Post expedition

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Postage stamp of the GDR 1990 : Post house sign of the Fürstlich Thurn- und Taxisschen Lehnspost-Expedition of the Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt , Blankenburg

As postal expeditions were since the 18th century in some German states and states Connected small, means the actual post offices subordinate post offices.

There were postal expeditions at the former Prussian Post and its successor organizations, the Postal Administration of the North German Confederation and the Reich Postal Administration . There were also postal expeditions in Bavaria and Württemberg.

The postal expeditions today would correspond to a postal agency .

Prussia

Post house sign of the North German Federal Post 1868–71

The Prussian postal expeditions emerged from the post office attendants established under Friedrich Wilhelm I. These were assigned to the nearest post office with regard to cash and accounting, but were otherwise directly under the general post office .

The administration of the post office was usually entrusted to local residents as a sideline. Occasionally the Stein-Hardenberg administrative reform , which also brought about some changes in the post office system, were given the name "Postexpedition" without changing their accounting under the post offices. This name persisted even after the creation of the Oberpostdirektion in 1850.

However, the subordination of the postal expeditions to the post offices ceased. The expeditions were divided into classes I and II; the heads of the mail expedition 1st class were terminable specialist officials with the official designation postexpeditient , those of the second class part-time local residents with the designation postexpediteur . Both classes settled directly with the Oberpostkasse.

In 1871 the mail expeditions 1st class were converted into postal administrations , while the mail expeditions 2nd class kept their name without any addition. In 1876 (occasionally the merger of telegraphy with the post office) the postal expeditions were renamed “Postämter III. Class ”, which was managed by specialist officials.

Bavaria

At the Bavarian Post , the postal expeditions were created in 1808 when the Bavarian state took over the Taxis postal service . They were subordinate to the upper post offices, mostly united with the post offices and transferred to private individuals. In 1898 either Post Offices III took the place of the postal expeditions. Class or post agencies or post offices in places with little traffic.

Württemberg

The Württembergische Post took over the name Postexpedition when Taxis Post was transferred to state administration in 1851. It applied to the post office without a post office , while the post office with a post office was called post offices. In 1876 this distinction was abolished and the postal expeditions were also given the name Post Office.

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