Postal Decrees affecting the Viennese Pneumatic Mail

(Well, some of them)

Many of these Postordnungs are huge files (eg 26Mb) largely because they are made available [on the invaluable ALEX site ] as page images of Fraktur, not as text. The sections-98 have been extracted for convenience. [Your browser may ask for permission to open PDF files]

• 1883RGB179 Post Office take-over of Telegraphs



• 1895RGB076 Nationalisation of Vienna Private Telegraph Co



• 1906RGB251 New inland Posttaxordnung



• 1911RGB127 Handling of underfranked Rohrpost



• 1916RGB317 The 1916 issue of the fundamental Postal Decree, coming into effect on 1 October; it is 82 pages long!



• 1916RGB317-98 Section 98 of the 1916 Decree, which deals with Rohrpost



• 1919SGB496 P&T split into separate Posts and Telegraphs



• 1922BGB406 The 1922 Postordnung ...



• 1922BGB406-98 and its Rohrpost section



• 1925BGB228 Letters to railway stations; registration



• 1925PTVOB050 Changes to Rohrpost rates; introduction of registration



• 1926BGB329 The 1926 Postordnung ...



• 1926BGB329-98 and its Rohrpost section



• 1929BGB404 Express and Pneumatic handling merged