day of the stamp - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1984 - 6 Shilling

The brand motif shows writing slaves on a painting from the burial chamber of Zechemnofer III, which dates to around 2420 BC. was built near the Great Pyramid of Giza. A historical retrospective of the development of mail transport was at the center of Stamp Day Day activities in 1984. The need to engage in the exchange of information within the human community is as old as humanity itself. Technical progress that narrows or even narrows distances disappears, is still quite young. Telephone and Telegraph are inventions of the 19th Century and by a regulated, reasonably functioning postal system can hardly be spoken before the 18th century. Therefore, until then there was generally only a halfway reliable medium of communication, the human being itself - the messenger. Organized transport systems, very similar to modern post offices, have already been proven by the ancient Egyptians. The highest standard before the emergence of the modern postal transport system, however, was the Roman cursus Publicus. It was the basis of the well-functioning Roman postal system and existed until the fifth century AD, and even longer in the Eastern Roman Empire.