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The number of post offices increased from 1,502 in 1849 to over 4,000 in 1914. [57] The volumes of mail delivered by the Swiss Postal Services increased significantly and between 1887 and 1915 so-called "Postal Palaces" were built in several larger cities. [58] The first one was in Basel, then others followed in Zürich, Bern, Geneva and Olten ...
The service became quickly popular: for UPS the number of packages tracked on the web increased from 600 a day in 1995 [9] to 3.3 million a day in 1999. [10] On-line package tracking became available for all major carrier companies, and was improved by the emergence of websites that offered consolidated tracking for different mail carriers. [11]
PTT (German: Post, Telefon und Telegraph, French: Postes, téléphones et télégraphes, Italian: Poste, telefoni e telegrafi) was the Swiss Postal Telegraph and Telephone agency, formed in 1928. In the course of the international trend towards liberalisation of the telecommunications market, it was transformed into two public service companies ...
The Swiss telephone numbering plan implements the ITU-T recommendation E.164 and is designated E.164/2002, based on its last major revision in 2002. It is a closed numbering plan, [1] which means that all telephone numbers, including the area code, have a fixed number of digits. Swiss area codes are officially termed national destination codes (NDC
Switzerland is divided into nine postal districts, numbered from west to east. Each district is subdivided into postal areas. Each area contains a maximum of one hundred units. The postal codes are made up as follows: 3436 Zollbrück 3 = district (Bern) 34 = area (Burgdorf) 343 = route (Burgdorf - Langnau) 3436 = post office number (Zollbrück)
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A a post office was first established in Chicago on March 8, 1831, with Johnathan N. Baily, a fur trader, being appointed Chicago's first postmaster. [1] [2] Chicago was long the hub of the Railway Mail Service of the United States.
On December 31, 1997 the Swiss Post and the Swisscom Ltd. transferred the former corporate archive as well as the library of the PTT to the specially founded Swiss Foundation for the History of the Post and Telecommunications. The two founders came to an agreement that the two components of the holdings were to be stored at the same location.