!!!Postkarte

Postcard, an Austrian invention. E.  Herrmann suggested the idea of an 
open card with the dimensions of a letter for short messages with a 
printed stamp on it on January 26%%sup th/% , 1869 in the 
"Neue Freie Presse" (an Austrian daily newspaper). It was 
introduced by the Postal Service Administration on 
October 1%%sup st/% , 1869: a white card with the dimensions 
16 x 8,6 cm, a printed yellow 2-Kreuzer-stamp and 
"Correspondenz-Karte" written on it. Very soon most of the 
European states and the U.S. had taken over this idea.


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