Postal flag
The sovereign flag of a state postal service provider is called the postal flag . In the course of the respective postal reforms and the abolition of the letter monopoly and the opening of the letter delivery markets, there are virtually no valid postal flags any more. Flags of private postal companies are not included.
Use on ships
On ships, the post flag indicates whether there is post on board. In the times in which the business of mail to the sovereign functions of a country among the post flag was often the national flag like emblem . Most postal systems are now privatized worldwide, so that it is no longer a sovereign task, but a commercial enterprise that is no longer marked by a special flag. In addition, the most frequented mail route today is air freight ( air mail ). For these reasons, you will hardly come across the postal flag in seafaring on the high seas . See also: mail ship .
Different postal flags
Universal Postal Union
Germany
Postal flag until 1892
Gösch of the mail ships, German Empire until 1892
Reichspostflagge from 1892 to 1918
Service flag of the Deutsche Post of the GDR from 1959 to 1973
Flag of the Deutsche Post of the GDR from 1975 to 1990
Federal post flag of the German Federal Post Office from 1950 to 1994
Postal signal flag 1950 to 1994
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Other countries
Denmark
Estonia
Postal flag of the Romanian Navy from 1939
Russia
Japan
Norway
Spain (by sea) Pabellón para Correos Marítimos
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Ship flagging: Post flag on flaggenlexikon.de
