It is reported that in the first year of the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty (1 BC), Su Wu, the ambassador of the Han Dynasty, was detained by Khan, the Xiongnu monarch. He refused to submit, so Khan exiled him to no man's land in Beihai (now Lake Baikal) to shepherd sheep. Nineteen years later, Emperor Hanzhao succeeded to the throne, and Han and Hungary reconciled and got married. The envoys of the Han Dynasty came to Hungary to ask for Su Wu's return, but Khan refused, but he couldn't say it, so he lied that Su Wu was dead. Later, Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty sent envoys to Xiongnu, and Chang Hui, the detained deputy envoy who sent envoys to Xiongnu together with Su Wu, secretly met with the envoy of the Han Dynasty one night with the help of the jailer, told the envoy of the Han Dynasty about Su Wu, and came up with a plan to let the envoy of the Han Dynasty tell Khan: "When the emperor of the Han Dynasty was hunting in Shanglinyuan, he shot a wild goose with a letter written on silk tied to his foot, which said that Su Wu was not dead. Han was very happy after hearing this, so he blamed Khan according to Chang Hui's words. Khan was greatly surprised after hearing this, but he couldn't deny it, so he had to put Su Wu back. Su Wu is therefore known as the most virtuous diplomat in China's history, and "The Legend of the Wild Goose" was once praised as a beautiful talk, and this virtual wild goose has since become the embryonic form of the symbol of China Post's fluttering wings

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The ancient and modern story of transmitting information

The beacon tower was set up in China in order to transmit military information. The beacon tower burns wolf dung during the day and lights firewood at night. Legend has it that when burning wolf dung, there is a lot of smoke going straight into the blue sky, which is easier to be found than the fire during the day, so the bonfire is sometimes called wolf smoke. When the enemy was found, a bonfire was lit, which was passed down from Taiwan to Taiwan and spread to the military camp. More than 2,7 years ago, the bonfire warning system in China during the Zhou Dynasty was very complete.

The marathon is to tell the news

In ancient times, when transportation and communication were underdeveloped, people had to rely on two legs or ride horses to transmit information. The marathon was set up to commemorate a hero who died more than 2, years ago to deliver good news. In 49 BC, the Greek army repelled the invasion of Darius I, king of Persia, in Marathon Plain. The messenger Fidel Pitts ran from Marathon to Athens in one breath to report the good news. When he ran 42.195 kilometers, he rushed to Athens Square and finished the good news. He was exhausted and fell to the ground and died. In order to commemorate this soldier's heroic deeds, in 1896, at the first Olympic Games in the world, the distance he ran was included in the sports meeting as a long-distance race.

using a post to transmit information

The invention of characters promoted people's communication, and communication began from then on. As far back as the Zhou Dynasty, China set up a special post station to deliver official documents, and passed the documents from post station to post station by horse riding, at the same time, a relatively complete post system was established to achieve fast and accurate communication. After the Qin dynasty unified the six countries, the information transmission system of the post station was determined as the administrative organization of the country. Post is to transmit information at a speed of about 15 kilometers per hour, so as to realize long-distance communication. At that time, it was already very fast.

homing pigeons and monkeys

In order to transmit information, people in ancient times also came up with many strange methods, such as drift bottles, signal trees, homing pigeons and monkeys, and so on.

In Bekasa, Nigeria, people use monkeys to deliver letters. People keep the mother monkey and the son monkey in two places respectively, and often take the mother monkey to find the son monkey, so that the mother monkey can know the route. When people need to communicate, they put the letter in a bamboo tube and tie it to the mother monkey, and let it go out to look for the baby monkey. The mother monkey can always send the letter to the destination.

carrier pigeons have been an effective information transmission tool since ancient times. In today's highly developed communication technology, homing pigeons still have their place. In war, communication is crucial. However, once a nuclear war breaks out, the strong electromagnetic radiation generated by the nuclear explosion will paralyze all kinds of existing electronic communication systems, but homing pigeons can still fly freely. The Swiss army trained and cultivated homing pigeons that can throw books in two directions. These homing pigeons no longer transmit traditional letters, but carry computer chips in capsules, and the password information in them can only be read on special devices, which is extremely confidential. Carrier pigeons may even become special signalmen.

The emergence of post offices

It is generally believed that the post office was founded by cyrus the great, king of Persia. Ju Lushi ruled a vast empire, and the delivery of letters and information by messengers could no longer meet the needs of the empire. To this end, he established a postal administrative department composed of many post stations, which was the earliest post office. These stations are separated by a certain distance and are responsible for taking care of the post horses that run one stop every day.

China had a postal system a long time ago, and it was basically perfect in the Tang Dynasty. The Yuan Dynasty also rectified the system of relay stations connecting the East and the West.

in 31 BC, during the reign of Augustus, the Romans modeled themselves on this institution and established a public post office. The station is equipped with post horses fed with forage and guest rooms for past officials.

