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    PRODUCT INFORMATION R.P.E. SHQIPERISE ALBANIA FULL PELICANS NOT HINGED ORIGINAL GUM SETS COLLECTING STAMPS OF ALBANIA AFTER 1950+ YEAR IS NOT ONLY AN ACQUAINTANCE WITH HISTORY, BUT ALSO A PROFITABLE INVESTMENT. Postal history in Albania has been traced back to the time of its entry into the Ottoman Empire. At the same time, from 1870 to 1913, postage stamps of the Ottoman Empire were in circulation on Albanian territory. Issues of postage stamps First stamps After independence, Albania issued the first postage stamps in 1913. Subsequent issues The inscriptions on the postage stamps of Albania, denoting the name of the state in Albanian: Shqiperia, Shqiperise, Shqiptare. Overprints The first overprint on Albanian postage stamps was made on November 28, 1913. The hand stamp overprinted the state symbols - the Albanian eagle after the declaration of independence from the Ottoman Empire and the new denomination of 10 Turkish par. It was in circulation until December 31, 1913. There are varieties in color. The last overprint was made in January 2006 to change the denomination of 40 Albanian leks (lek) due to the need for stamps of this denomination. Over the entire period, 319 cataloged overprints were produced, of which 14 were postal and charitable overprints to raise funds for the Red Cross Fund, 52 - in connection with a change in the political system in Albania, 50 - changes in the face value of a postage stamp, 62 - commemorative, 21 - on changing the type of stamp, for use as an additional charge, 18 - control overprints to prevent speculation with postage stamps. Italian post office in Albania (1902-1923) On the territory of Albania, which was part of the Ottoman Empire until 1912, Italian post offices functioned, which used postage stamps intended for all such post offices operating in the Ottoman Empire. In addition to the indicated postage stamps, the Italian postal department issued special stamps for Albania. So, in 1902-1908, Italian postage stamps were in circulation with an overprint of the text Italian. "Albania" ("Albania") and a new denomination, intended for post offices in the cities of Scutari (Shkoder), Durazzo (Durres) and Valona (Vlore). In 1909-1916, separate stamps were issued for the three indicated post offices. These were Italian postage stamps overprinted with a new denomination in Turkish currency and the name of the city, namely: ital. "Scutari di Albania" ("Scutari in Albania"), "Durazzo" ("Durazzo") and "Valona" ("Valona"). A total of 10 postage stamps were issued for Shkodra, 9 for Durres and 10 for Vlora. In October 1911, the Italian post offices in Albania were closed, but they began to work again a year later, in October 1912, finally ceasing to function in 1923. WORLD POSTAGE INFORMATION The history of the post is a historical study of the development of the postal service. The need to receive news from other localities and countries dates back to ancient times and was initially satisfied by means of messengers who brought messages, both oral and written or dressed in symbolic form. With the development of human civilization, there was a change and development of methods, means and forms of postal communication. Royal Mail Coach (Great Britain, ca. 1820) African hollow tom-toms Prehistoric people used the voice to convey important information, which contributed to the emergence of articulate speech. However, the oral transmission of the news was imperfect, since the human voice is heard only at close range. To amplify the transmitted sound, hollow tree trunks and later drums began to be used thousands of years ago (about 6 thousand years BC). With the help of conditional shock signals, news was transmitted from one settlement to another. In addition, people used fire and smoke to convey messages. Tom-tom drums are still used by African tribes to communicate over long distances, and the smoke from bonfires was used for the same purposes by the Indians of Canada as far back as the 20th century. N. K. Roerich (1874-1947). Messenger Antiquity Messengers became the next type of communication in the history of mankind - at first on foot, later on horseback. In the ancient states of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Persia, China, the Roman Empire, there was a well-established state postal service: written messages were sent with foot and horse messengers on the principle of a relay. The Ancient East The history of mail is closely related to the history of writing. With the birth of the latter, information began to be transmitted in writing, which marked the beginning of postal communication. At first, this relationship was episodic. With the emergence of slave-owning states in the Ancient East, whose rulers needed constant information about the situation in their own country and in the territories subject to them, postal communications began to acquire an orderly character. Ancient Egyptian drawing depicting postal activity The first institutions of an ordered message service arose quite early in ancient times. For the first time, a postal message appeared about 5000 years ago in Mesopotamia to transmit information imprinted in the form of a clay letter.  No less ancient is the postal service in Egypt. Initially, such services were used mainly for military purposes and were not intended for communication between civilians. Such were the messaging services in ancient Egypt, Assyria, Babylon and Persia. They were especially developed in Egypt and can be considered the forerunners of modern mail. During the IV dynasty of the pharaohs (2900-2700 BC), there was a service of special foot (walkers), as well as horse messengers, providing communication via military roads with Libya, Ethiopia and Arabia. Ancient Egyptian mail was based primarily on the use of numerous messengers on foot, thanks to which the pharaohs could easily communicate with remote provinces. In Beni Hassan, on the wall painting of one of the cave-tombs dating back to the era of the Middle Kingdom, a messenger is depicted conveying to an official a message about the invasion of an enemy tribe[3]. It is known about professional messengers that existed in