Pneumatic tube networks in Italy
Pneumatic post Florence
Express deliveries arriving in Florence - often in combination with posta pneumatica , if these consignments came from Milan, Napoli or Roma - were forwarded to Florence for delivery using the local pneumatic tube network. These shipments have the front-mounted mark-off of a numerator stamp, which is characteristic of pneumatic post in many places. It is not known whether it was possible to post items by pneumatic tube in Florence.
Genoa pneumatic tube
The first attempts to develop a pneumatic tube network ( posta pneumatica ) in Italy date back to the 1850s, when a 12 km long pneumatic tube network was developed in Genoa. More than 100 years later, corresponding letters with posting and arrival stamps prove that the pneumatic tube system in Genoa was working . Further systematic attempts to develop a pneumatic tube system were made in Turin since 1911 . However, in 1913, general and public pneumatic transport was only started in Milan , Naples and Rome . One of the extremely rare pneumatic tube letters from Genoa with the corresponding franking by pneumatic tube stamps from 1946 is shown.
Pneumatic tube Milan
After preliminary work in Genoa and Turin, pneumatic post operations began in Milan in 1913, together with corresponding operations in Rome and Naples. A pneumatic tube shipment from the local traffic in Milan from 1925 is shown, which is franked with a pneumatic tube stamp. The designation pneumatica can be read very clearly in the stamp .
Pneumatic post Naples
After preliminary work in Genoa and Turin, pneumatic post operations began in Naples in 1913, together with corresponding operations in Milan and Rome. An envelope of the pneumatic tube in Naples from 1957 is franked with Italian European stamps and handed over as an international airmail letter of the pneumatic tube for faster forwarding to the air post office. The postage stamps are canceled with the unusual red stamp of the pneumatic post office of Vomero, a suburb of Naples.
Pneumatic tube Rome
After preliminary work in Genoa and Turin, pneumatic post operation was started in Rome in 1913, together with corresponding operations in Milan and Naples. A registered pneumatic tube letter, which was processed by the Roman pneumatic tube post, from 1929 is shown.
Pneumatic post Trieste
The timing of the establishment of a pneumatic tube service in Trieste is not known. However, telegram forms from the Imperial and Royal Postal Administration for Trieste are known in which a field is provided in the form in Italian for handwritten completion, indicating when the shipment was handed over to posta pneumatica . It is not known whether and how the Trieste pneumatic tube system was used after the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy as part of the Italian postal administration.
Pneumatic post Turin
After the first tests in Genoa, around 1910, a test operation for a pneumatic tube was started in Turin. However, this initially had no further consequences for the city, because in 1913 the public pneumatic tube service was initially only permitted for Milan, Naples and Rome. It is not known to what extent the pneumatic tube was later used in Turin.
Pneumatic post Città del Vaticano
Letters with pneumatic tube stamps from the Città del Vaticano are not common. Hence the fact that the Vatican was connected to the Roman pneumatic tube system is little known. The postmark shown here from November 11, 1977, however, shows the Vatican's pneumatic tube connection to the Roman pneumatic tube network. In fact, the Vatican's pneumatic tube system did not function as its own pneumatic tube network, but only like a stub line of the Roman pneumatic tube system that was placed in extraterritorial national territory. It is not known since when the Vatican's postal administration had a pneumatic tube connection with the Roman post office. It is also not known whether this is still in operation.
Web links
- Buispost.eu Many pictures of pneumatic post stamps from Italy