day of the stamp - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 2002 - 150 Euro Cent

The brand artist and railway lover Maria Siegl has presented a railway mail car from the interwar period in 2002, based on a suggestion made by Philatelist Association President Erich Bober. In 2003, it will be one from the post-war period. Most train post courses have already been discontinued, so one can almost speak of nostalgia, if stamps on the railway is thought. It was introduced at the time, the time of transport for the time-consuming sorting mainly the mail - the postman says "mapping" way - to use. In recent decades, on the one hand the travel times, but on the other hand, the residence times in the stations were always shorter, so that it - except for the use of whole mail trains - had to come to a mutual obstruction of train and mail. Extremely short mapping times were expected from the modern sorting machines, so that it is irrelevant if the post office is not processed on the journey. The illustrated car was built in 1919 in Graz and delivered to the then German-Austrian State Railways. Around 1930, a heater was installed. In 1938 he became the property of the German Reichspost. After the war, he remained, like all mail cars, the property of the post office. It was rebuilt in 1966 at the SGP plant in Graz to Spantenwagen and finally retired in 1996 and scrapped.