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Swiss Post (German: Die Schweizerische Post [diː ˈʃvaɪtsəʁɪʃə pɔst]; French: La Poste suisse [la pɔstə sɥis]; Italian: La Posta Svizzera [la ˈpɔsta ˈzvittsera]; Romansh: La Posta Svizra) is the national postal service of Switzerland.
The first Swiss stamps were those of the Cantons (States) of Zürich, Geneva, and Basel. These early Swiss stamps have another distinction. They were also the 3rd (1843), 4th (1843), and 5th (1845) adhesive postage stamp issuing nations of the World. Unfortunately, the Cantonal postage stamp issues are tremendously rare today. [4]
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.
In the course of the international trend towards liberalisation of the telecommunications market, it was transformed into two public service companies on January 1, 1998, Swiss Post and Swisscom. While Swiss Post remained a government agency with a partial service monopoly (it was converted into a statutory Aktiengesellschaft in 2013), Swisscom ...
The local mail and rayon stamps of 1850 and 1852 constituted the first series of postage stamps issued by the Swiss Post.In philately, they are among the most sought-after Swiss stamps, with a 5 rappen Rayon I stamp selling for the record price of CHF 348,000 (USD 293,000) at auction in 2008.
It was founded in 1907 as the corporate museum of Swiss Post (later called PTT), the national postal service of Switzerland. [6] The restructuring of the museum into a foundation of Swiss Post and Swisscom led to a broadening of the overall theme and a new name, the Museum of Communication. [7] The latest incarnation of the museum, which opened ...
1842 1 February City Despatch Post New York local post. 1843 1 March - Zürich issue their first stamps: Zürich 4 and 6. 1843 1 August - Bull's Eyes, first stamps of Brazil; 1843 30 September - Geneva issue their first stamps: Double Geneva. 1845 - Creation of the New York Postmaster's Provisional; 1845 - The US star routes begin operation.
The Swiss PostAuto service evolved as a motorized successor to the stagecoaches that previously carried passengers and mail in Switzerland, with the Swiss postal service providing postbus services carrying both passengers and mail. Although this combination had been self-evident in the past, the needs of each diverged towards the end of the ...