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Day of the Stamp 1987
The commemorative stamp shows a mid-section of an achromatic lithograph by Carl Schuster taken from the year 1841. The original, a print of which can be found in Vienna's Postal Museum, is oval-shaped and framed with pictorial representations of ancient and contemporary means of transportation. The picture itself bears the inscription "Der Postmeister" ("The Postmaster") on the lower part. Almost exclusively letters passed between the hands of the forerunners of today's postal administration. This was back in the days when the first postal pioneers in the Habsburg empire engaged people in their service. In doing so they sought to maintain postal depots in certain towns, enabling incoming deliveries to be forwarded to the next depot. After parcel delivery service, regular passenger transportation was first put into operation in the 18th century. Great responsibilities for the state arose from the postal system's nationalization under Emperor Karl VI in July of 1722. Empress Marie Theresa supplemented classical letter delivery service with parcel service and in 1749 with passenger service. Postal routes were to be established on the main thoroughfares. In the course of these innovations a journey from Vienna to Prague took place for the first time on July 1, 1749.
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