Egypt in the era of the XII dynasty (1985-1785 BC), who delivered royal orders all the way to Asia. The messengers had to cover long distances as quickly as possible. Carrier pigeons were also used to transport letters. Carrier pigeons with attached messages. An idea of ​​the postal service in ancient Egypt can be obtained from a papyrus document dated to about 255 BC. e. and containing accounts for the delivery of mail by one messenger. A similar highly developed postal system soon spread to other countries. The Assyrian legend tells of the messengers who carried the orders of Semiramis to all the edges of her kingdom. The postal business in the Persian monarchy - in the form of a clear system of postal communication, known as the "angareyon" - was introduced in the 6th century BC. e., during the time of King Cyrus II (550-529 BC). The transmission of messages was carried out mainly through horse messengers (hangars). However, there are indications that such a postal system existedin Persia much earlier. From the descriptions of Herodotus and Xenophon it is known that under Cyrus II, postal stations were installed on the most important roads, spaced at a uniform distance from each other, which was approximately the daily run of a horse. These stations served as rest couriers. Ancient Greece In Greece, the postal system was quite well established in the form of land and sea mail, but it could not develop significantly due to the many warring city-states. Governments, as a rule, had at their disposal messengers on foot to convey messages. They were called hemerodromes (Greek ημερόδρομος). The runners covered in an hour a distance of 55 stadia (about 10 km) and in one flight - 400-500 stadia. The most famous of these couriers was Pheidippides, who, according to Plutarch, in 490 B.C. e. brought to Athens the news of the victory at the Battle of Marathon and died of exhaustion. This run was the first marathon in history. Pheidippides transmitted only a verbal message. Riding messengers were sent already in antiquity to convey especially hasty messages. As Diodorus Siculus writes, one of the commanders of Alexander the Great kept messengers at his headquarters - camel riders. Ancient Rome Roman roads and Cursus publicus In the Roman Republic, the organization of the postal business was probably borrowed from the Persians. At first, only wealthy patricians, who owned numerous slaves, had their own messengers. For government and private purposes, there were messengers (cursores, statores, later viatores and tabellarii, from tabella - a tablet for writing), as well as private entrepreneurs who rented wagons and pack animals (cisiarii and jumentarii); their colleges united into one corporation. Gaius Julius Caesar laid the foundation for the creation of the state post itself, which arose and received significant development under the emperor Augustus. In those days, the post office was called cursus publicus (“cursus publicus” - state post), was subordinated directly to the emperor and was not allowed for private messages. Thanks to a single postal network, there was a connection between the individual parts of the Roman Empire. It was a huge, extensive postal system, which worked according to clear regulations. Postal transportation was carried out on land with the help of horses, by sea - on ships. In larger centers, mail stations (mansiones, later stationes) were established, which served for the rest and overnight stay of traveling horsemen and drivers and usually stood one from the other for a day's journey. Riding and pack animals and, in case of need, wagons stood ready here. Between each two mansiones (at a distance of 7-14 km) 6-8 smaller stations (mutationes) were arranged for changing horses. In those days, they could say: "Statio posita in ...", which meant "a station located in such and such a place." From the Latin word posita, most likely, the word post came - "mail" . Hurry packages were sent by horse couriers (veredarii), travelers were transported in light wagons (rheda), various kinds of luggage - in carts (clabularia). The use of state mail was allowed only for state purposes and certain officials. In urgent cases, entire military units were transported by means of cursus publicus. As an exception and on the basis of special permits (diplomata, evectiones, tractoriae), other persons, traveling officials, especially veterans, and later clergymen could use the state mail, which gave rise to various abuses. The main administration of the state post was concentrated in the hands of one of the highest state officials: at first the prefect of the praetorium, and from the time of Constantine, the master of offices. The management of the post in the provinces belonged to the governors, under whom special prefects (prefecti vehiculorum), later - procuratores cursus publici, were in charge of the technical part of the post. The supply of horses, other means of transportation and riders was a natural duty of the surrounding population and the inhabitants of the conquered countries, on whom the maintenance of the mail lay an extremely heavy burden. Although the activity of the Roman state post was limited to government needs, it was of great importance. Thanks to the excellent road network, the security and order of communications, and the extensive correspondence of civil and military authorities, an unusually busy traffic developed at the state post offices. Distances from Britain to the Balkans, the Caucasus, present-day Turkey, Syria, Palestine, and Jordan, and from the mouth of the Rhine to the Libyan Desert and Alexandria, could be covered relatively quickly. If Caesar, using variable private horses, could make 100 miles a day, then Tiberius, with the help of cursus publicus, traveled a distance twice that in a day. News from the most important provinces was received daily in Rome. Stations along busier roads containedb 20-40 draft horses and mules. This organization lasted until the fall of the Western Roman Empire, and with its fall the cursus publicus also disappeared. In the Eastern Roman Empire, the state post office existed until about 520. For private mail, they usually used the services of traveling