Post bus

Post buses are in different countries of the post in public transport used buses after the invention of the internal combustion engine , the stagecoaches had replaced. Just like their non-motorized predecessors, they often transport both passengers and mail , typically they used to be equipped with rolling mailboxes . In sparsely populated areas in particular, the joint transport of passengers and mail is often the only way to operate a bus route profitably. Other postal vehicles can be found in the list of postal vehicles .

• Examples
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  ÖBB-Postbus (Temsa Safari, built in 2005)

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  Double-deck post bus in St. Gallen

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  Mercedes-Benz O 317

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  Swedish Post "Skvader"

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  Postbus (2015)

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  Postbus at the ZOB Berlin (2016)

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  MAN Postbus

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  CarPostal France bus in Vienne

Country specifics

Europe

• Germany :
  • from 1905 to 1985 see Kraftpost
  • from 1949 to 1970 see Deutsche Post (GDR)
  • from 2013 to 2017 see Deutsche Post Mobility
• Austria : see Postbus (Austria)
• Switzerland : see Postbus
• Bus traffic in Liechtenstein is operated on behalf of LIEmobil by PostBus Liechtenstein Anstalt , a subsidiary of PostBus Schweiz AG.
• France : CarPostal France , a subsidiary of PostBus Schweiz AG, operates the urban transport services of some southern and eastern French municipalities.
• In Great Britain between 1967 (Wales) and 1968 (Scotland) and 2017 over two hundred Postbus routes were operated by the Royal Mail at times .
• In Ireland , An Post operated a Postbus service between Ennis and parts of County Clare from 1982 to 2004 .
• Italy : The city buses in the Sardinian city ​​of Nuoro , which originally transported mail and passengers together, are called “su postale” in Sardinian and “postalino” in Italian.
• Sweden : The Royal Swedish Post Office ( Kungliga Poststyrelsen ) also used buses and trucks combined with vehicles, which were known as combination buses or Skvaders .
• Czech Republic : ČSAD Autobusy České Budějovice as , a regional spin-off of the state-owned transport company ČSAD , which emerged from the Czechoslovak Postbus , has been a subsidiary of the Austrian ÖBB-Postbus GmbH since 2004 .

Africa

• The Ethiopian Postal Service operates Postbus connections in central Abyssinia between Addis Ababa , Adama and Asebe Teferi .
• The offer Poste Voyages of La Poste du Bénin offers joint transportation of passengers and mail in modern coaches.
• In Zambia , the Zambia Postal Services Corporation offers six Postbus connections.
• La Poste du Togo offers charter trips in Post's own coaches and since January 2010, under the name “Le Courrier”, regular connections on the routes Lomé - Cinkasse and Lomé - Kpalime .
• In Uganda , five postal bus routes are operated by Posta Uganda .

Asia

• The Cambodia Post VIP Van shuttle service operated by the Cambodian Post connects the capital Phnom Penh with the various parts of the country. EMS express shipments are also transported in the minibuses .

Oceania

• In the Whanganui National Park in the southwest of the North Island of New Zealand , the post bus (at least until 2016) was the only regular means of transport from Wanganui to Pipiriki .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Olivia Raths: "Vive la France" in Postbus yellow In: Tages-Anzeiger from August 2, 2013
2. ^ Royal Mail Postbus
3. ^ Gregor Julien Straube: With the post bus through Scotland. On the trail of a traffic-historical relic. In: Geo Travel & Countries. May 30, 2016, archived from the original . 
4. ↑ Last Postbus reaches the end of the road. In: The Scotsman, August 19, 2017.
5. ^ Gordon Deegan: Last stop for post bus as bosses put brakes on service In: Irish News of September 14, 2004
6. ↑ Svenska Spårvägssällskapet: PS no K90, Post- "Skvader" (Swedish)
7. ↑ Jemtlands veteranbilklubb: Postbuses (bottom of the page) ( Memento from September 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (Swedish)
8. ↑ ÖBB Postbus Unternehmensbeteiligungen , accessed December 29, 2019
9. ↑ General information about Ethiopian Post , accessed January 14, 2017
10. ↑ Postbus route in Ethiopia , accessed January 14, 2017
11. ↑ Les Bus de La Poste du Bénin , accessed March 16, 2016
12. ↑ Postbus Routes and Departure Time , accessed March 14, 2015
13. ↑ Location de bus | La Poste , accessed March 16, 2016
14. ↑ Bus “Le Courrier” , accessed May 27, 2017
15. ^ Posta Uganda Postbus
16. ↑ Tanja Uhde: With the post bus through Uganda. In: Deutsche Briefmarken-Zeitung. March 29, 2012, accessed July 17, 2014 . 
17. ↑ Cambodia Post VIP Van , accessed December 2, 2017
18. ↑ Authorized Bus Operators , accessed December 2, 2017
19. ↑ Cambodia Post - New Shuttle in Cambodia - VIP Passenger Transportation , accessed December 2, 2017
20. ↑ Travel - Destinations - Whanganui National Park. In: new-z.net. Archived from the original on March 18, 2016 . 

Web links

Wiktionary: Postbus  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Picture gallery: From Ethiopia to Switzerland - Post buses worldwide on the pages of the Universal Postal Union