Postal History
The following presentations are currently available:
Railway Mail in Chinon 1864 - 1970: the collection shows the date stamps of the Railway Post Offices (Bureaux Ambulants, Courriers-Convoyeurs and Station Attendants) which were used on the lines crossing the district of Chinon. The collection starts in 1864 (the year of the creation of the mobile office Tours - La Rochelle) and ends in 1970 (the year when passenger traffic was closed on the line Thouars - Chinon).
This collection focuses on the railway postal history of the lines crossing the district of Chinon.
Postal marks of the district of Chinon 1792 - 1884: the district of Chinon was created in 1800. It succeeded the districts of Chinon and Langeais, created as an administrative division of the department of Indre et Loire in 1790. In 1824, the canton of Château-la-Vallière leaves the district of Chinon and is joined to that of Tours. From this date and until the cantonal redistribution in 2014, the borough of Chinon is made up of seven cantons: Azay-le-Rideau, Bourgueil, Chinon, L'Île-Bouchard, Langeais, Richelieu and Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine.
This collection focuses on the postal history of the arrondissement of Chinon and shows the use of postmarks in this region.
Postal marks of the cantons of Saint-Jean-de-Luz and Hendaye 1792 - 1914: a post office was opened in Saint-Jean-de-Luz around 1710, and in the canton of Hendaye, a distribution office in Béhobie in 1841 which became a direction office in 1844. In 1790, the two cantons became part of the department of Basses Pyrénées (n° 64), called Pyrénées Atlantiques since 1969. The first chapter of this collection deals with the mail managed by the sedentary offices located in the two cantons and by the railway post on the Irun to Bayonne line. The 2nd chapter deals with international mail crossing the two cantons. It shows the evolution of overland postal services between France and states further north and Spain, Portugal and states further south. To control the volume of international mail, the French Post Office relied on the services of sedentary offices (Bayonne, St. Jean-de-Luz, Paris) and later, after 1860, on postal railways services on the line Bayonne to Bordeaux, and after 1864, on the line Irun to Bordeaux.
This collection focuses on the postal history of the postal district of Saint-Jean-de-Luz and shows the use of postmarks in this territory.
The Brazilian samba: between June 30, 1988 and July 1, 1998, in a decade, Brazil experienced a period of intense inflation. Regarding only the Post, there are no less than seventy rate changes that have had to undergo users.
Faced with this explosion, the country issued stamps with no face value, which was replaced by the service to which the stamp corresponded. These had a fiduciary value that changed over time. He also changed currency four times, going from cruzado to new cruzado, then from this to cruzeiro, then from cruzeiro to cruzeiro real and, finally, from cruzeiro real to real.
He also experimented with a special stamp for the registration fee, which could serve to materialize payment of the fee but also, more simply, be used for standard postage. This stamp can thus be found on ordinary letters, not registered.
On an air of czardas: in Hungary, between January 14 and June 30, 1946, the price of a local letter of less than 20g was multiplied by ... six hundred million! This monstrous hyperinflation is reputed to be the most important in the world, at all times and in all places, ahead of Zimbabwe and Yugoslavia, Germany very often associated with the word inflation being only ... fourth.
The franking of the mail, in the event of hyperinflation, poses with any postal administration the problem of the production of stamps in sufficient number and at a good value. The price of raw materials (paper, ink, glue ...) constantly increasing, it is interesting to produce as many stamps as possible as soon as possible. On the other hand, the price of the services in exchange for which the mail is freed constantly increasing, there is no point in producing objects which will become obsolete the next day.
The post office, in the event of hyperinflation, is therefore faced with a dilemma which can be summarized as follows: "neither too much nor too little". Among all the techniques that Hungary has experienced, there is one which consisted in overprinting old values by the use for which the stamps were intended.
This study presents this series of stamps with a face value corresponding to the use for which they were made and the consequences of their use on postage, between January 14, date of issue of the first series, and January 30 June 1946, the date on which they all lost all legitimacy.
The presentation is accessible via the following link: http://www.exponet.info/exhibit.php?exhibit_ID=924&lng=EN You simply need to copy this character string into your browser and launch it. You will then see the presentation.
The presentation is accessible via the following link: http://www.exponet.info/exhibit.php?exhibit_ID=823&lng=EN You simply need to copy this character string into your browser and launch it. You will then see the presentation.
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