Universal Postal Congress 1964

XV. Universal Postal Congress
Venue	Hofburg , Vienna , Austria
Period	May 29 to July 10, 1964
Doyen	Benno Schaginger
Participating countries	122
Delegates	500 + 100 attachés

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The 15th Universal Postal Congress was originally supposed to take place in Rio de Janeiro in 1962 , but that never happened. Even India , which has been requested, the Universal Postal Congress perform refrained. As a result, Vienna was found as a congress location for the second time after 1891. General Director for the Post and Telegraph Administration of Austria, Dr. Benno Schaginger , was President of the XV. Universal Postal Congress 1964 in Vienna, which met in the Hofburg .

At the congress, the “week of the written letter” was set to begin on Sunday, which is the beginning of the week that is October 9th .

literature

• History of the Deutsche Post
  • Volume 4: 1945 to 1978 by Steinmetz and Elias ; Ed .: Federal Ministry for Post and Telecommunications, Bonn, 1979
• 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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Marc Moser: 100 Years of the Universal Postal Union; Part 2; P. 61
2. ↑ XV. Universal Postal Congress in the Vienna Hofburg
3. ^ Manual dictionary of the postal system , 3rd edition; P. 148