A postcard from On- Board , the steamboat in Leipzig posted through PostModern Dresden.
PostModern is one of the postal companies in Germany that issue their own, mainly self-adhesive stamps. PostModern also regularly issues special stamp editions accompanying regional events in Dresden and Saxony..
I had received a cover earlier with the stamp showing the panorama of Dresden across the Elbe river. The state of Saxony is a landlocked federal state of Germany, bordering the federal states of Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and its largest city is Leipzig.
Since 1999, the Media Logistics GmbH from Dresden as a local mail service provider in the greater Dresden area. The enterprise is a joint venture of the Dresdner pressure and publishing house GmbH & CO. KG and the Fiege logistics AG. The focus of business activities is on the distribution logistics for newspapers and postal services.
Since 2006, the private mail service of Media Logistik GmbH in Saxony has been operating under the PostModern brand. PostModern collects the mail from business customers, franks it and delivers it the next day. Private individuals can also use this service provider via their red mailboxes. The delivery of letters and parcels is possible for private individuals since 1 January 2011 throughout Germany. For business customers, it continues to be restricted to the ZIP codes 0 and 1 as well as 38, 39, 98 and 99. This covers almost the entire territory of the new Länder and Berlin. One of the cooperation partners is Ostsächsische Sparkasse Dresden, which sells stamps and mailboxes from PostModern are installed at their branches.
In fiscal 2012, Media Logistik GmbH employed 154 people, generated revenues of 43.8 million euros and a net income of 3.0 million euros
On July 8, 1836, King Frederick Augustus II of Saxony granted the newly founded company privilege for steamship transport in the Kingdom of Saxony. 180 years later, steamboat shipping in the Elbe Valley is still in full steam and PostModern Dresden honored the anniversary with a special stamp.
The other stamp depicts the Lighthouse of Moritzburg. The lighthouse in Moritzburg is an inland lighthouse in Saxony. The staffage building (Folly) was built in the late 18th century as part of a backdrop for trailing naval battles (Naumachie). It is the only lighthouse built in Germany for this purpose and at the same time one of the oldest internal lighthouses in the Federal Republic.
The historical background, however, was the Battle of the Dardanelles of 1770 between the fleet of Russian Tzarina Catharine the Great and the Turkish fleet, which ended in victory for the Russians over the »arch enemy«, which was honoured throughout Europe.When the sea battle was enacted, the two-masted frigate of the royal society, the pier as well as the so-called Dardanelles between the Great Lake and the Canal were armed with little canons which could fire fireworks-like ammunition.
Thanks Tom for this nice postcard showing the steamboat on Elbe - and the on-board postmark , the private post stamps and postmarks !
It is also interesting that the international Mail posted through PostModern Dresden is handled by PostNL ( Netherlands ) and you can find the meter cancellation of PostNL at the top !!
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