Sent: 12.01.2018
Received: 01.03.2018
Travel time: 47 days
Sender: Riek van der Mast (SCM fb group - surprise cover and maxicards)
A full mailbox is a happy mailbox! World through postcards, postcrossing and covers
Friday, 2 March 2018
0058 Courting Attension - Poland card woman theme
Sent: 23.02.2018
Received: 01.03.2018
Travel time: 6 days
Sender Maciej (www.postcrossing.com) platform.
While the problem of what to do about letters not paying the full correct fee had existed since the creation of regular postal systems, it was greatly heightened by the advent of postage stamps, since customers were now making their own decisions about the right amount to pay, without the assistance of a presumably knowledgeable postal clerk.
While at various times some countries have simply adopted the expedient of returning the letter to the sender, many others have taken the approach of delivering the letter and collecting the fee from the recipient. Initially the process was handled by a clerk writing something like "Due 3 cents" on the cover, but this was subject to abuse by mail carriers, who might write it on themselves and pocket the difference.
The problem of underpaid foreign mail was one of the issues addressed by the 1874 establishment of the Universal Postal Union. The U.P.U. arrived at the decision that mail with insufficient postage should be marked with a "T" and from April 1, 1879 the amount missing would also be indicated in black. Later more countries started to use hand stamps to indicate the amount due. Later the combination of hand-stamps with both the "T" and the amount missing came into use. From October 1, 1907 the rules were changed. The amount due would be charged instead of the amount missing would be indicated. The amount charged was usually double the amount that was missing. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage_due)
Received: 01.03.2018
Travel time: 6 days
Sender Maciej (www.postcrossing.com) platform.
It is very interesting why postal clerk consider insufficient postage and mark it properly, from what I found on Polish Post internet site the cost for an economy sending postcard is 5 zloty , and my card is stamped with 5,05 zloty. Those insufficient postage marks are for sure a subject of a reconciliation...
While at various times some countries have simply adopted the expedient of returning the letter to the sender, many others have taken the approach of delivering the letter and collecting the fee from the recipient. Initially the process was handled by a clerk writing something like "Due 3 cents" on the cover, but this was subject to abuse by mail carriers, who might write it on themselves and pocket the difference.
The problem of underpaid foreign mail was one of the issues addressed by the 1874 establishment of the Universal Postal Union. The U.P.U. arrived at the decision that mail with insufficient postage should be marked with a "T" and from April 1, 1879 the amount missing would also be indicated in black. Later more countries started to use hand stamps to indicate the amount due. Later the combination of hand-stamps with both the "T" and the amount missing came into use. From October 1, 1907 the rules were changed. The amount due would be charged instead of the amount missing would be indicated. The amount charged was usually double the amount that was missing. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage_due)
0057 Maxicard Estonia Fauna (deers)
0057 Maxicard Fauna (deers) - https://pood.omniva.ee/en/maxicards/1867-eesti-fauna-metskits.html
Sent: 23.02.2018
Received: 01.03.2018
Travel time: 6 days
Sender Janne from Estonia (fb friend) - in the fb group PIF cards - Thank you so much, Janne!
PIF is part of a movement - Pay It Forward - and we have a small group where we send smiles forward :)
Our motto is “Pay It Forward” - Meaning: When someone does you a big favour don’t pay it back… pay it forward.
On Friday, April 28, 2018 will be the next world-wide “Pay it Forward Day” (http://payitforwardday.com/) – so that’s where the name of our group comes from.
The Aim of this group is to travel around the world by getting postcards from countries world-wide, to make each other happy by sending beautiful cards and to create friendship by increasing contacts between postcard collectors. We want to be a group of active members only, we want to be a rather small group regarding the number of members but a big one regarding the number of countries our members are from and send from respectively.
We are NO swap group and have special sending modus which makes sure that everybody gets card!
0056 - Train card Hungary
0056 - Train card Hungary - postcrossing stamp and postcrossing special first day postmark
Sent: 27.02.2018
Received: 01.03.2018
Travel time: 3 days
Sender : Christy (Hungary)
About Hungary postcrossing stamp: https://www.postcrossing.com/blog/2018/02/02/a-new-postcrossing-stamp-from-hungary
0055 Alaska Last Frontier Fight Club
Lukcy Posctard Lottery - Facebook Group
This is what I call a really carefully prepared card: Date of sending, name of sender, address, nice stamps, clear postmarks :) Thank you, Kat!
Sent: 15 Feb 2018
Received: 01 March 2018
Travel time: 14 days
Sender Kati (fb)
0054 Romania Card - 155 years Posta Romana
0054 Romania Card - 155 years Posta Romana
sending: 28.02.2018
received:01.03.2018
Travel time: 1 day
Sender Evelina aka veve :)
The post in Romanian provinces is known since the Middle Ages. It was created from the need to spread the sovereigns’ orders up to the limits of the territory they owned. Sovereigns’ couriers used horses, dutifully given to them by the inhabitants of the transited villages and towns.
The first document attesting the existence of postal services in Romanian-speaking lands was "The Charter" issued by Sovereign Mircea the Elder, in 1399, at Giurgiu. By this, localities were required to provide the royal couriers with transportation means, horses and two wheels carts, named remount.
At the beginning, the post was mainly based on the transportation of travellers and official mail of the high seniors and sovereigns.After 1850, in the administrative cities, the urban postal stations were converted into post offices. At that time, there were 30 postal routes, with postal stations, having Craiova as joint centre. In 1852, the mail service for private individuals was organized, under the supervision of the Ministry of Finances.
On July 23, 1862, the 527 Decree was issued regarding the unification of the postal administrations of Moldavia and Wallachia, starting with August 1, 1862. Following the unification, the general directorate management is entrusted to Panait Sevescu, who was had been also managing Muntenia branch since December 1860.
During the years, Poșta Română has developed an active policy meant to strengthen the co-operation and the partnerships at different levels.
In 2004, Romania organised the 23rd UPU Congress, an event that set the policy and strategy for the international postal activity in a time of rapid change of the global postal business.
Poșta Română is a founding member of the Universal Postal Union since its foundation in 1874. In 2004, Poșta Română was the host and organiser of the UPU's 23rd Universal Postal Congress, which was held in Bucharest.
Between 2004 and 2008, Romania held the chairmanship of UPU Council of Administration contributing in this way to the decision-making process regarding the future of the postal services.
Poșta Română is also a founding member of PostEurop (The Association of the European Public Postal Operators) in 1993 and it was actively involved its activities by participating to several European projects, by contributing to the work of various Posteurop Committees and working groups and by facilitating the organization of two PostEurop Plenary Assemblies in Bucharest in 1996 and 2004. (source wiki)
Thursday, 1 March 2018
France La Poste Mailbox
Info from wikipedia.; the original site don't offer also English version.
La Poste is a postal service company in France,
operating in Metropolitan France as well as in the five French overseas
departments and the overseas collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon. Because
of bilateral agreements, La Poste also has the responsibility of mail services
in Monaco through La Poste Monaco and in Andorra alongside the Spanish company
Correos.
The company was created in 1991 following the
split of the French PTT, a government department responsible for mail,
telegraph and telephone services in France. The PTT, founded in 1879, were then
divided between La Poste, which became responsible for postal service, and
France Télécom (nowadays Orange) for the telecommunication services. France
Télécom was immediately privatised but La Poste has remained a public company.
However, because of EU directives requiring member states to introduce competition
in their postal service, the French government allowed private postal service
companies in 2005 and transformed La Poste into a public-owned company limited
by shares in 2010.
Photo made in May 2017 in Paris Banlieue
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