Mail piece
Mail was a special type of freight consignment at the German post office . The items in question were items of freight that were transported with Kraftpost , the Post's passenger travel service. The type of shipment was introduced by the Reichspost in 1929 and was maintained in both German states after the Second World War until the post-travel service ended.
Mail items are considered since Jan. 30, 1929 mailings . These are consignments which, within the scope of the operational possibilities, could be delivered independently of the passenger's ride on the land power posts (buses). This possibility was set up in southern Germany at about the same time as the introduction of passenger transport on motor vehicle lines and then extended to the Reich territory from 1921. Mail pieces could weigh up to 100 kg.
The delivery and collection took place on the bus, there was an obligation to postage. The shipping methods registered , COD , Urgent and return receipt were allowed. Special fees were charged for bulky mail items and milk cans. Incidentally, the return of the empty jug was free of charge. The fees are published in the postal regulations for the postal service. The mail items also include bicycles and prams.
Postage was paid by purchasing a piece of mailing slip. The two-part sticky note with the inscription "POSTSTÜCK", task number and imprinted (also overprinted) or handwritten declaration of value was stuck to the mail item, the left part remained with the postman for accounting.
The type of broadcast survived in both German states after the Second World War.
In an official gazette of the Federal Post Office of September 1, 1948, there is talk of mail pieces up to 10, 20, 50 and 100 kg. If mail is posted regularly, the fees are reduced. In addition, 30 pfennigs per item and 75 pfennigs for a bicycle were charged for the arrival and departure of items of mail that arrived by rail or were to be transported on with it. On January 1, 1963, with the "change in postal charges" at the Federal Post Office, the charges for mail items also changed. Milk cans were only taken between producers and the dairy. The fee for this corresponded to the fee for mail items of the first weight level. On August 1, 1964, the mail piece became a Kraftpostgut and the mail piece posting slip became a Kraftpostvoucher . From 1971 the fee for bulky mail was no longer charged.
Mail items weighing up to 50 kg (from January 1, 1976: 25 kg) could be posted to the GDR's Deutsche Post . Here, too, they served to provide better postal services in the country.
literature
Wolfram Grallert, Waldemar Gruschke: Lexicon of Philately , 5th, revised and supplemented edition. Transpress VEB publishing house for transport, Berlin 1971, keyword mail item .
