Mail run
The mail run or the transit time quota describes the length of time that a mail item needs from the posting point to the recipient .
In the narrower sense, the mail run is also the period of time in which a mailing from a post office to the clerk is required internally (after the mail has been checked ) (counted from the incoming mail). The latter process usually only takes a few hours or minutes, less often days.
history
Before the establishment of stagecoaches , letters were often on the move for several weeks, unless they were transported to post stations by Estafette on postal courses with changing riders and horses . Already in the postal contract of 1505 between Philipp the Beautiful and Franz von Taxis there were fixed transport times for summer and winter, whereby, for example, the transport time from Brussels to Innsbruck in summer could not be longer than five and a half days.
Country-specific situations
Australia
In Australia, the continent to have because of the size letter boxes of Australia Post provided the respective postal delivery times in working days. There are five different categories. In the first category, delivery on the next working day can only be guaranteed for the local metropolis, and in some cases also for the area around the local metropolis. If it goes further away, there are differences whether the shipment is still in the same state (usually two working days) or moves to a different state. For other states, a distinction is also made between metropolises and capital cities or rural areas. The delivery can then take between three and four working days.
Germany
In Germany, the prescribed mail flow for letters and postcards at Deutsche Post AG is "E + 1", which means "dropping in day + 1 working day". After one working day of mail delivery, letter mail (letters and postcards) in Germany will be sent to the mainland. For advertising mail / Infopost , the default at Deutsche Post in Germany is E + 4.
According to the established case law of the Federal Court of Justice , postal customers (meaning customers of Deutsche Post AG) must be able to rely on delivery [within Germany] on the next working day in order to meet deadlines vis-à-vis authorities and courts.
“A party can in principle trust that mail posted in Germany on working days will be delivered on the following working day. Without concrete evidence, an appellant therefore does not have to reckon with postal delivery times that justify the serious risk of missing the deadline. "
This only applies to compliance with deadlines vis-à-vis authorities and courts. To comply with deadlines in the private sector (e.g. to comply with a period of notice), the time of actual delivery or, if it is proven that it has been posted in the mailbox (e.g. by registered mail), the time at which the next removal can usually be expected applies .
According to information from Deutsche Post AG, over 95 percent of mail reaches the recipient on the German mainland on the following working day. However, a sample from the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Economic Affairs only came to just under 90 percent in the summer of 2009. According to the reaction of the Post, it could be due to the different database of 700,000 letters (postal measurement) and 128 letters in the Ministry's sample.
The Federal Network Agency , which is also responsible for competition in the German postal network market , relies on figures provided by Swiss Post. Tests by the authority have not existed since 2004. The Post has commissioned the Hamburg-based Quotas Institute, which is certified by TÜV in accordance with DIN EN 13850.
Elmar Müller, board member of the Post User Association DVPT , says: “We urgently demand independent measurements by the Federal Network Agency.” Only since the Post has had its delivery rate tested on its own has it achieved these percentages; previously it was six to eight percentage points lower.
The third EU Postal Directive from 2010 stipulates independent quality checks by the authorities across Europe. The necessary amendment to the Postal Act was not implemented.
Mail run in philately
The various postal companies issue postage stamps with motifs of mail transport or the mail flow at irregular intervals. The transport from the sender to the recipient is sometimes shown on several stamps of a series of motifs:
- 2007 stamps issued by the Federal Republic of Germany
Boy is writing a letter ...
... and throws it into a post box .
The postman hands the letter to the recipient ...
... she reads the letter.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Exact wording of the contract of 1505 at Rübsam: Johann Baptista von Taxis , pp. 188–197; see also Dallmeier: Sources on the history of the European postal system, part II, document regesta , pp. 3–4.
- ↑ Runtime speed. Deutsche Post, 2007, archived from the original on December 3, 2008 ; Retrieved December 3, 2008 .
- ↑ http://www.urbs.de/archiv/recht/change.htm?recht157.htm
- ↑ http://www.betriebsrat.de/portal/lexikon-fuer-die-taegliche-betriebsratsarbeit.html/do/lexikondetail/letter/Z/shortlink/zugang-einer-erklaerung
- ↑ Test by the Ministry of Economic Affairs: Post arrives later than the company says in the Rhein Main Presse on October 3, 2009
- ↑ https://www.deutschepost.de/de/q/qualitaet_gelb.html
- ↑ Harald Czycholl: Speed test: That is how slow Deutsche Post is when it comes to deliveries. In: welt.de . November 25, 2012, accessed October 7, 2018 .
