Post vehicles - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 2016 - 100 Euro Cent

The stamp shows a postman from around 1900 on a three-wheeled bicycle. He wears a postal uniform with red cuffs and service badge on the collar and a uniform cap. Between the rear wheels of the tricycle is a spacious box in classic "postgelber" color fixed in which the letters were transported. Letter collectors often traveled by bicycle to empty the mailboxes and then take the collected mail to the post offices for further processing and distribution. At the beginning of the 20th century, motorized bicycles were already used, because of the large transport box often as multi-lane vehicles. Mailboxes have existed in Austria since 1817, when the postage payment system was reorganized - in principle the recipient had to bear the fees at that time. The background image of the brand block shows an old view of the Rennweg in Vienna at the height of the former building of the Staatsdruckerei, looking towards the city. Behind the bicycle is the Baroque Salesian church with its distinctive dome recognizable. Numerous people are on foot, with a two-horse carriage in the background, the typical means of transport of the time. Even today, around 1,000 bicycles are still in use at Austrian Post, more than half of them electric bicycles. As part of the "CO2 neutral delivery" initiative, Swiss Post has been providing CO2-neutral mail, parcels, magazines and advertising mailings with "green logistics" since 2011 - in addition to energy efficiency, alternative energy sources and forms of transport, and climate protection projects. The expansion of e-mobility is an important step in this direction. In addition, 20% of all delivery districts are already supplied by foot or bicycle in the area of ​​delivery.