Post buoy
The post buoy (also post bin ) is a special form of the mailbox . Similar to the latter, the post buoy can have two functions: on the one hand, to receive mail and, on the other hand, to serve as a post box intended for posting , which is attached to a buoy . The special thing about the post buoy is that it can only be reached by water. It is mainly used for tourist attraction. Due to this rarity, the post buoy is also often the subject of April Fools jokes or sailor's thread .
history
reception
The Tin Can Mail (= tin can mail ) has existed on the island state of Tonga since 1882 . Between 1909 and 1955 there was a contract with the barrel mail called Barrel Mail to deliver mail to the Cocos Islands . The Orient Steam Navigation Company and from 1917 the P&O Line took over the delivery .
shipping
Since 1991 the sailing club Garbsen eV has been operating a private post buoy in Steinhuder Meer at position 52 ° 29 ′ 34.9 ″ N , 9 ° 21 ′ 43.5 ″ E during the sailing season, from early May to mid-September. The mailings inserted are collected by association members at least twice a week - according to the newspaper, however, less often, in fact quite irregularly - and handed over to the post office in Wunstorf for further transport. Every year there are around 2000 - according to the sailing club, however, only 1200 - mail items. This post buoy goes back to an idea that Gottfried Luchmann, the then director of the sailing school of the DHH at Steinhuder Meer, developed in the 1964 season; however, this sailing school was given up in 1987.
The first official post buoy of the Deutsche Bundespost was laid out on June 24, 1984 in the Kiel Fjord . The reason was the visit of the delegates of the XIX. Universal Postal Congress that met in Hamburg. There was another official post buoy as part of the 500th birthday of the Post in 1990 and was unveiled on the occasion of the 801st port birthday in Hamburg between the Überseebrücke and Landungsbrücken , into which sailors and barge drivers could drop their mail. She got a special cancellation.
The field post of the Bundeswehr or the German Navy offers a semi-official post buoy at events where they operate a field post office. This was for example at the Hanse Sail 2008 to 2011 ( naval base Warnemünde ) and at the Kieler Woche 2010 ( naval base Kiel ).
The northernmost bucket in the Baltic Sea is the Törehamn post bucket .
Name sponsorship
The »Postboje für Seemannswrauen« is a magazine that has been published by the Association of Seemannswrauen since 1985 .
literature
- Bernd Steinert, Bonn: Buoypost - field post from the Hanse Sail 2008. In: philatelie - The magazine of the Association of German Philatelists, issue 377, November 2008, volume 60, pp. 38–41
- B. Braun, M. Burzan: Floating mailboxes. In: Deutsche Briefmarken-Zeitung issue No. 9/2007, pp. 10–13
- Elke Schneider: Floating mailboxes. In: Das Archiv issue No. 4/2007, p. 50 f
- Bernd Steinert: Again buoy field post from Warnemünde. In: Deutsche Briefmarken-Revue edition 9/2009, p. 13 f
Web links
- South Africa Post - Post buoys in the Cape Town sea area - no seaman's yarn! Postal history from Cape Town - South Africa / The westernmost mailbox in Europe is located in the middle of the Atlantic by Ch. Biedekarken, according to a report by the ship's management of the MS Westfalia. Contrary to expectations, post buoys are not a seaman's thread
- Hard to starboard
Individual evidence
- ↑ The sea region in the network. In: Steinhude-am Meer.de. Retrieved December 14, 2019 .
- ^ An April Fool's Day article with the post buoy
- ↑ Seemanswelt, Anchor : The Post Buoy
- ↑ Sea motifs - floating mail containers!
- ↑ The history of the post bin since 1964 on the pages of the Garbsen sailing club
- ^ Post buoy Steinhuder Meer . Segelclub Garbsen eV Accessed January 23, 2020.
- ↑ The post buoy at Steinhude am Meer
- ↑ The post buoy at Steinhude am Meer (Steinhuder Meer Tourismus GmbH)
- ↑ Kieler Woche 1984 Postboje Dampfer Otto Treplin ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The post buoy of the field post (private homepage)
- ^ RCC Pilotage Foundation: Baltic Sea and Approaches . Imray, Laurie, Norie and Wilson Ltd, 2019, p. 241 , ISBN 9781846238925 .
- ↑ Verband der Seemannsfrauen eV (direct web link to the magazine is unfortunately no longer possible, therefore linked to the main page)