friends, which led to a long delivery time. So, there is a known case when a certain Augustin received a letter nine years later. If the distance to the addressee was not very large, the Roman sent his slave, who traveled on foot up to 75 km per day. Other highly developed cultures In China, the postal service of foot and horse messengers arose quite early; it was founded during the Zhou dynasty (1123-249 BC). In those days, postal communication was maintained with the help of 80 messengers and eight main couriers, for whom quarters for meals were arranged at a distance of 5 km and, at a greater distance, accommodation points. This postal system was greatly expanded during the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC) and especially during the Han Dynasty (206 BC-220). During the heyday of the Mayan culture, there was also a developed service of messengers, but very little is known about it. Middle Ages Development in Europe Early Middle Ages Post horn Exhibit of the Rheinhessen Postal Museum With the fall of the Western Roman Empire, there was hardly any functioning transmission system in Europe. Only Clovis (King of France from 482 to 511) tried - without much success - to recreate the postal service from the remains of the Roman state mail. By the time of Charlemagne (768-814) messages were delivered with great difficulty. Charlemagne and his successors made no serious attempt to restore the Roman state post. The institution of messengers, which existed under the Carolingians, was adjacent to the popular division into stamps and, with the rapid disintegration of the monarchy, was not widely developed. The feudal princes carried out the transfer of letters and things through messengers and drivers provided by their subjects. Monastic and university mail In feudal medieval Europe of the 11th-15th centuries, with the fragmentation of state power, the forwarding of news was carried out mainly by individual spiritual and secular corporations. At that time, the Church needed most of all the exchange of thoughts, both because its organization rested on the beginning of centralization, and because for a long time it was the only bearer of the intellectual life of peoples. The archives of church institutions and the regests of the Roman curia testify that even at the very beginning of the Middle Ages there was a lively exchange of messages between the head of the Catholic hierarchy and its members; but there is no indication of the existence of a special ecclesiastical institution of messengers or couriers. Only between numerous branches of spiritual orders was proper communication maintained through the medium of wandering monks, who played the role of couriers and took reports with them. The monasteries thus had their own system of messages - the monastic post. Monastic couriers kept in touch between individual monasteries and the head of the church in Rome, between monastic orders and their brotherhoods. In the lands of the German order, a special administration arose for this purpose and stations were established for changing horses. At universities, where students flocked from various countries, corporations of professional messengers were also formed, enjoying various privileges. In the XII-XIII centuries, the messengers of the universities in Bologna, Salerno, Naples, Montpellier, Toulouse were famous, and later - the messengers of the Sorbonne University in Paris. University mail messengers kept students in touch with their families; some of the university post offices delivered messages to private individuals for a fee. Merchants' and butchers' mail The further development of society, primarily trade and crafts, as well as science and culture, contributed to an increase in interest in the transmission of messages and led to the emergence of numerous and diverse messenger services and city posts serving merchants and artisans. Gradually, the right to use these mails began to be granted to other segments of the population. Merchant mail was established at large trading houses, which contained their own couriers. Soon, individual merchants began to borrow this idea and united so that the collected mail could be transported to its destination. The beginning of merchant mail can be found in the Republic of Venice. At the same time, there was still no unified state mail. Somewhat later, the so-called "butcher's post" arose. The guild of butchers, who made extensive travels for their purchases, took over, in agreement with the cities and merchant guilds, the transportation of letters and parcels. In some cities of southern Germany, this was a duty for the butcher's guild, in return for which it was exempted from communal duties. Thus, the butchers' post was formed, which existed until the end of the 17th century and in some places acquired the significance of a state institution (in Württemberg). Messenger with a letter in the 15th century (West Berlin stamp, 1989) City and royal mail With the development of city liberties, one of the most important means of communication in the Middle Ages was the institution of city messengers, which existed almost everywhere since the 14th century, but was especially developed in large shopping centers in Germany and Italy. From the numerous regulations that have come down to us for city messengers in Cologne, Mainz, Nordhausen (XIV century), Strasbourg (1443), Augsburg (1552), Breslau (1573), etc., it is clear that they were under the jurisdiction of the city council, which under sworn to obey. They did not receive a salary either from the community, or from individual corporations or merchant guilds. Coming out of the city on certain days, they delivered on horseback or on foot at the appointed time the correspondence of the city government, as well as letters and parcels from the townspeople, from whom they charged a fee. Postal map of Europe in 1563 The institute of urban messengers received a strong and widespread development thanks to the unions of cities on the Rhine and in Lower Germany. The messengers of the Rhenish city union maintained the correct messages from Cologne and Mainz via Frankfurt to Nuremberg. The messengers of the Hanseatic cities were famous for their