The oldest postal document is the Hibeh papyrus, which contains the recordings of the first post office master. This removed far moves forward an upper post office secretary, as because and Ludwig Thoma on ground connection and in the sky saw it, lived two hundred one hundred years before Christi birth contrary to today predominantly with ball-point pens written or on typewriter the typed letters was written that first mail with the diagonally cut brush stem, which the writer had dipped into tin upperred. The first postal message originates from the first pre-Christian century; a hieroglyphische role, which prescription of a physician, which had been set for its patient and only 2000 years later, with a bomb attack on Leipzig, 1944 were destroyed. It might have been nevertheless the mail.

Much points on the fact that in the eastern countries already in the fourth millenium before Christ regular transmissions of news, even between very far from each other removes, had taken place for convenient places. Since the letters were written not on papyrus, but engraved on Tonplatten, the range of postal activity was very limited, and for the postmen it might have been a comfort that even the princes inhabited only ebenerdige houses at that time. Clay/tone board letters were often days, months and probably years on the way, before they arrived from the sender to the receiver.

The fact that in the second millenium before Christ, rather regularly, messengers announced the water level of the Nile its run along, one - contrary to some historical books concerning the post office - should not as postal, but when understands intelligence service.

China

In China the post office was already accomplished in very far past pre-Christian time by nationally bestallte couriers, who made the feed depending upon the distance which can be put back, to foot or mounted. The giantful realm was equipped at the most important caravan ways with post office stations, which granted accommodation and food supply on public expenses to the couriers and for the care or renewal of the horse material provided. The post office executive committees of these stations received full exemption from taxes from the state, as return for their efforts.

Persia

With the Persern Kyros 550 introduced a permanent postal service with riding messengers before Christ.

Roman realm

With Julius began a regular courier service, to which one cannot deny a certain postal character. The buildings of stations established in intervals at the freeways exhibit a certain relationship with the later post office yards. Riding and cart horses could be replaced at these quiescent stations, exactly the same as it at the kutschen and rider post office the case were later. There it around regular, fixed stations acted, it Latin posita was called, from which over Italian posta our today still valid designation developed post office.

Emperor Augustus created the first transporting enterprise for the post office and transportation of human beings, to which he gave the name Cursus Publicus.

Islamic realm

In the Islamic realm 650 around all important cities were connected not only by roads, but also by post office couriers around the year.

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