Private posts of Germany

Postcard No. 1 

A postcard from Germany 🇩🇪 via Saariva post 

Saarriva is - as the name implies - a Saarland-based company based in Saarbrücken and a subsidiary of Saarbrücker Zeitung and Postcon, a business postal service provider from NRW (formerly TNT Post). The main delivery area is in the Saarland, but also in many other regions, post can be sent via Saarriva. The way there and the delivery is then again taken over by cooperation partners as in this case , the postcard has been sent by airmail to India by Deutsche Post ( with a meter cancellation on the top ) 

250 years of Saarbrücker Zeitung 

Date of issue : 02-05-2011

The Saarbrücker Zeitung (SZ) is a daily (except Sundays) newspaper published in Saarland, Germany. It was first published as a weekly journal in 1761 under the title Nassau-Saarbrückisches Wochenblatt (Nassau-Saarbrücken Weekly). After several changes in name and frequency, it appeared since 1861 under its current title. After the Saar Treaty in 1956, the Saarland state became its owner. It was privatized in 1969; the paper's major owner (56.1%) is the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.

On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the Saarbrücker Zeitung, saarriva launched its 3rd saarriva stamp collection with the name "250 Jahre Saarbrücker Zeitung" with its first day 02.05.2011. The motifs, all from the field of newspaper production, take the viewer on a breathtaking journey through the history of newspaper printing.

Postcard No. 2 

A postcard from Germany via CityMail Regensburg post ! 

The Deutsche Post has applied labels over the CityMail stamps and postmark when they sent the postcard via their system overseas ! So I deceived to carefully peel the label and look at the postmark ( I am not sure if it’s a good philatelic practice though ) 

CityMail Regensburg is a private mail service operating in Southern Germany- Bavaria.  Founded in 1999, the company has been a wholly owned subsidiary of M Das Medienhaus since 2002. More than 120 employees process about 30 million shipments per year, mainly from business customers in the region such as public authorities, companies from SMEs to corporations or healthcare organizations.

1175 years of City Roding 

Roding is a town in the district of Cham, in Bavaria, Germany, near the Czech border.

The postcard has been sent by airmail to India by Deutsche Post ( with a meter cancellation on the top ) 

I had earlier received a postcard via PostModern post of Dresden , Saxony -which uses Post NL for their international mail service ! http://travellingenvelopes.blogspot.com/2019/03/postmodern-dresden.html?m=0

A postcard from Germany via Nordbrief Kiel post ! 

Thanks Tom for these very interesting postcards showing an important aspect of German Postal system !!