List of postal vehicles
The list of postal vehicles comprises a selection of vehicles of all types that are or have been used for the transport of postal items and are mostly owned by a postal company.
Land vehicles
Muscle powered
For direct mail delivery :
Postal bike in the Paris Postal Museum
Post sledge ( Liechtenstein )
Motorized
Street
- Example: Hercules Lastboy , a moped from Hercules-Werke that was developed primarily for the transport of mail by the Deutsche Bundespost
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Scooter
- Heinkel Tourist , partly with a sidecar, a special trailer was developed for the Heinkel Tourist that could be driven directly under it to empty mailboxes.
- Zündapp Bella, Zündapp RS 50
- VW Fridolin
- A small delivery van specially developed for the transport of mail by the Deutsche Bundespost
- Example: A common means of transport between the Hühnerposten railway post office and Hamburg-Altona train station
- Streetscooter
- Trucks
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Omnibuses ( Postbuses )
- Postbus (Austria) (formerly Austrian Post , today ÖBB )
- Postbus ( Swiss Post )
- Kraftpost (Germany), mostly also used for passenger transport; Direct successor to the stagecoach, postal service since 1965, still available in Austria today
Delivery by moped (Thailand)
Phenomenon 4RL / K, built in 1928, country mail car of the Reichspost
Swiss post bus in typical colors
Austrian post bus
Transporter with plastic high roof made for Deutsche Post
side walk
- Companion robot ( Postbot ; 2018-2019)
rail
- Rail mail
- In the early days, trams also served as postal vehicles.
- Post tram in Frankfurt am Main (1901 to 1951)
- From 1914 to 1932, mail and parcel transport between Harland and St. Pölten was taken over by the St. Pölten tram (Austria).
- At the beginning of the 20th century Zurich, the trams Zurich ↔ Höngg ↔ Limmattal were hanged by the Post.
- Post- U-Bahn were used to transport items internally, e. For example, the Munich from 1910 to 1988 ( Fig. ), The London Post Office Railway from 1927 to 2004 and a subway in Zurich from 1938 to 1981. All of them drove without a driver and were controlled by a machine operator.
- Post lore
- On the Halligbahn Dagebüll – Oland – Langeneß , some mail was delivered with sailing lorries, and there were also trailers on trams.
Former wagon of the railway post office 32 (Leipzig) of the Deutsche Post of the GDR .
TGV postal ( La Poste, France , 2007)
Parcel InterCity ( DHL , 2016)
Transport with animals
- Postreiter (messenger on horseback , rare today)
Postreiter (Germany, Saxony )
- Stagecoaches (historical)
Stagecoach ( Switzerland , Brig )
Stagecoach (Germany, Saxony )
- Post sledge ( Deutsche Reichspost , originally from 1939 in the Ore Mountains / Vogtland , today only in the Tharandt Forest )
Mail carriage (Germany, Saxony )
Watercraft
- Mail boats
- Post barges , e.g. T. in the Mecklenburg Lake District and in the Spreewald
- Post launch in the port of Hamburg
- Post ships , in Norway: Hurtigruten
- Mail sailors , e.g. B. Hiorten
- Cable layers (not for the transport of mail)
DHL cargo boat in Murano
Post barge in Lehde
Seekabelleger Navire câblier "Fresnel" of France Télécom , Strait of Gibraltar, 1998 (decommissioned in 2003)
The Polarlys - a new generation Hurtigruten ship in the current colors
Aircraft
- see also: Airmail , Airmail on the Rhine and on the Main
- Freight aircraft , for example Blohm & Voss BV 142 , which was specially developed for transatlantic mail flights .
- Flying boats
- Short Mayo Composite , a combination of a four-engine flying boat and a four-engine floatplane
- Blohm & Voss Ha 139 , a seaplane developed for the catapult launch of ships for the transport of mail.
- Balloon mail (including in France, Germany, Poland; historically)
- Mail rocket (1930s, experimental)
- Unmanned aircraft for parcels, so-called "DHL Parcelcopter" (from September 26, 2014 in trial operation between Juist and the north )
Airbus A300 B4-200 of DHL
Flying boat Felixstowe F 5L of the United States Postal Service , 1922
See also
- Category: Mail transport
- Pneumatic tube systems (no vehicles)
Web links
- Heimatmuseum Wasserburg: picture of a mail sledge
- Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunications, image: Postschltten in the mountains
- Image: Sail lorry for mail delivery starts to the Halligen Oland and Langeness
- Post trucks behind a tram in Zurich, picture 4 and 5 from above
- Special postmark of the Deutsche Post AG with a picture of a post truck
- Postmoped.de
- Electric vehicles at US Post and UPS
- Association for the Preservation of Historic Postal Goods e. V.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Last Boy
- ↑ Heinkel Tourist
- ↑ listed at Deutsche Post - Post Collection - Vehicle models
- ↑ Zündapp Bella
- ↑ Zündapp RS 50
- ↑ https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Deutsche-Post-entwickelt-neue-Zustellroboter-4225755.html
- ↑ https://www.internetworld.de/e-commerce/logistik/post-stoppt-ausbau-postbot-anderen-technologien-1674979.html
- ^ Trams Zurich ↔ Höngg ↔ Limmattal ( Memento of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ www.dpdhl.com ( Memento from February 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Press
- ↑ "Paketkopter": Post launches drone to Juist Island. In: Spiegel Online . September 24, 2014, accessed January 21, 2017 .