Postal history of Norway
prehistory
On January 17, 1647, the governor in Norway Hannibal Sehested entrusted the administration of the postal system to the Dutchman Hendrik Morian for 20 years. With that the Norwegian Post was founded. Morian was the post office general director in Oslo. In the same year, he set up four main routes with Oslo as the starting point to bring the post into the country. Once there was the connection to Copenhagen via Gothenburg , Helsingbor, Helsingör, i.e. via Sweden. A second route led to Trondheim , the third to Bergen , and the fourth messenger line to Skien on the south coast of Norway. In 1786 there was a connection from Stavanger , on the southwest coast, to Bergen and Trondheim. These routes were the country's only regular postal service until 1814.
As early as 1689, the Norwegian post office was subordinate to the Danish one in Copenhagen. The postal newspaper service had already been introduced in 1660 . The newspaper was handwritten, its publisher was the director of the post office in Oslo and generated significant income.
Norwegian Post
In 1814 Denmark had to cede Norway to the King of Sweden in the Treaty of Kiel . The administration of the Norwegian Post was back in Oslo. In order to improve connections with other countries, the Norwegian Post Office bought two steamers in 1827. The old postal routes had been used as express mail since 1837.
The mail compulsion extended to the delivery of sealed letters and postcards . In addition to the post offices (Postkontorer) under the management of a Postmestere with a full range of postal services, there were the small “Postaapnere”, which were run by farmers, merchants or teachers on a part-time basis and in which the exchange of letters, insured letters and parcels as well, with special permission Postal order and the postal newspaper service took place. The institutions known as “Brevhus” were even smaller and only exchanged postage-free letters. In 1922 there were 108 post offices in Norway, 3122 Postaapnere and 673 Brevhus. There was no railway post office , railway posts and ship posts were directed by the post office. In 1949 there were 4766 post offices with 10,550 employees.
The freedom of postage enjoyed before the war except for the king and his family, only shipments in state and communal affairs as well as mild foundations and the health insurance companies a freedom limited to writings, lists and printed matter. After the war, this only applied to postal services.
The shipping point for collector's stamps of the Norwegian Post in Oslo presents its services in both Norwegian and English on the Internet.
literature
- Bob Lamb: Kingdom of Norway. In: American Philatelist October 2012 issue; from the series of articles / category Worldwide In A Nutshell
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.posten.no/frimerker Norwegian shipping point for collector's stamps