A paper read before the Leeds Philatelic Society by E. ^ "The Universal Postal Union: Its History and Progress.^ The 1880 UPU Parcel Post Convention and Swedish Foreign Parcel Mail, 1881 - 1921 by Sören Andersson in The Posthorn, Scandinavian Collectors Club, May 2002.
#Post a parcel code#
A barcode is a unique ID number or code assigned to parcel when send it to the recipient. Nowadays parcels often bear a barcode so they can be tracked at all the stages up to their reception by the final recipient. The size can range from a standard mail package to a box large enough to protect what is sent, up to a size that can be transported in a wheelbarrow. Services by road continued to thrive even during the railway age, including by bus, tram and trolley car. Circa mid twentieth century.īefore the development of the railway network, road transport was the principal means of parcel transport. Road transport private parcel service stamps from Great Britain. Effective January 17, 2016, the USPS renamed the service again, from "Standard Post" to "USPS Retail Ground", a name intended to resemble those of competing services UPS Ground and FedEx Ground.Ĭommercial Parcel Post service is now under the "Parcel Select" name. Effective January 27, 2013, the USPS renamed its parcel post service from 'Parcel Post' to 'Standard Post'. USPS Domestic Parcel Post was an affordable method of sending large parcels of up to seventy pounds and a maximum combined length and girth of one hundred and thirty inches via ground transportation across the U.S. For heavier parcels and/or printed matter, Priority Mail International, Priority Mail International Flat-Rate, Express Mail International, Airmail M-Bags, and Global Express Guaranteed service is available to foreign countries allowing these types of mail delivery. International Parcel Post service was replaced by First-class Mail International service for parcels up to four pounds. Post Office, officially ended International Parcel Post service in May 2007 after some 120 years of existence. The United States, as a signatory, started foreign parcel services in 1887 but did not institute domestic services until 1913. History 1881: Universal Postal Union agreement In the first year after the establishment of the domestic parcel post in Germany (1874), 38,862,654 parcels were carried, rising to 62,946,100 by 1881. The practice of forwarding parcels with the mail, however, had been in use in Austria since the seventeenth century and in some German states is said to date to the fifteenth century. The idea of a parcel post may be credited to Germany, where the growth of railways had brought uniform postal rates throughout Germany and Austria in 1857. Today, many parcels also travel by road and international shipments may travel by sea or airmail.ĭevelopment of domestic parcel posts The development of the parcel post is closely connected with the development of the railway network which enabled parcels to be carried in bulk, to a regular schedule and at economic prices. Parcel post is a postal service for mail that is too heavy for normal letter post.
#Post a parcel tv#
TV set with 46 inches packed in a cardbox package, delivered via a delivery van
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