accuracy in meeting deadlines, maintaining communications between Hamburg, Bremen, Amsterdam and Antwerp, as well as eastward through Stettin, Danzig and Königsberg up to Riga. In southern Germany, the first place was occupied by the messengers of Augsburg. In addition to lines to Nuremberg (three times a week), Lindau and Regensburg, they maintained communications with Italy; they arrived in Venice via the Brenner in eight days. The modern centralized post was born with the rise of state power. In France, Louis XI, by an edict on June 19, 1464, established royal couriers (French maîtres coureurs royaux). A network of stations for changing horses was spread over all his possessions; at the head of the whole organization was the grand maître. This mail was intended solely for the needs of the government; royal couriers, under pain of death, were forbidden to carry out orders for private individuals. Charles VIII's patent of 27 January 1487 names the royal couriers chevaucheurs en postes. Soon after, not only in France, but also in Germany and Italy, the name of the post came to mean the whole set of institutions that were established by the state or under the control of the state for the transmission of both government and private correspondence and for the transport of passengers. Thurn and Taxis Post FRG stamp for the 500th anniversary of the von Taxis post (1990) Main article: Thurn y Taxis Post The first experience of the organization of mail - in the real sense of the word and on a broad international basis - was made by members of the Tasso family (later Tassis or Taxis; in 1650 the prefix Thurn was added to the surname) from Bergamo, who took over the support of communications between the Habsburg possessions. The Thurn and Taxis post existed from the second half of the 15th century until 1867 and made a huge contribution to the development of postal communications in Europe. Development outside Europe After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, its territory from Spain to Persia was dominated by the Arabs. In the 7th century, a well-organized regular postal service arose in the Muslim caliphate, the services of which could also be used by private individuals on a limited basis. The postal communications that existed at that time became even more developed. Postal couriers had special insignia so that they could be recognized from afar. They were given special plates, original certificates, which were hung around the neck and over the shoulder with the help of yellow ribbons. There is data on the mail of the Incas in Peru and the Aztecs in Mexico. Here, until the beginning of the 16th century, there were postal messengers who, in addition to state messages, delivered fresh fish, fruits and other products to the king's table. The Aztec messengers transmitted almost all messages orally. They weaved red ribbons into their hair or brandished a dagger at joyful news (for example, about victory); bad news was conveyed to the king on his knees. Postage in Russia Postal history of Russia Postage stamp of the USSR (1958) People in Rus' were well aware of the events that took place thousands of kilometers away, but, however, there is no direct evidence describing a regular postal service in the 10th-14th centuries. Probably, the first message about the postal system in Rus' dates back to the beginning of the 16th century and belongs to Sigismund Herberstein:     The sovereign has riders in all parts of his state, in different places and with the appropriate number of horses, so that when a royal messenger is sent somewhere, he will have a horse ready without delay. In this case, the messenger is given the right to choose the horse he wants. Another foreigner (Stanislav Nemoevsky) during the reign of Ivan IV the Terrible noted:     Messengers are obliged, from hour to hour, to do 20 miles a day (about 100 km), and they accomplish such an impossible task in a short time, although for this they have no gratitude, but - toara: whip and prison. According to the same author, at the beginning of the 17th century, pits (post stations) were located at a distance of 6 to 20 miles (30-100 km) from each other. At the same time, travelers of different classes, fulfilling the will of the Grand Duke, could change a different number of horses in the pits: “a simple person could take only one horse; the son of a boyar son - three; and to whom on the road from the Grand Duke they will write with “vich”, for example - Boris Vasilyevich, that is six. A son with a patronymic, that is, some big duma - 15, duma prince - 30 ". At the beginning of the 17th century, the Grand Duke (Tsar Vasily Shuisky) received news every eight days about what was happening on the border and in other parts of the country. From the message of Patrick Gordon at the end of the 17th century, mail from Moscow, for example, was sent to Riga every two weeks; the general received in Moscow a letter sent from Smolensk 10 days after the date of sending [source not specified 4379 days], and while in London, a letter from his wife, who traveled from Russia in 43 days; a letter from my father (from Scotland) went to London for 33 days. Horse messenger (Germany, XVII century) In the 16th-17th centuries, centralized royal mail arose in France, Sweden, England and other countries. The idea of ​​a postal regalia, that is, the exclusive right of the government to maintain postal institutions within the state territory, was first put forward at the end of the 16th century, and in the 17th century it began to be put into practice. The first of the German sovereigns to establish a government post and recognize the nature of a monopoly behind it was the great Elector Friedrich Wilhelm (1646). His example was followed by other significant imperial ranks. At the same time, the content of the mail began to be seen not only as a right, but also as an obligation of governments. With the development of industrial relations and the emergence of capitalism, it became necessary to organize regular and fast postal communications both within countries and between countries. Already at the beginning of the 18th century, there were statesmen (for example, Friedrich Wilhelm I in