Union Postale
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| description | Members' magazine of the Universal Postal Union |
| Area of Expertise | Postal, communication, transport, logistics |
| language | French (main edition) , German , English , Spanish , Arabic , Chinese , Russian |
| publishing company | International Office of the Universal Postal Union , Bern ( Switzerland ) |
| First edition | October 1, 1875 |
| Frequency of publication | Quarterly |
| Editor-in-chief | Mrs. Faryal Mirza |
| editor | International Office of the Universal Postal Union , Bern |
| Web link | Union Postal |
| Article archive | Archive since 2003 |
| ISSN (print) | 0041-7009 |
Union Postale , originally "L'Union Postale" , is the name of the publication of the Universal Postal Union , which has appeared in Bern since 1875 and is the official organ of the International Office of the Universal Postal Union. Since issue 1/2007 the subtitle “The postal sector on the advance” has been introduced and with issue 3/2009 added “since 1875” .
The magazine reports on the activities of the Universal Postal Union as well as on events and developments in the worldwide postal sector. It contains reports on important and current issues affecting the postal sector, as well as interviews with leading figures from the world of the postal service. The publication, which appears in color, is distributed to the postal operators in the 192 member countries and serves as a source of information. Union Postale is printed on Forest Stewardship Council -certified paper and with sustainably produced inks.
Speech output
From October 1, 1875, the magazine appeared in three languages: French , German and English . All three languages were on the same page side by side, each in a separate column. Thus the reader could expand his foreign language skills at the same time if he wanted. By resolution of the VIII Universal Postal Congress in Madrid in 1920 , Spanish was added as the language of publication . The articles were still in columns in the monthly magazine.
After the Second World War was on the XII. The Universal Postal Congress in Paris in 1947 decided to expand the magazine to include Arabic and Chinese and to replace German with Russian . At the next Universal Postal Congress in Brussels in 1952 , German was again permitted as the language of publication. Due to this large number of languages, printing in several columns was no longer possible and it was decided to produce a separate edition for each language, with the monthly French edition being the main edition, including any charts and graphics. The other language versions are then printed and only contain the translated text. In the 1980s at the latest, it was changed over to publication every two months and in 1999 at the latest to quarterly publication. It has only been since 2007 that each language publication has been appearing with the same layout and the respective images.