postcards

Postcard now global fashion, colorful flowers, is a lovely Youyuan in. As for the origin and the developing process of postcards, I am afraid many people may not know.

The advent of postcards, which has a history of 130 years. According to historical records, in 1865 October of the day, a German painter in the hard cardboard painted a very beautiful painting, ready to send him a friend as a souvenir of marriage. But he mailed to the post office, the post office to sell the envelope is not a under the picture card installed. The painter was difficult, a postal clerk recommended artists will be the recipient's address, name written in pictures sent back, indeed, that no envelope pictures as a letter sent to a friend the same hands. In this way, the world's first self-made a "postcards" quietly was born. From this point of view, the postcard artist and co inventor of the postal clerk. In November 30th the same year, Congress in the Deutsche Post Federation, a proposal, in order to write, can use does not require a set of letters -- postcards but deputies have different views about, this proposal was not accepted.

In 1869, a Austria doctor published articles suggest, should develop a postcard, and classified them as printed matter mail postage, in order to reduce the price. Austria Postal Department accepted his proposal. In October 1st the same year, postcards was released in Vienna post office. Therefore, Austria has become the first world countries issued postcards.

Easy to use as postcards, postage cheap, welcomed by the people of Austria, posting only 3 months about 3000000. German postal service after hearing be startled at regret, and in 1870 July formally issued postcards. Then, the British, American, method, postcards, Switzerland and other countries have also come out of.