Force post office one calls the combined person and post office transport the Federal Post Office in post office penalties, by the German realm Reich and/or, as a successor of the Postkutsche. Since 1965 were used officially the designation post office travel service.

The first force post office line in Germany was furnished by the postal administration of the Kingdom of Bavaria starting from 1 June 1905 between bath and Lenggries. The person penalty used by the force post office mail boxes had on board, into the post office to be thrown in could. After a war-conditioned stagnation in the development the force post office experienced its first bloom into the 1920er and early 1930er years, when with force post office lines the rural area was opened. Here there was a strong north-south gap, since in the flat country already a close net at railway lines existed north Germans, whereas in South Germany force post office penalty in many rural municipalities to larger traffic routes represented the first binding. Beside a close linear network also in particular trip travels were organized. The "German alpine post office in such a way specified" was important means of transport in the skiing areas of the German alps. Further remote lines in Germany (among other things heath post office, Eifel post office, Black Forest post office, Bavarian forest post office) and into the neighboring countries (alps Adria post office, Isar Engadin post office) were added.

Following by the way also in Austria and Switzerland in the years 1906 and 1907 appropriate force post office lines had been furnished to the German example. These become until today under the designations post office bus (Austria) and post office car (Switzerland) operated.

Also after the Second World War in West Germany close route network of the force post office was developed, while the force postal service in East Germany ended 1953 (transfer into state-owned transporting enterprises). At the bloom time in the middle of the 1950er was the force post office - like already in the 1920er and 1930er years - again the largest bus enterprise of Europe also over 4.000 post office-own buses. Due to the increasing individual traffic and also structurally end of the 1950er however already began years the economic fall of the post office penalty. As in common-economical enterprise the Federal Post Office was obligated also to the maintenance of uneconomic lines. The portion of not cost-hitting a corner traffic with pupil and social tariffs constantly increased.

To 18. March 1976 after lengthy political decision-making processes the course and post office penalty were united to the bus traffic community course/post office, which introduced the transition of the post office travel service to the course bus service of the German Federal Railroads, which operated a net as rail spare traffic parallel to railroad lines. Before the post office travel service had achieved 1974 with 435 million passengers the highest transport number in the 80 years of its existence. A goal of the combination was it to operate and meeting demand develop the public local passenger traffic with penalties economically. For this purpose first four common regional bus companies were created as pilot projects, which stood under direction of the German Federal Railroads. In the remaining parts of Germany the German Federal Railroads on resolution of the Federal Cabinet from 25 June 1980 transferred all bus services operated by course and post office to 1 January 1981 under its direction. In 19 regions on public basis regionalisierte bus companies separated from the remaining course organization were furnished. These partly carried XY" for the names "division course bus (GBB), partly already names like "regional traffic XY" however with exception of the region Here only the regional traffic swabia (RVA) transferred, a subsidiary the regional traffic Upper Bavaria (RVO) in the the last part still alone the Federal Postal Administration of being subordinate post office travel service in the federal territory to 1 June 1985.

However - and this is often unknown - the Federal Post Office was involved until 1995 in the regional bus enterprises. These were united united federal transporting enterprises GmbH" (VBG) under the roof of the entrepreneurial group ". Partners of the VBG were the German Federal Railroads and the Federal Post Office. (1994 partners German Federal Railroads = railways AG; 1995 partners the Federal Post Office = PDB postal service participation GmbH). With the post office reform 1995 then however the era ended finally, which had gone already ten years before with the delivery of the last yellow Postomnibusse for the public visibly to end. The last vehicles procured by the Federal Postal Administration into the 1980er years were however still into the 1990er years with the follow-up enterprises in the use.

The regional bus companies are today successfully into the entrepreneurial group German course under the roof of railways city traffic integrated. Four regional bus enterprises, the regional traffic Cologne, regional traffic Hanover, motor traffic Stade/Lueneburg and regional bus Augsburg had been however already sold until 1995 to public and/or private transport enterprises and local regional administrative bodies.

Standardized cross-country buses since the 1970er years, which were provided as characteristic however with a mail box (i.d.R. in the front door area, were used).

Strange way was however the last post office bus driver of Germany until recently still in the service. Five post office bus drivers fought for with the assumption of the post office bus line Ingolstadt - Beilngries by the German Federal Railroads a special arrangement, after which they remained further post office officials, however from now on in course penalties between Ingolstadt and Beilngries service did. This regulation remained existing also, as which regional course bus enterprise "regional bus Augsburg" (RBA) was denationalized. The last one of the five, Peter Brandl, went only to at the end of January 2006 into retirement. Peter Brandls bus was up to the conclusion always also a kind mobile post office, because it offered on the way further postal service achievements like e.g. Stamp sales on.

In the anniversary year 2005 (mechanism of the first German force post office before 100 years) one special post office stamp and two books appeared for memory of the force post office.

See also

• Post office car (Switzerland)
• Post office bus (Austria)

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