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.
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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