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Mail in the everyday life language a document or an article, which is brought with the help of the post office to a receiver, is called.
At the Federal Post Office and/or the German post office of the GDR the mail was a collective term for all transmissions, which were certified for mailing.
Also at the German post office AG there is still numerous of the kinds of mail mentioned, the product range by different offers was extended. The term mail is however still used hardly.
Postage or postage (v. lat.: postage = I carries) calls one the fees raised for these services. The payment of these fees normally takes place via the purchase and gluing on stamps. One calls this procedure also ''' a franking ''' or "freeing".
Additional postage or extra postage: If a transmission were not sufficiently franked by the sender, the post office lifts the difference, possibly with punishing addition, from the receiver in. For it if stamps were used, then one speaks of postage-due stamps, postage-due stamps or simply postage marks.
There are different forms to complete mails (called in Germany dispatching form). These can differ after security and speed.
To the safe transmissions belong: Writing, declared values, cash on deliveries and Zustellungsurkunden.
To the faster transmissions belong: Air mail, express delivery and the telegram.
For the transport the post office enterprises raise a increased payment, which is different depending upon the special dispatching form.
The dispatching form presupposes compellingly a certain kind of transmission!
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