Post office

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Post house sign: Posthülfstelle and a post agency , at the post agency the inscription quays. away.
Post office sign with the post office. Postage stamp from the last year of the GDR , small issue (Michel No. 3305).

Auxiliary Postal Agency (then known as Posthülfstellen called) were institutions of the post in the 19th century, which were awarded to private parties to the postal service on the "flat land" to ensure similar to the postal agencies of today. They were created around 1897 (in Bavaria in April 1897 on a trial basis) and were established across the board from October 1, 1898 after the reorganization in Bavaria and the German Empire.

Services

The post office services handle the delivery of postage stamps and forms as well as the acceptance of normal letters and parcels. Post help centers were administered by local residents as an unpaid honorary post. For the inhabitants of the "flat country" it was a relief to be able to hand in their letters and parcels at the innkeeper or in the local grocery store. The administrators handed the consignments delivered to the country postman or the post coaches that touched the town and received the consignments for their customers. The consignments could then be picked up immediately at the post office. Since 1888 the postman started to have the mail delivered once or twice a week, there is even talk of a Sunday delivery. The postman was allowed to keep the order money collected, it should be sufficient as compensation for his efforts.

The receipt of instructions, registered mail and items of value was only a matter of trust between the sender and the owner of the post office. It only turned into a mail item upon arrival at a post office . Nothing about that changed until 1995.

history

The post offices were created in the imperial post area when the rural postal service was reorganized in 1881 as a new subordinate category of PAnst to support the rural postal service. The tasks assigned to the post offices were the same as in the early 1950s, but the owners of the post office at that time did not initially deal with the delivery of mail; the recipients had to pick up all shipments. In the summer of 1888, a delivery service was introduced to a limited extent on an experimental basis in some districts of the Upper Post Office. It extended to the removal of incoming letters and newspapers, unless the PHSt were in the delivery districts of rural deliverers, as well as the removal of parcels with no value indication. The PHSt holders or, on their behalf, their family members or other suitable persons took care of the delivery. The introduction of delivery proved to be advantageous for the post office and the population, as it relieved the burden on the rural delivery staff and thus improved and accelerated the entire rural delivery service. In the spring of 1889 the delivery service was therefore introduced at the PHSt in all administrative districts. Württemberg established the PHSt for the first time on August 1, 1887, and Bavaria in 1897.

Their number in the Reichspost area was:

  • 1882: 1.142
  • 1892: 13.318
  • 1902: 18.178
  • 1913: 18.991
  • 1924: 14,602 (including Bavaria and Württemberg)
  • 1930: 12,326
  • 1939: 5,365

Between 1881 and 1887 a total of 7,560 post office assistance points were set up in rural areas; in 1913 there were already 25,683. Since the establishment of the empire , the number of post offices had risen from 5,430 to 7,308 from 1872 to January 1, 1880, the number of country mail carriers from 10,205 to 12,000 and the number of country mailboxes from 17,242 to 28,066. In connection with the expansion of the connections, the mail volume in the "flat country" rose by almost 40%. In some German colonies , too, there were auxiliary post offices until 1914, which primarily served to convey pure correspondence.

In Bavaria, so-called “Postablagen” were converted into postal agencies or post office auxiliary points on November 1st, 1898. The postal services received an official rubber stamp.

The supply of the rural residents did not start in 1881. In the Prussian postal order of November 26th, 1782 it was ordered that small towns, spots and villages where no post office were located, as well as individual apartments, as monasteries, fort houses, outbuildings for traveling posts etc. are passed without detour (detour) of the postilion, so the post can be changed there. A change occurred in 1824 when Frankfurt (Oder) began to regularly deliver letters and small parcels to the surrounding villages twice a week and to collect mail. The messenger received a monthly wage of 6 thalers, an annual boot allowance of 6 thalers and a skirt, for which they had to cover 3 to 4 miles in the round. In the tax regulation of 1824, the old regulation, i.e. the exchange of mail with the passing posts, was revived. In 1852 a monthly fee of 5 silver groschen was charged for this service, for the exchange of postal bags. In order to improve the supply of postal customers in the country, the number of country mail carriers was constantly increased. It was considered to equip them with small chariots or to make them mounted.

In the course of the reorganization of the postal conditions in the country in 1928, numerous PHSt were converted into Post Offices II.

Often the post offices were set up in places of excursions, mostly in restaurants. Postmarks from small places in the "flat country" and from small suburbs of large cities are quite rare. However, some post office stamps can be found well into the 1950s.

stamp

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Puche: Post and Telegraphenwesen, in: Heinrich Schnee (Hrsg.): Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon . Volume III, Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, pp. 89ff.

literature

  • Concise dictionary of the postal system :
    • 1st edition, pp. 457-458
    • 2nd edition, pp. 526-527
  • Joachim Helbig: Post notes on letters 15-18. Century . New views on the postal history of the early modern period and the city of Nuremberg. Herbert Utz Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8316-0945-1 .
  • Statistics of the Reich Post and Telegraph Administration 1881; P. 75 ff.
  • Archive for Post and Telegraphy, published on behalf of the Reich Post Ministry, publisher: Postzeitungsamt, Berlin W, 1890, p. 225 ff.