Postage card

The post card (short: PLK) was introduced on June 1, 1910 by the Deutsche Reichspost for a fee of 25 Pfennig (sub-unit of the gold mark ). The card entitles the holder to receive normal letter mail bearing the designation “Postlagkarte” and the number and name of the issuing postal service indicated on the card . Its importance was to protect letters without a personal address from being picked up by unauthorized persons. The postal authorities issued post office cards to anyone on request for an issuing fee, without requiring identification of the applicant. The period of validity was one month or, against payment of the fee, an eight-time extension for each month of validity. The maximum duration is therefore 9 months.

On June 1, 1991, the post card was abolished by the Deutsche Bundespost .

labeling

The address field was labeled according to the following pattern:

PLK 012345 C

1234 model town

Model country

Illegal use in the computer scene

Until they were abolished, post office cards were particularly popular in the cracker scene, as they did not require any personal data to be deposited with the respective post office compared to a regular mailbox . The PLK addresses were primarily used for the anonymous sending and receiving of letters with pirated copies on diskettes . The corresponding PLK addresses were found, for example, in the cracktros of the scene groups.

Individual evidence

↑ according to the template: inflation, this would correspond to today's purchasing power of 1.46 euros

literature

Manual dictionary of the postal system , published by the Federal Ministry for the Post and Telecommunications System , 2nd completely revised edition, Frankfurt am Main, 1953, page 533

Web links

Post card at www.phila-lexikon.de
1100 marks for a post card with Germania , Die Welt from November 24, 2001
The postage card

[1] rding to the template: inflation, this would correspond to today's purchasing power of 1.46 euros