STAMPS12345 wrote:
"SAPHILATELICS ------Since your in the habit of correcting other posters .....so let me correct you ........you wrote "The Thurn and Taxis postal service was merged into the Prussian Postal Service "....thats incorrect because the T and T postal service extented across western europe and central europe and the Prussian system only took the Germany section .Not the other countries ."
If you are going to get into a historical debate with me, you should probably get in the habit of reading more broadly and in-depth.
To the historically literate, my post of Sep 21 18:15:09, by making reference to the Thurn and Taxis postal service as a "PRIVATE company", makes it clear that I am speaking of the T&T organization as it existed AFTER the loss of the imperial postal monopoly at the hands of Napoleon in 1806. At that time, T&T was (1) private and (2) limited in its area of influence ENTIRELY to German States (ok, so they maintained a cantonal post office in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, I will grant you that exception). When Prussia took over the postal service on July 1, 1867, in return for 3 million Thaler reparations, it did so in the entire remaining sphere of influence of Thurn and Taxis, which was entirely German. The "international" postal service you refer to ceased to exist in 1806 under Napoleon (some would argue as early as 1702 with the beginning of the Spanish wars of succession, when Taxis had to move their headquarters from Brussels to Frankfurt on the Main). Finally, in the context of postal services as "stamp-issuing entities", only a reference to the private company of T&T makes sense, as stamps were not issued prior to 1806.
Not to dignify your comment further, but I would rather be known for "correcting other posters" by providing accurate information than for spouting off unnuanced, poorly-phrased and ill-considered half-truths and generalities on subjects of which I clearly have no appreciable grasp whatsoever. Hmm, who does that remind me of? Nah, don't worry Paul, I am not talking about you, but rather a certain Texan whose last name could be (and, by the unsurpassed Molly Ivins, rest her soul, has been rather eloquently) synonimized with "shrub".
Back to the balcony to convalesce after appendectomy.
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NK YOU!!
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on Sep-30-07
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I'm a silly little man - whoopee!!
