"All 4 volumes with all parts of 'Postage Fees, Airmail, Letter and Parcel Post' by Paul Kainbacher"
Volume I: Handbook of Letter and Parcel Post in Austria-Hungary 1588-1918
Volume II: Handbook of Letter and Parcel Post in Austria-Hungary 1588-1918
Volume III, Part 1: Postage Fees in Austria 1919-2006 for Domestic Mail
Volume III, Part 2: Postage Fees in Austria 1919-2006 for Domestic Mail
Volume IV, Part 1: Austrian Airmail – Airmail Surcharges for Letters with Weight Fees and Airmail Surcharges for Parcels (International), 1946-2007, and International Postage Fees (Surface and Sea Mail), 1945-2007
Volume IV, Part 2: Austrian Airmail – Airmail Surcharges for Letters with Weight Fees and Airmail Surcharges for Parcels (International), 1946-2007, and International Postage Fees (Surface and Sea Mail), 1945-2007
Köflach, self-published 2000–2008. 4to. VIII, 464; VIII, 320 pages with numerous illustrations, color depictions, and 1 colored, folded map in the back pocket of Volume 2 (shows: Postal zone map with a directory of all postal locations of Austria-Hungary). Volume 3 (in 2 parts): 1800 pages with 200 pages of color illustrations. 2 volumes. 1650 pages with 100 pages of color illustrations. 2 volumes. Original cloth bindings with gold embossing on spine and cover. As new! Lavishly produced publication by Paul Kainbacher Sr. (born 1937 in Wolfsberg), an essential reference work for every collector. Contents of Volume 3 include: The beginnings of traveling post, postal patents, postal regulations and circulars, 1588–1918; letter post tariffs from 1661–1918; rates for overweight letters; cash on delivery in internal Austrian traffic 1860–1918; delivery and receipt slips, inquiry letters, special fees, forwarding, consignment notes, official postal money orders, postal assignments, telegrams, registration, returns, fees, packaging and sealing, maps, weights, currency. There are also some interesting chapters on the margins of the topic; regulations on packaging and sealing, weights, currencies, as well as regulations on the blowing of the post horn signal. Also included are maps of the Illyrian Provinces from 1810–1814 as well as of Europe during the time of Napoleon I, and as an insert in Volume 2 a facsimile of the postal zone map of Austria-Hungary in original size. Awards: Vermeil at the WIPA 2000, Gold at the Alpe-Adria-Philately 2000 in Codroipo, and the Bronze Post Horn in Sindelfingen 2000.
The handbook includes all postal services for domestic traffic from 1919 to 2006, including the period from 1938 to 1945.
An excerpt from the table of contents: Postal regulations and decrees, letter fees, insured letters, registered mail, accompanying address forms, parcel fees, money orders, cash on delivery, postal assignments, late mailings, collection fees, return receipts, express delivery, pneumatic mail, airmail surcharges, station letters, postal authorizations, storage charges, delivery fees, lockers, inquiries, impossibility of delivery, court services, customs clearance, censorship, telegraph fees, postal traffic with customs exclusion zones, exempted, integrated and occupied territories, German and Austrian military mail, prisoner of war mail, and much more.
The new beginning of the Austrian Post from 1945 onward is discussed in detail, including the transition and enforcement of individual fees.
Contents of Volume 4:
The handbook includes all airmail surcharges with corrections for international letter and parcel services, with airmail regulations, additional services such as airmail-insured letter service with fees, COD in airmail letter service, aerograms, printed matter, express service, postage of airmail items, cash payment for airmail items, overfranked airmail letters, postage deficiencies in airmail items, delivery of airmail items, resumption of airmail services, inaugural and first flights, special airmail dispatches, routing of airmail letters, airmail postcards, temporary suspension and resumption of airmail traffic, and postal fees for international letter and parcel traffic (land and sea routes) with all additional fees and services, international business correspondence with paid reply, large customer international letter service, urgent parcel traffic, bulky and fragile parcels, free label traffic, airmail collection parcels, S.A.L. parcel service, Euro-parcel, airmail-insured parcel service, COD service, printed matter shipments, press distribution service, money order service, insured letter traffic, insured parcel traffic, customs clearance postal fees, temporary suspension and resumption of postal traffic, conversion tables Schilling to gold francs, conversion tables Schilling to special drawing rights.
Brand new and originally packaged.
