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When celebrated
Post Day 2022 fell on July 10. Every year it is celebrated on the second Sunday of this summer month.
The holiday aims to show the high importance of the industry for the country and its citizens, despite the active development of Internet technologies.
More than three billion letters, parcels, invoices pass through the country’s post offices every year. Responsibility, attentiveness, patience are the qualities that every employee of this type of activity should possess.
history of the holiday
Mankind has always been looking for ways to transmit information over long distances. Since stone times, smoke from a fire, beats on a signal drum have been used as a warning of impending danger. Later, pigeon mail appeared, where a message written in ink was tied to a bird’s paw. There was also the transmission of information through messengers. They memorized the message and reported it to the addressee. The work was not enviable. Everyone knows the fact that the bearers of bad news were often killed.
The history of the appearance of the state postal service goes back to the reign of Peter I, when a decree was issued on the creation of the first route linking several cities from Moscow to Arkhangelsk. The decree regulated the work of post offices, requirements for personnel, the responsibility of carriers for the delivery and safety of the property entrusted to them.
In the 1833th century, the first Moscow post offices appeared, which gradually began to open in all cities of the country. In XNUMX, the first letter boxes were installed in Moscow. A few decades later, the Universal Postal Union was organized, which united two dozen countries.
During the Great Patriotic War, the military field mail was the link between military units, ships, subdivisions. The postal workers, along with the soldiers, had to take up arms so that the enemy would not get the valuable cargo, because this could cause enormous damage to the Soviet army. About 70 million letters to the Red Army were delivered by field mail per month. The most active correspondence was conducted between front-line soldiers and their relatives in the rear. It is worth remembering the well-known triangle letters from relatives and friends. They were written on an ordinary sheet of paper, which was folded in a triangle, first in one direction, then in the other, and the address was written on an empty space. The letters could not indicate in a single word the location of secret objects and other important information that would allow the enemy to learn military plans.
In the post-war period, the post office underwent qualitative changes. Its services became more diverse, the field of activity grew. Many businesses included post, telegraph and telephone.
Today, the responsibilities of postal departments include issuing pensions, paying utility bills, money transfers, and subscribing to various publications.
Given the role of the postal service for the state, in 1994 a decree was issued on the establishment of a professional holiday – the Day of Post.
Holiday traditions
This holiday is considered by all employees of the postal structure, regardless of position. These are postmen, warehouse workers, distribution centers, branch and transport workers.
Concerts and cultural events are organized for the heroes of the occasion. Not without a congratulatory word from the leadership. Those who have distinguished themselves are awarded certificates and letters of thanks, and awards are issued. Traditionally, on the eve of the celebration, professional competitions are held among the divisions. Feasts with a trip to nature are also welcome on this day, because it is not in vain that the holiday is celebrated on a summer weekend.
Interesting about mail in Our Country and the world
- In the Central Museum of Communications. AS Popov in St. Petersburg is the largest collection of stamps from all over the world.
- In the Pacific state of Vanuatu, there is an underwater post office. On the shore, you can buy a waterproof postcard and go down under the water, send it to the addressee.
- In Our Country in the last century, rockets were used to deliver letters, but this method was not widely used due to the high cost.
- The longest letter belonged to Elan Foreman. The Englishman expressed his deepest love to his wife in 1 words, which took about two years.
- The first mailboxes existed in the XNUMXth century and were used for denunciations.
- Many unusual postal bans can be found around the world. For example, in England you cannot send parcels with garbage, residents of Switzerland cannot send horoscopes by mail.
- Great Britain distinguished itself by the fact that until 1952 its inhabitants had the right to send people in a parcel.
- Until the XNUMXth century, the British used the death penalty for unauthorized opening of a bottle with a note thrown ashore. This privilege was only for the royal “openers”. In such notes, sailors often transmitted encrypted secret information.
- The artist V. Koval sent letters to his relatives, on the envelopes of which he did not stick stamps, but drew them. Moreover, his deception was never revealed, all letters were delivered to their destination.
- The Mir space station had its own post office.
- The first postage stamp was issued in Our Country in 1857.
- In 2015, in the Netherlands, in honor of Valentine’s Day, all letters were delivered that had kiss prints instead of stamps on the envelope.
- Collecting stamps is still considered one of the most popular hobbies in the world.