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Number of employees. 20,500 (2017) Website. www.post.at. Österreichische Post is the company responsible for postal service in Austria. This company was established in 1999 after its split-off from the mail corporate division of the former state-owned PTT agency Post- und Telegraphenverwaltung (de; PTV). It is listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange.
Empire (1850–1867) and Dual-Monarchy (1867–1918) The Austrian Empire, between 1816 and 1867. The first postage stamp issue of the Empire of Austria was a series of imperforate typographed stamps featuring the coat of arms. At first they were printed on a rough handmade paper, but after 1854 a smooth machine-made paper was used instead.
3xxx: Lower Austria (west of Vienna) 4xxx: Upper Austria. 5xxx: Salzburg and west Upper Austria. 6xxx: Tyrol and Vorarlberg (without East Tyrol) 7xxx: Burgenland. 8xxx: Styria. 9xxx: Carinthia and East Tyrol. 2-digit postcode areas Austria (defined through the first two postcode digits) The second number indicates the regional area in the state ...
Austro-German Postal Union. The Austro-German Postal Union (Deutsch-Österreichischer Postverein, literally "German–Austrian Postal Association") was a union of the postal systems of the Austrian Empire and the pre- Empire German states. The union was established on 1 July 1850. The administrative prerequisites were already provided by the ...
Registered mail. A 1936 registered letter from Canada to Great Britain sent via the RMS Queen Mary. A registered parcel sent from India to the UK with electronic barcode registration. Registered mail is a postal service in many countries which allows the sender proof of mailing via a receipt and, upon request, electronic verification that an ...
S10 (UPU standard) The 13-character identifier for a package. It starts with the service indicator for registered mail ("RR"), followed by an 8-digit serial number (28704377), the check-digit (5) and the two-letter ISO country code for the issuing country, India ("IN") The UPU S10 standard defines a system for assigning 13-character identifiers ...
It expanded to France in 1997, the United Kingdom in 2000, Austria in 2007, Italy in 2009 and Russia in 2010. [citation needed] ... addresses and tracking numbers.
A Belgian railway parcel stamp used in 1881 at Verviers. The international parcel service, which allowed the orderly shipment of mailed packages and parcels from one country to another according to predetermined rates, was established by the Universal Postal Union on 1 October 1881 (Great Britain, India, The Netherlands and Persia, 1 April 1882), following the agreement of 1880 in Paris during ...