World Postal Congress 1906

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VI. Universal Postal Congress
Venue Rome , Italy
Period April 7 to May 23, 1906
First international reply coupon

The sixth Universal Postal Congress took place in 1906 in the Italian capital Rome . The congress achieved substantial fee reductions in letter correspondence and improvements in mailing regulations in various areas to promote traffic. Among other things, consignments for prisoners of war and the international reply coupons for letters worth the fee of a simple letter were introduced and were valid from 1907.

The facilities of the Universal Postal Union were now so well developed and internally expanded that holding a congress was not urgent for a long time. The next congress should have taken place in Madrid in September 1914. Thanks to its well-established organization, which had proven itself for many years, the Universal Postal Union survived the tremors caused by the First World War . After that, however, the need for a new Congress emerged with greater urgency, because the transport links required renewal and the changes that had occurred in the currencies of the countries required new agreements. The next Universal Postal Congress took place in Madrid after the First World War in 1920.

literature

  • Concise dictionary of the postal system :
    • 1st edition; 1926: pp. 683-684
    • 2nd Edition; 1953: p. 780 (same article as in the 1st edition with additions)
    • 1st supplement to the 2nd edition; 1956: Erwin Müller-Fischer: Timeline for the history of the postal system
  • History of the Deutsche Post
    • Volume 3: History of the Deutsche Reichspost 1871 to 1945 by Karl Sautter ; Federal Printing Office; Frankfurt; 1951
  • Archive for German Postal History (Ed .: German Society for Postal and Telecommunications History ):
    • Marc Moser: 100 years of the Universal Postal Union; Part 1 in volume 1/1974 and part 2 in volume 1/1975
  • Union Postale
    • 1906: The Universal Postal Congress in Rome;
      • Book 7, p. 101
      • Book 8, p. 117
      • Book 9, p. 137

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Concise dictionary of the postal system; 1st supplement to the 2nd edition; P. 190
  2. ^ Karl Sautter: History of the Deutsche Post - Part 3 - History of the Deutsche Reichspost 1871 to 1945; P. 291