Prussia) who abandoned fiscal views on the post and saw its task in reducing the cost of postal rates and making postal messages as accessible to the population as possible. Unlike France, where the forwarding of letters (poste aux lettres) was declared a state monopoly, but along with government mail there were private enterprises for the transport of passengers (messageries), in the larger German states, the activities of government mail included both the forwarding of letters and goods, and transportation of passengers. Trara-ra-ra! Hurry, hurry The carriage is flying through the fields! Dust swirls from all sides, The cheerful postman trumpets! The horn sparkles like fire - Blow louder, postman. Trara-ra-ra! Hurry, hurry The carriage is flying through the fields! Take your time! I will give everything - Carry letters home And letters and packages Parcels and newspapers. German folk song (translated by B. Kissin) In those days, the arrival of a mail coach in a small town was a whole event. The postman announced his approach by loudly blowing the mail horn. News was delivered at a speed of 70 km per day - as much as a postal stagecoach passed. The government post office of Saxony, Braunschweig-Hanover, Hesse, and especially Brandenburg-Prussia was famous for its expedient organization. From 1655 on the main Prussian line Kleve-Memel, mail departed twice a week; from Koenigsberg to Berlin she arrived in 4 days, from Koenigsberg to Kleve - in 10 days. It was unusual speed for that time. In addition to branches to Hamburg, Stettin, Leipzig and Breslau, postal communications were maintained in the west with Holland, in the east with Warsaw and the Swedish post in Riga. In the matter of transporting passengers, Prussia, however, was already surpassed by countries with more comfortable roads at the end of the 18th century. All the more struck contemporaries the success achieved by Prussia in 1821, when the so-called him were established. Nagler'sche Schuellposten, with travel-friendly crews. Postal office. Hood. Edward Villiers Rippinghill (1829) In the 19th century, a radical revolution in the postal business was caused by the spread of railways and shipping companies. The appearance at the beginning of the 19th century of a steam locomotive and a steamboat, and at the beginning of the 20th century of an airplane, significantly increased the speed of forwarding mail. The postal service became nationwide and began to serve the entire population. Through the combination of railway and steamship lines, the possibility of establishing correct postal communications between the most remote countries has opened up. The first experience in this direction was made in 1835 by Lieutenant Waghorn, who was in the English service, who organized the Anglo-Indian mail, which was transported by steamers from Marseille to Alexandria, from there, first along the Mahmoudie canal, and subsequently by rail to Suez, then again delivered by steamers to Bombay and Calcutta. At the beginning of the 20th century, this mail was delivered through the Mont Cenis tunnel toBrindisi, from where it was directly transported by mail steamers through the Suez Canal to India and the countries of the Far East. In 1820, Brewer, a paper merchant in Brighton, invented the envelope. An important milestone in the history of the postal service was the issuance of a postage stamp in 1840 in Great Britain. Later, registered envelopes began to be used in England and its colonies. Stamp wrappers appeared in 1857 in the United States of America, in 1864 - in New South Wallis, in 1868 - in the North German Union; in total, such parcels were introduced later in 66 countries. Forms for closed letters were introduced in 55 countries, initially in 1879 in Paris; in Argentina and France there are forms with a paid answer. Forms for postal orders appeared in Braunschweig in 1865 and were then introduced in 14 countries; only three countries had stamped envelopes for postal orders. One of the founders of the Universal Postal Union, Heinrich von Stefan The idea of ​​​​inventing an open letter (post-card, or postcard) belongs to the former German Postmaster General Heinrich von Stefan. At the 5th conference of the German Postal Union in Karlsruhe in 1865, Stefan pointed out in a memorandum the inconveniences of the existing form of writing, which did not have simplicity and brevity and was associated with a loss of time when choosing paper, folding it, putting it in an envelope, sealing it, stamp sticker, etc. In addition, in ordinary writing it was not customary to confine oneself to short phrases, and under such conditions speed of writing was not achieved. The initiative to introduce an open letter belongs to Austria, where the first postcards appeared in 1869. Paid reply open letters appeared in 1872 in the German Empire. Subsequently, open letters were introduced in 171 countries, with a paid response in 140. Woman dropping a letter in a mailbox (USA, 1909) By coordinating the arrival of the Atlantic steamships with the trains of the Pacific Railroad in North America, and these latter with the steamship lines outgoing from Vancouver and San Francisco, it became possible to send a letter from Europe to Japan in 30 to 35 days. Being immediately sent from Japan further (to India), such a letter could make a round-the-world trip in 85 days. With the completion of the Great Siberian Railway at the beginning of the 20th century, the journey from Europe to Japan was reduced by six days, and a letter could circumnavigate the globe in less than 80 days. As the railway network expanded and branched out, and the number of daily trains increased, so did the number of mails that arrived and departed daily in the area. To this were added the improvements introduced into the organization of the postal business itself by the arrangement, for example, of a rural post office, the establishment of a cheap and uniform postal rate, and the introduction of a number of new postal operations. More than one case is known in the history of postal services, when letters were delivered over long distances in a very short time, impossible even with modern means of sorting and transporting mail. So, a