The postal service of Hungary

A vintage cover with new stamps from Hungary ! 

The cover was sent by Christina , who had bought the cover from an old lady who had got it herself when she was very young !! So the cover must be surely more than 60 years old :) 

The stamps on the cover is based on the postal theme - featuring the postman hat, carriage , letterbox , postmen and Postcrossing stamp 

The HUF 10 stamp depicts a horse-drawn parcel delivery cart which served areas not covered by the railway network. In cities it collected letters and delivered parcels from the start but its use gradually declined until it was finally phased out (in Budapest in 1958).

The main motif of the HUF 30 stamp is a post box with an emptying mechanism, which was introduced in 1894 and significantly accelerated the collection of mail. These post boxes became such characteristic items of the Hungarian Post due to their red colour and distinctive shape with a tent roof and ridge decoration that similar post boxes are still in use today.

The HUF 200 stamp shows a cap of the uniform introduced for postal carriers. It was made of dark blue cloth and was modelled on the shako, the military cap of the Hungarian hussar. A golden button bearing the crown and post horn is linked by a metal thread braid to the rosette, which is also made of a metal thread and is decorated with the Hungarian royal crown. The metal control number sewn above the black peak served to identify deliverymen in the capital city and was in use until the Second World War.

The three stamps are part of the Hungary definitives of 2017 - on Postal History 

Designer :Barnabas baticz 

Production: Pàtria Nyomada Zrt

The 120 Ft stamp is part of a miniature sheet issued to comommerate the 150 years of Hungarian post depicting the various postal vehicles used through this period of time 

The stamp on our cover is the third stamp on the top row - depicts postmen setting off on their rounds by Csepel bicycle. The bicycle has been used as a mail transport vehicle, mainly by delivery workers, since the 1890s.

2018 - Postcrossing stamp 

Have already written in detail in this blog about this stamp including the postman , the bridge and monuments on this stamp :) 

A beautiful cover with different aspects of postal system in Hungary !