Hotelpost

Under the Hotel Post is defined as a private mailing one or more hotels, which is offered to the guest.

Hotel Post transport services were conducted mainly in the 19th century. In Europe, could not be regularly or not at all postal supervised by the United States Postal numerous villages in the Alps and Carpathians at this time. Therefore talked especially hotels own messengers to bring the letters of their customers to nearest post office or railway station in the valley can. This service is usually performed in the opposite direction. This means that the messenger also transported mail that were addressed to a hotel guest from the nearest post office to the hotel. One of the earliest hotel items found in 1864 in the Swiss Rigi.

This postal service of the Hotel Post was usually performed only on payment of a small fee. In Switzerland, there were frequent for the production and output of Hotel Post brands, the acknowledged this service. The postal charges of the hotels here ranged between 5 and 15 cents per letter. This hotel brands post had to be glued in addition to the normal postage stamps on the mailpiece. As of September 26, 1883, Swiss Post forbade the depiction of significant digits and value name as "Porto", so they can not be mistaken for postage stamps.

Apart from Switzerland, are also found in other countries, such as Austria, similar expenditure. So it was in the 1920s and 1930s, and private messenger services my own stamp issues, but these are not expected to Hotel Post brands.

Hotel Post Hotel Post letters and brands are today preserved only in a few pieces. This makes them a little, but also expensive peripheral area of philately.