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Post office and post boxes in my country

A short history of the post office

Post boxes are not the same all over the world. They have their own history and some of them are small pieces of art. Next time you pass by a post box, letter box, mail box or as you like to call it, take a closer look.

Ierissos Junior High School

Today, we took advantage of the beautiful weather, and with a group of students, we visited our local post-office. We took some photos and asked the post office clerk to inform us about the letter distribution system. The students will spread the information they got to the rest of the students who participate in our project and upload it on our special page and our blog. Hellenic post! We the Greeks are Hellenes, Greece is Hellas.

Student's Report of our visit to the post office

In case someone wants to send a letter, he has to go to the local post office. There he buys a stamp, the price of which depends on the destination of the letter and its weight. Then he give the letter to the clerk in the post office.

All the letters are collected and they are sent to Thessaloniki when the post office is closed at 3 o'clock.

In Thessaloniki, the letters are separated according to their destination. However some letters are sent to Athens and from there to their final destination. A night, the latest, they are sent to their recipients in different destinations.

Reporter: Mary, A class, Ierissos Junior High School

A series of stamps circulated to commemorate the 190 years of Hellenic Post.

Here goes the story: On 24 September 1828, the first governor of Greece, Ioannis Kapodistrias, signed the XVII resolution issued on Poros "for the establishment of a regular postal service", thereby founding the "General Post". 190 years later Hellenic Post still plays a leading role in Greece in postal services. It is Greece's oldest company.

Post Boxes in Poland

Post office in Poland.

Older letter boxes from Poland in Lublin.

Modern post post boxes in Poland.

Post Boxes in Germany

This is a post office in Stuttgart

This post box is really beautiful with its elaborate artistic style.

But this one looks even more artistic. Looks like it is a doll's post office!

A modern post box, only straight lines, a more rational perspective.

And a historical as it is shown on a commemorative stamp.

Post Boxes in Romania

Older and modern post boxes. The older onew were more rounded, smoother lines.

Post Boxes in Ukraine

A vintage mail box from Ukraine.

Some more modern ones.

Post Boxes in Czeck Republic

Looking for information on Czeck Republics postal services, I came across something I thought it existed only in the movies. I found about the "Pneumatic postal services" in Prague. What is that? Let's find out together.

The artcilce says "The Prague pneumatic post (Czech: Pražská potrubní pošta) is the world’s last preserved municipal pneumatic post system. Once the dream of modern technology, the very thought of sending messages and parcels zipping through miles of tubes, powered by air pressure and vacuums, most of these pneumatic dispatches have all but disappeared."

Many big cities had that system. Let's see how it works.

This is Prague's beautiful post office building.

From the inside. Look at those beautifully decorated walls!!!

A post box from Krumlov an old medieval town.

Modern Czeck Republic's postal services.

And some post boxes.....modern and ....older.

Karlstein, Central Bohemia.

And a commemorative stamp with Czeck post boxes.

Post Boxes in Serbia

And commemorative stamps' series on Serbia's postal services.

Post Boxes in Italy

Italy, letters, Romeo and Juliette...

In this mail box you can wirte a letter to Juleitte! Isn't it unique in its kind?

Let's see some more. We can find many photos of mail boxes on the internet. It is seems that they attract the photographers' attention by their design, their decorations, their shape. Maybe it is the romantic idea of communication through letter writing. There are in many shapes and designs and they have a certain mystery someitmes.

LETTERE

The owner of this mail box seems to be quite artistic. S/he creates a beautiful design which expands the box and elevetes it to art. An everyday object becomes art.

Although they are not so artistic, their shape and colour seem to juxtapose their purpose and create something intersting to look at.

This is an old Italian letter box or "Cassetta per le lettere".

This one was found in Naples. Really beautiful.

These are form Rome and ...an old one from Venice. Can you see the face? The manufacturer probably had an humouristic perspective and gave to this ordinary object a unique character.