letter sent on August 6, 1849 from London was delivered to Switzerland, to Neuchâtel on the second day. A letter sent in 1905 from Oxford reached Frankfurt am Main in three days, although even now such a journey can take four or five days. Monument to the Universal Postal Union[de] in Bern (erected in 1909) With the invention of the telegraph (1832), telephone (1876) and radio (1895), the postal service did not lose its important role as a means of communication for millions of people. In the telegraph, the post office found powerful assistance and completion, as a result of which almost all states, following the example of Germany, combined the postal business with the telegraph business, to the great benefit of both departments. Finally, international postal relations received a solid foundation and guarantee in the organization of the Universal Postal Union, which embraced all cultural countries. One of the founders of the Universal Postal Union was Heinrich von Stefan, who made a significant contribution to the development of German and international mail in the 19th century. In 1874, at the First Universal Postal Congress, 22 countries, including Russia, signed the Universal Uniform Postal Treaty and formed the Universal Postal Union (since 1878 - the Universal Postal Union). In 1878, the Universal Postal Convention was concluded, regulating the exchange of correspondence, which contains written messages. For the current stage in the development of mail, see the article Mail. Postal history as a section of philately Main article: Philately Within the framework of philatelic studies, there is a special section of postal history, which is based on the activities of the postal department, which issues postage stamps and controls the means of collecting, sorting and delivering mail. The subject of postal history from the point of view of philately includes the study of postal rates, mail transportation routes, methods and methods of processing postal correspondence. Particular attention is paid to periods of disruption of the mail or transitional periods, such assuch as wars and military occupation, as well as the delivery of mail to remote areas. The term “postal history” also refers to collections of postal envelopes and other materials illustrating episodes from postal history. Thus, the history of postal past and present grew out of philately. As the discipline developed, philatelic researchers found that knowing why the Post Office issued particular stamps, where they were used, and how they were used made it easier to understand and identify postage stamps. For example, it is possible to prove that a stamp that supposedly went through the post office before another stamp of this type is in fact a fake if it is canceled by the postmark of the locality in which such stamps arrived only three weeks after this date. Postal history is of interest in its own right. There are still many unknowns in the work of the postal service, millions of old envelopes have been preserved, which are a vast field for the study of postal artifacts.     Gallows (mail)     Universal Postal Convention     Universal Postal Union     Postage stamps     Russian Postal History     Communication Museum     Thurn and Taxis Post     Postal Museum     List of postal and philatelic museums in the world     Stefan, Heinrich von     Project:Philately and Postal / Postal History Literature Mail // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron: in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - St. Petersburg, 1890-1907. (Accessed: December 2, 2010) Science Museum (London). Kissin B. M. Country Philately / Ed. V. Nezdvetsky. - M .: Education, 1969. - 240 p. — 100,000 copies. (Accessed: July 15, 2016) See, for example, E. Seton-Thompson's Little Savages. Postal History - article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia. (Accessed: June 19, 2011) Ancient mail // Big philatelic dictionary / N. I. Vladinets, L. I. Ilyichev, I. Ya. Levitas, P. F. Mazur, I. N. Merkulov, I. A. Morosanov, Yu. K. Myakota, S. A. Panasyan, Yu. M. Rudnikov, M. B. Slutsky, V. A. Yakobs; under total ed. N. I. Vladints and V. A. Jacobs. - M .: Radio and communication, 1988. - S. 76. - 320 p. - 40,000 copies. — ISBN 5-256-00175-2. (Accessed: July 14, 2010) Postal History - article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia. (Accessed: June 15, 2011) Drawing from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, no. 275, April, 1873. This section uses information translated into Russian from a German article in German. Geschichte der Post. Hemerodromes // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron: in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - St. Petersburg, 1890-1907. Rheinhessen Postal Museum[de], Erbes-Büdesheim (Germany). The history of mail distribution in Russia: Yamskaya chase. "When I served as a coachman at the post office ...". News of our mail. World Post; World Post Logistics Co. Ltd (April 4, 2015). Retrieved October 15, 2015. Archived from the original on October 15, 2015. Drawing from the German brochure “Gantz Nagel-neue Reichs-Zeitung. Im Jahr 1683". Vintage postcard The idea that it was possible at that time to travel around the world in less than three months formed the basis of the adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). What, where, when // Philately of the USSR. - 1975. - No. 11. - P. 48. Postal signs // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron: in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - St. Petersburg, 1890-1907. (Accessed: December 2, 2010) Sutton R. J. The Stamp Collector's Encyclopaedia / Revised by K. W. Anthony. — 6th ed. — L.: Stanley Paul, 1966. — 390 p. — ISBN 0-517-08024-9. (English) (Date of access: November 21, 2009) Karpenko Yu. A. Science? Or is it not science? (In order of discussion) // Soviet collector; Collection. - M .: Communication, 1975. - Issue. 