Post box
The mail box is the sender for the transfer of letters to a postal company. This conveyed the letters to the receiver, and stores them in the letter box or in a set up for him in the local branch mailbox.
History
It can be assumed that already in ancient riding and messengers item containers, boxes or barrel- like vessels were placed at the collection points to messages that should be conveyed kept until the arrival of the messenger or tab. A much older facility but it should be the knapsack and mail bags.
According to some information was in the 16th century in the churches of Florence wooden boxes, called tamburi, situated where the population was prevented from anonymous sources for the government to warn them against attacks and crimes. Later, these boxes should have been used by the postman to the post office, which was addressed to the clergy, to interject there. These boxes are thus rather the ancestors of modern office boxes.
First pictures of post boxes are found in chronicles from the 17th century. The given out by the engraver and publisher Christoph perverting Ständebuch, under the heading " The postilion and Bott " the Dutchman Caspar hatches a street scene at a small harbor on the background in a house, probably a post office building, can be seen. On the outside wall of the house, a mailbox is attached, in which a passerby just drops one letter, engraved in copper. Hatches has thus ensuring the familiar situation in Holland pose full, where at the end of the 17th century, mail boxes were in use. The engraving has taken "something for everyone" for his book Abraham à State Clara.
1633 will be a " stone mailbox" mentioned, this probably be a precursor that was used in shipping. Sailors have in exposed places, for example in the absorption of water and meals on the south coast of Africa, letters placed under stones in the hope that ships sailing in the opposite direction, würden.Bekannt take these letters into the home, for example, the Dutch at Cape of good Hope have created a message center. At a certain place they use a hollow stone, " in which they put letters so that other passing Dutch from their trip and travel from now where they assumed, and where they traveled and what they encounter, may have news." Some of these stone boxes were used until the 20th century, around 1928, such a mail stone was kept in the Natural History Museum in Cape Town.
Also in 1633 there is a first documented in writing "Post Capsell " on Haynischen gate of the Lower Silesian town of Legnica. The city of Wroclaw entertained from the second half of the 16th century a messenger service to Leipzig. The town, located on Route Legnica did not want to miss the advantages of this messenger service. A decree of 16 March 1633 attaching this Postkästleins was ordered. According messenger regulation of 1596 Breslauer messengers had the letters " without pay " take and leave, so that accounted for a fee collection. Although this mailbox is only a by-product of urban messenger service Wroclaw - Leipzig and thus not part of a regular postal service, but should be the first documented mailbox so anyway.
In Hamburg existed since 1590, "free Urban Messenger Service ". 1641 was the city government set up a number of wooden boxes in the " post-office ". These were sorted by destination and thus the first " direction mailboxes ".
1653 Louis XIV gave the contractor, city and Councillor Jean -Jacques Renouard de Villayer the right to set up mailboxes in the transport of the Paris city post in individual districts. This requires about 15 mailboxes have been set up in the streets. As of August 8, 1653, you could buy at a ticket agency called " billets de port payé " for a sou. The paper strips had to " attached to the letter or wrapped around it or put into it in the same or be placed in any other way, so that the officials see it and remove easily ," as it was called in the provision. The boxes were emptied three times a day. However, this postal service only had about eight years inventory.
On the island of St. Helena in 1658 to several letter containers can be detected, in which consignments could be inserted, which were widely heritage calls from passing sailors. Such collection boxes can be found even today on deserted islands or in remote sea lanes.
A mailbox in the Prussian post is first mentioned in 1766, this was in the post-house in Berlin. With the widespread deployment of mailboxes, which were made of wood, the Prussian Post in 1823 began because of a gutachtlichen report of Oberpostamts in Cologne from 1818. This first mailbox was a of painted with white oil paint wooden box that was opened below. On the front were printed on paper " Verhaltungs Rules" attached.
In England, post boxes were introduced in 1809.
1830 was followed by the post of the Kingdom of Württemberg, shortly after the Bayerische post. Here initially passed security concerns externally mounted on buildings mailboxes and post therefore led throw slots in post offices. Outdoor mailboxes existed in Bavaria from 1845. In the mailboxes only not cleared letters could be inserted, since stamps were still unknown. Only with the introduction of the postage stamp, the Penny Black in the UK on May 6, 1840 or the Black ones on November 1, 1849 in the Kingdom of Bavaria boxes were placed anywhere in greater numbers.
After 1860, the first post boxes made of cast iron were made, came in 1910 then on the first of sheet steel.
Colors and shapes
Post boxes are internationally different colors (see illustration world map in letterbox colors) and shapes.
The boxes of the German Federal Post Office and now Deutsche Post (see: mail box ( Germany ) ), the Austrian Post, Swiss Post, and La Poste in France are decorated in yellow. In other countries, such as Australia, Denmark, England, Italy, the Netherlands and Poland, the mailboxes have a reddish tone. In the United States and Russia are blue. In the Czech Republic orange boxes are used.
Statistics
In a 1877 published statistics, the Seychelles, Curacao and the French territory appear at Gabon with one mailbox. British Guyana by five. Persia with six. St. Pierre and Miquelon together with seven. Hong Kong 12 The Society Islands with 30 New Caledonia with 35 Egypt 36 37 Martinique Reunion Romania 67th with 629, 903 Japan, Netherlands 1481, Sweden 2827, Switzerland 4780, Belgium 5082, British India 5454, Russia 6501, Austria 7827 and Hungary in 2848, Italy 11,000, the United States of America 12,800, the UK and Ireland 25 082, France 45 479, led by Germany with 50 491 mailbox, these are spread over the kingdom postal Area as follows: 41 705 letter boxes and away again 14,290 on places with post offices and 26,209 on places without post offices and 1206 on railway mail car.
Country-specific articles
Post mailbox ( Austria ) Austrian Post AG
Post mailbox ( Switzerland ) Swiss Post
Mail box of Eesti Post in Tallinn / Estonia
Mail box in Budapest / Hungary
In Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Column Mailbox (United Kingdom)
Mail box in Russia
Post mailbox People's Republic of China