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Emanuele Gabbini

PACCHI POSTALI
in Italia 1881-1914: una storia filatelica... e non solo

208 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2017
Italian text

PARCEL POST
in Italy 1881-1914: a philatelic history... and not only

The author has undertaken a study of the service basing himself on all the legislative and normative sources of the first 35 years of the service (1881-1914) gathering and analysing an enormous amount of official documents.

The volume contextualizes the historical situation that has determined the beginning of the service with the signature of the agreement of Paris of 1880; it clarifies what laws, regulations and instructions discipline the service both for inland and for abroad, for the Italian Offices abroad and for Italian Colonies; it explains the evolution of the various kinds of postal bulletins and their franking methods; it specifies the evolution of the services and of the rates for inland and for abroad (the rates for abroad are gathered in 35 pages and they had never been published before); it quantifies the service evolution with official statistical data of forwarding and it introduces a picture of the goods sent (275 millions of parcels, of which 26 to foreign countries, have been sent from Italy in the first 35 years of service, for a total transport of over one million of tons of goods); it presents interesting philatelic considerations, including the estimate of the existing material and the rarity of the various forwarding bulletins.

In the Appendix, the complete list of the paragraphs about "Postal Bulletins", pertaining to the service of parcels put into circulation from 1881 to 1914 and one "overview" with the colour reproduction of 64 postal bulletins particularly interesting with their relevant description.

CONTENTS

Introduction
Foreword
Sources

1. The Parcel Post Service
* 1881-1914: the historical context
* The international requirements and the origin of the service in Italy
* The Agreement of Paris of 1880 and its evolutions
* The corpus of laws and regulations about the Parcel Post Service
* Main rules of the service regarding especially the public
* Rules that discipline the service execution

2. The forwarding bulletins and their franking
* 1st October 1881 - 31 December 1883: paper bulletins, without value, not franked
* 1st January 1884 - 30 June 1884: paper bulletins, without value, franked with postage due stamps
* 1st July 1884 - 31 January 1888: thin card bulletins, without value, franked with parcel postage stamps
* 1st February 1888 - 31 December 1890: stamped postal paper bulletins, franked with postage stamps for parcels and normal
* 1st January 1891 - 30 June 1914: stamped postal paper bulletins, franked with normal postage stamps
* Preservation and destruction of forwarding bulletins

3. The service for inland
* Accessory services and rates

4. The service with Italian Colonies and the Italian Post Offices abroad
* Accessory services and rates

5. The service for abroad
* Accessory services and rates
* The peculiar case of the United States of America

6. The statistical data of parcel handling
* 1881 - 1887: starting period of the service
* 1888 - 1914: developing period of the service

7. Goods sent
* Goods for family use
* Goods for agriculture, trade and industry
* Colonial goods

8. Philatelic considerations
* Use of King Umberto postage stamps for parcels on forwarding stamped postal paper bulletins
* Use of 5 l. of King Umberto on forwarding bulletins
* Some urban myths
* Fakes and manipulated bulletins
* Possible collections of forwarding bulletins
* Existing material on the philatelic market
* Rarities of material

9. The paragraphs of Postal bulletins about the parcel service, 1881-1914