Pneumatic tube networks in Bohemia

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In the Austro-Hungarian crown land Bohemia two existed Rohrpostsysteme . The pneumatic tube network in Prague was opened in 1889 and is the only one left in the world today. A second system existed in Carlsbad (Karlovy Vary).

Pneumatic post Prague

See article: Prague pneumatic tube

The pneumatic tube network in Prague was opened to public transport on March 4, 1899. The first route that was used internally only existed since 1887. The Prague pneumatic tube system has a route network of 55 km and is currently the only and last pneumatic tube system in the world that is also accessible to the public. However, the pneumatic tube system was completely flooded by the Vltava flood in 2002 , operations have been suspended since then, and restoration has so far failed due to the lack of financial resources.

Karlsbad pneumatic tube

Certificate of posting for a telegram , canceled with a minute stamp of the post office Karlovy Vary 1 / Karlsbad 1 on July 17, 1936

The characteristics of pneumatic tube deliveries in Karlsbad have not been investigated enough. The line was presumably only a few hundred meters long and was probably only used in the internal service for forwarding urgent shipments. So far, no used pneumatic postal stationery or franked letters have become known that would have been posted for pneumatic post in Karlsbad. Postmarks with the inscription Karlovy Vary / Karlsbad are chipped on documents of the Telegraph Service of Karlsbad , which still have a three-digit time group after the date group, which speaks for a minute-by-minute documentation of the acceptance and processing of shipments, as is customary in the telegraph and pneumatic tube service.

After the annexation of the German-speaking Sudetenland by the German Reich according to the Munich Agreement , the Karlsbad post also came into the traffic area of ​​the Deutsche Reichspost . Express mail, airmail and pneumatic post shipments with German postage are possible from October 1938, as well as combinations with the pneumatic post in Berlin , Munich and, since the annexation of Austria, also with the pneumatic post in Vienna .

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