13. - S. 100-104. Cabeen R. McP. Standard Handbook of Stamp Collecting / Collectors Club of Chicago[en] Committee on Publications. - New York, NY, USA: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1979. (English) Young W. G. Stamp Collecting A-Z. Archived November 2, 2015 at the Wayback Machine - 1st edn. - A S Barnes & Co, 1987. - ISBN 0-498-02479-2. (English) (Date of access: November 21, 2009)     Big Philatelic Dictionary / N. I. Vladinets, L. I. Ilyichev, I. Ya. Levitas, P. F. Mazur, I. N. Merkulov, I. A. Morosanov, Yu. K. Myakota, S. A. Panasyan, Yu. M. Rudnikov, M. B. Slutsky, V. A. Yakobs; under total ed. N. I. Vladints and V. A. Jacobs. - M .: Radio and communication, 1988. - 320 p. - 40,000 copies. — ISBN 5-256-00175-2. Literature     Arlazorov M.S. You have a letter! - M .: Soviet Russia, 1966. - 230 p.     Vigilev D. How a strip of glue was invented // Philately of the USSR. - 1974. - No. 8. - S. 26-27.     Guzhnovsky A. L. History of mail in illustrations // Philatelist. - Bratsk: E. A. Semenenko (Kaliningrad), 2007. - No. 4-5. (Accessed 11 August 2020) Archived from the original on 11 September 2019.     Katsaraki V.N. Mail // Soviet collector. - 1929. - No. 4-6. - P. 1-13.     When and why did the first postage stamp appear // Philately of the USSR. - 1975. - No. 10. - P. 62. RUSSIAN POST: HISTORY AND MODERNITY October 9 is celebrated as International Post Day around the world. Russian Post celebrates its day - July 14th. RUSSIAN POST HISTORY AND MODERNITY The foundations of Russian mail were laid in the last quarter of the 9th century, at the beginning of the existence of Kievan Rus. True, then messages and dispatches were sent mainly by princes. Ordinary people had to unquestioningly provide the princely messengers with horses and food: such a duty was called a “cart”. In 1266, almost a century earlier than in Germany, the country with the most developed post office at that time, the first document regulating postal exchange appeared in Rus': the rules for the passage of messengers through Russian lands. Alas, the Tatar-Mongol invasion that happened soon after this not only ruined the Russian state, but also stopped the development of Russian mail for several centuries. The only thing that the Russians borrowed from the enslavers was the new name of the post office - Yamskaya chase. Horses, which were provided by the local population, also walked between the stations. The peasants themselves carried messengers on horseback. The distance between the pits was up to 100 kilometers. Thus, the peasant could "drop out" of household chores for several days. Moreover, this work was not paid. The new postal era begins from the moment of the liberation of Rus' from the yoke - from the end of the 15th century. The first postal institutions appear, new types of postal services appear. Foreigners visiting the Muscovite state in those days already call the work of coachmen "mail" - they recognize in it all the signs of the best postal services in Europe. Coachmen began to receive remuneration for their work only under Ivan the Terrible. Regular postal chase (delivery of letters) from Moscow to Arkhangelsk, St. Petersburg, Astrakhan, Azov, Kyiv, and even across Siberia to Kyakhta to the Chinese border, as well as to the "German countries" - the Baltics, Scandinavia and German lands - is organized and develops at the end XVII - early XVIII centuries. Riga (to Riga) and Vilna (to Vilna, later - Vilnius) mail was sometimes called "merchant" mail, because at first the bulk of correspondence sent abroad was letters from foreign merchants. Ordinary people could not afford postal services. The "German" post of Muscovy was a state-owned enterprise, while in Europe the system of delivering letters by private enterprises was widely used. Inside the vast country, coachmen continued to deliver mail. The existence in parallel of two postal systems - "German" and Yamskaya - created many inconveniences, therefore, from the middle of the 18th century. the merger of both services into a single Russian Post began. Moreover, the mail of those times delivers not only letters and parcels, but also more exotic things - for example, the Yamsky Post Office of Moscow was subordinate to the "fruit" mail, which promptly delivered grapes, watermelons and melons to the royal table. It is noteworthy that at the same time, ordinary postal routes were rather archaic: only from the second half of the 18th century. regular horse mail lines began to approach some county towns, industrial centers and places of extraction of resources vital to the state. On local lines, postmen most often walked from city to city. In the early 70s of the XVIII century. “exemplary” postal lines are being laid to the Baltic States and Belarus with stations for changing horses and resting people along the entire route. At the "exemplary" post offices, for the first time, the post of station keeper was created, later known as the "station master". Since 1773, the Russian postal service began to accept bills of exchange and money everywhere. At about the same time, the famous postal troikas of horses appeared - the fastest form of mail transportation at that time, as well as postal bells, notifying all passing and oncoming ones that you need to give way to the postal relay race. At the end of the XVIII century. the first postmarks appear, imprinted with paint on each letter and indicating that the sender of the letter paid for the postal services for forwarding and his letter was taken for storage and delivery to the addressee by the Russian Post. In 1801, a book was published in St. Petersburg - “A manual road builder for use on the way between the imperial All-Russian capitals, giving Historical, Geographical and Political news about cities according to it; with a description of philistine rituals, clothes, dialects and types of the best places. In fact, this book became the first guidebook in Russia. During the terrible fire of Moscow in 1812, in which 6,532 out of 9,158 houses burned down, the building of the Moscow Post Office and the post office church of the Archangel Gabriel, which still stands on the territory of the capital’s post office, were defended from the fire by postal employees along with French soldiers who understood the importance of mail for both opposing sides. And it was the courier (military postman) who delivered the first rthe good news that on October 7, 1812, Napoleon left the burnt and devastated Moscow. In 1837, for