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- In the late 15th century, Emperor Maximilian I created the first mounted courier service that linked Brussels with France, Italy (via Innsbruck) and Vienna (via Speyer and Augsburg). This service also accepted private mail. This new regular postal service soon proved to be a suc-cess.
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History. The first standardised postal service was set up between Innsbruck and Mechelen, Belgium in 1490. [1] By 1563 an extensive system of mail routes existed connecting Vienna with cities in Belgium, France, Italy, Spain and Portugal.
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.
INTRODUCTION. The story of the Austrian Posts, in the period between the time when the Crown assumed the postal administration and the issue of adhesive prepaid postage stamps, is less confusing if each aspect is dealt with separately instead of in a strictly chronological order.
The first items of postal stationery to be issued by Austria were envelopes in 1861, followed by postal cards in 1869 and then newspaper wrappers in 1872. Lettercards were first issued in 1886 and aerogrammes were first issued in 1952.
Jul 2, 2015 · An official Austrian postal decree dated Aug. 12, 1850, announced that a stamp would be produced for the exclusive use of publishers for franking newspapers mailed to subscribers. The stamp would pay the discounted inland postage rate (within Austria and also in Lombardy-Venetia, created in 1815 and part of the Austrian Empire until 1866) for ...
May 4, 2021 · The stamps of the first issue were in circulation between June 1, 1850, and Dec. 31, 1858. That eight-year period may be conveniently split into two halves according to the type of paper on which the stamps were printed. Until the last few months of 1854, the paper was handmade, and the sheets were watermarked.
