day of the stamp - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1959 - 2.40 Shilling

The stamp of this stamp shows a Roman tourist car after the relief on the well-known Roman tombstone in Maria Saal. It refers to a facet of the postal system, which has been further perfected in the course of history also by the general technical development: the transportation of persons and postal items. While today we travel by postbus, you drove in antiquity by car or rode on horses of the Cursus Publicus, the Roman state post. But at that time, you had to have a state permit for it, and there were no timetables travelers could keep. Thus the Cursus Publicus, which runs on Austrian territory, is only a forerunner of today's post. After all, the Austrian Post is almost 2000 years old. The very beautiful car from Roman times, which can be seen on the present brand motif in connection with a travel scene, shows a very vivid picture from the time in which our country has passed through the excellent Roman roads a varied traffic from post office to post office , It was only a thousand years after the fall of the Roman Empire that a postal service comparable to these conditions was established from 1500 onwards; regular postal carriage traffic began in Austria around 1750.