the first time in history, mail was transported from St. Petersburg to Pavlovsk by a new "miracle transport" - the railway. On December 22, 1857, the Postal Department of the Russian Empire issued the first postage stamp in the history of the country with a face value of "10 kopecks per lot", that is, for every 13 grams of a letter's weight. A total of three million stamps were issued. Today, the price of one such quick (that is, not passed through the mail and not stamped) stamp reaches 1.2 million rubles. On March 31, 1918, already in the days of Soviet power, military pilot Petrov flew 600 kilometers in 4 hours and 10 minutes with a cargo of mail and one passenger. It was the first air mail flight in history. During World War II, hundreds of millions of letters, parcels and the famous soldier's "triangles" (sheets of paper folded in a special way and sent by mail - for lack of envelopes) were delivered by military postmen from the front to the rear and back. Tens of thousands of military postmen died in the line of duty. In the city of Voronezh in 2016, with the support of the Russian Post, a monument to the military postman was erected. The interest of the inhabitants of the USSR in postal services in the postwar years was so great that the number of letters, parcels, newspapers and magazines delivered by postmen quickly reached pre-war levels. For example, in Moscow in the early 1950s, there were eight communication offices in the city - then the post offices were called so because they combined the post office, telephone exchange and telegraph. By the end of the 1950s, there were already 15 such offices, and in 1988 - 33. The number of simple post offices, which were traditionally located on the first floors of residential buildings under construction, grew even more rapidly. In 1946, there were 157 of them in Moscow. And after only twenty years - already 484! The same thing happened with mailboxes. If in 1946 there were 2085 boxes hanging on the walls of the capital's houses, then in 1990 - 8650. Already in 1960-1970, it was at the post offices that the first vending machines appeared (they sold postcards), sorting and stamping machines, and even prototypes of modern copiers. In the 1990s, with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the crisis in all spheres of society, the post office also began to experience serious difficulties. Many projects for the development of postal communications in the country were suspended or completely canceled. Nevertheless, the post office in those years remained one of the few enterprises where employees were guaranteed timely payment of wages. On June 28, 2002, the Government of the Russian Federation approved the concept of restructuring federal postal organizations, according to which all existing federal postal organizations were merged and the Federal State Unitary Enterprise (FSUE) Russian Post was created. The corresponding order of the Government of the Russian Federation was issued on September 5, 2002 No. 1227-r. The process was lengthy and difficult and ended only in 2009, when the postal service of the Republic of Tatarstan, Tatarstan Post, the last of the independent regional postal services, became part of the FSUE Russian Post. From that moment on, the Russian Post became one. On June 29, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin signed a law on the corporatization of the Russian Post, which provides for the transformation of the enterprise into a non-public joint-stock company, 100% of whose shares will be owned by the state. 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By the 18th century, the nation had greatly expanded through conquest, annexation, and exploration to become the Russian Empire, which was the third largest empire in history, stretching from Poland on the west to Alaska on the east.[21][22] Following the Russian Revolution, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic became the largest and leading constituent of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the world's first constitutionally socialist state.[23] The Soviet Union played a decisive role in the Allied victory in World War II,[24][25] and emerged as a recognized superpower and rival to the United States during the Cold War. The Soviet era saw some of the most significant technological achievements of the 20th century, including the world's first human-made satellite and the launching of the first humans in space. By the end of 1990, the Soviet Union had the world's second largest economy, largest standing military in the world and the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction.[26][27][28] Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, twelve independent republics emerged from the USSR: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and the Baltic states regained independence: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania; the Russian SFSR reconstituted itself as the Russian Federation and is recognized as the continuing legal personality and sole successor state of the Soviet Union.[29] It is governed as a federal semi-presidential republic. The Russian economy ranks as the twelfth largest by nominal GDP and sixth largest by purchasing power parity in 2015.[30] Russia's extensive mineral and energy resources are the largest such reserves in the world,[31] making it one of the leading producers of oil and natural gas globally.[32][33] The country is one of the five recognized nuclear weapons states and possesses the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction.[34] Russia is a great power as well as a regional power and has been characterised as a potential superpower. 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    • Condition: Item is on picture! 100% ORIGINAL. Fast Prime Express shipping with package number Worldwide!
    • Certification: Uncertified
    • Color: Multi-Color
    • Country/Region of Origin: Albania
    • Currency: Lek
    • Grade: Ungraded
    • Modified Item: No
    • Place of Origin: Albania
    • Quality: Mint Never Hinged/MNH
    • Topic: Bears
    • Type: Air Mail
    • Year of Issue: 1961-1970

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