1969 Universal Postal Congress

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XVI. Universal Postal Congress
Venue Prince Hotel, Tokyo , Japan
Period October 1 to November 16, 1969
Duration about 6 weeks days
Member countries 142
Participating countries 132
Delegates 550+ attachés
proposals 1100

The 16th Universal Postal Congress ( Japanese 第 16 回 万 国 郵 便 大 会議 , Dai-16-kai bankoku yūbin taikaigi ) took place from October 1 to November 14, 1969 in the Japanese capital Tokyo . For the first time after the Second World War , Germany again chaired a commission (aviation).

decisions

Reply cards are no longer permitted in international mail since July 1, 1971.

Universal Postal Day (or "Universal Postal Union Day") was designated as a memorial day at Congress. Since then, it has been celebrated every year on October 9th, the day the Universal Postal Union was founded in 1874 in the Swiss capital of Bern.

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
  • Paul Klossek: Results of the XVI. Universal Postal Congress in Tokyo (October 1 to November 14, 1969) ; 1970, no. 3, p. 33

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 国際 連 合 専 門 機関 . Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Japan) , accessed August 18, 2013 (Japanese).
  2. ^ History of the Deutsche Post - Volume 4; P. 430
  3. ↑ Reply postcard . In: Ullrich Häger: Großes Lexikon der Philatelie , Volume 1, Bertelsmann Lexikon-Verlag 1978, page 78 f.
  4. ↑ Calendarlexikon.de