspost in the Port of Hamburg from 1912 to the beginning of the First World War and then from 1930 to March 30, 1945.
According to the postal regulations valid at the time, ships that could be reached from land had to be supplied with mail. Since this did not apply to ships that were "in the current", ie at Duckdalben , the Deutsche Reichspost chartered barges from 1930 to carry mail. The tour through the Hamburg harbor basin was carried out daily and had a length of 25 km.
The letter transferring board the barge from was a seven-meter-long Empire rod from bamboo carried out; For the transport of parcels or registered mail , however, the ship had to be entered via fall ladders or Jacob's ladders . A diorama of such an action was on view in the Museum for Communication in Hamburg .
One of the post launches still preserved today is the "Jan", built in 1928 at the student shipyard in Uetersen , former name until 1964 "Adolf 4". Until September 2009 the “Jan” was used by the Barkassen-Centrale Ehlers in cooperation with the Museum for Communication for post-historical tours in the Port of Hamburg. After the museum closed in autumn 2009, these tours were discontinued. Currently (2016) the barge bears the name "Jan Ehlers".