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Germany
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Time
Traveler
Postal service in Germany remained insignificant
until the later half of the 19th century, due to the fragmented nature of the
German Kingdom then. The Thurn and Taxis postal service had remained the sole
postal service provider until 1867 when it was absorbed into the postal service
of the North German Confederation. The unification of Germany into an empire in
1871 resulted in the first national German postal service. The German postal
service now operates chiefly through rail, but road and air transport play an
important role in delivery of postcards and urgent mail too.
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| A post office in Germany. |
Cool
Facts!
With increased competition and rapid technological advancements, the
German postal service has developed in many aspects. It now offers
surface-air-lifted services to overseas destinations as well as express mail to
both international and domestic markets. Cash dispensers, interactive video-text
facilities and memory-card based money services are examples of the latest
technological advancements in the German post.
Post
Explorer
Germany prides itself in supposedly being the global pioneer of the
post code system, known as Postleitzahl in German. All German postal codes have
5 digits. Efficiency-wise, the Deutsche Post boasts a squeaky clean record: all
packages within a four hundred kilometer radius of their respective origins can
be delivered in 1 day.
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