Universal Postal Congress 1957
XIV Universal Postal Congress | |
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Venue | Ottawa , Canada |
Period | August 14th to October 3rd, 1957 |
Participating countries | 96 |
Delegates | 300+ attachés |
proposals | 1200 |
The 14th Universal Postal Congress took place in 1957 in Ottawa, Canada .
At the suggestion of the United States, Congress passed a recommendation that one week in October be celebrated as “Week of the Written Letter”. At the following congress, the beginning was set on Sunday, with which the week begins, in which October 9th (the anniversary of the signing of the “General Postal Union Agreement”) lies.
literature
- History of the Deutsche Post
- 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
- E. Waegner: The fourteenth Universal Postal Congress in Ottawa , Frankfurt / Main: Josef Keller, 1958, no. 6, p. 185
Individual evidence
- ^ Manual dictionary of the postal system , 3rd edition; P. 148