In the Middle Ages, Romanesque post offices disappeared, and monasteries spread all over Europe. Communication between monasteries is carried out through the use of parchment scrolls called "sacrificial caskets". The first monastery wrote their rumors on the paper roll, and when they arrived at the monasteries, they added their rumors, which made the paper roll longer and longer. For example, the paper roll conveying the death of the abbot of St. Willows is 9.5 meters long and .25 meters wide. People call it the friar post office.

Qing Post Office was founded in Tongzhi period of Qing Dynasty (1862-1875), and it was one of the thirteen major postal stations in Shanghai in Qing Dynasty. It has gone through different stages, such as private letter bureau-foreign post office-newspaper bureau-customs post-Daqing post. At present, it is the only surviving post office site of Qing Dynasty in East China, and it is also the epitome of modern China post history.

In p>1878 (the fourth year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty), Yantai "Huayang Letters Library" set up a branch in Zhoucun, which was the predecessor of the Qing postal organization in Zibo. At the end of 19, Zhoucun Daqing Post Office was opened. In 192, Boshan Second-class Daqing Post Office was established, with two agencies in Badou and Xiye Street, and five letter counters, including two village messengers, two messengers in Yishui and Wangzhuang, and four messengers in Laiwu and Tai 'an. In 194, a postal agency was set up in Guang Shun, Xiguan, Linzi and Health Hall pharmacies. In the following year, Huantai set up a third-class post office and branch offices in Zhangdian and Suozhen. Zhangdian Daqing Post Sub-bureau is located in Dongsi Street, the former Zhangdian Street, and handles letters and exchange business for merchants. Shizhoucun, Zichuan, Xincheng (Huantai) Suozhen, Zhangdian and other bureaus are under the General Administration of Jinan, while Boshan, Linzi, Jinling and Zihe are under the General Administration of Qingzhou.

After the Revolution of 1911, "Qing Post Office" was renamed "Zhonghua Post Office". There are four levels in the post office: postal clerk, postal assistant, postman and bureau clerk. The original Zhangdian Daqing Post Office moved to Nanbei Street.

In January, 1919, Linzi Zhonghua Post Office was established in Linzi City. It started as a third-class post office, and was upgraded to a second-class post office in October of the following year. In the countryside, there were four counters for Xindian, Zihedian, Sunloudian and Xiguan. In August 192, Huantai County Post Office (third-class bureau), Zhangdian Post Office (third-class bureau, later promoted to second-class), Zhoucun Post Office (second-class bureau) and Boshan Post Office (second-class bureau) were established. Huantai county post office has letter cabinets in Beishiqiao and Caocun Shantou Bridge, which are handled by merchants.

In p>1921, Boshan Post Office added two postmen to patrol outside villages and towns, which were divided into two roads, North and South, and toured for one week on the 3rd. There are letter cabinets in Xihe, Yuanquan, Badou, xia zhuang and Xingjiazhuang.

In p>1924, Zhangdian Zhonghua Post Office was changed into a second-class second-class bureau, renting three private houses and dealing in money orders, insured letters and ordinary letters. Nanding also has a post office.

In p>1926, Zhangdian Post Office was moved to the original Zhangdian Second Road (now West First Road), and parcel post and other services were added. At the same time, mailboxes are set up in Fushengli and Weigu, and mailing agencies are set up in Ma Shang and Weigu respectively to handle small remittance business.

in p>1931, Xindian branch cabinet was upgraded to Xindian post office.

In p>1943, Tieshan, Weigu and Shiqiao set up postal agencies, which were later changed to post offices to handle small-sum remittance business.

In p>1945, Zhangdian and Nanding were both second-class and second-class post offices. Zhangdian post office is equipped with 1 director, 2 postal workers, 3 messengers and 4 coolies. Changcheng and Ma Shang also have postal agencies.

In March p>1948, the whole territory of Zibo was liberated, and "Zhonghua Post Office" was taken over by wartime post offices. Until today's network communication, e-mail.

The earliest envelopes

Before the birth of envelopes, people were very worried about keeping letters secret. In order to send a letter, the ancient Greeks shaved the slave's hair first, wrote a letter on his scalp, and then sent the letter after the hair grew. The recipient can read the contents of the letter by shaving the slave's hair. In the 1th century BC, the Assyrians in Mesopotamia used clay boards as writing paper, engraved the contents of the letter, and then put them into pottery to burn. The receiver had to break the pottery to know the contents of the letter.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, Warring States Period and Qin and Han Dynasties in China, the common letters were wooden slips. Wooden slips are generally 1 foot long and about .33 meters long, so they are also called foot slips. The envelope is made of wooden board, which is carp-shaped, with one bottom and one cover clamped on the outside of the letter. The wooden board is engraved with three wire slots, tied with rope for three times, and then tied through a square hole, and the wood is inspected at the line end or intersection, sealed with clay and stamped with a seal as a letter inspection to prevent unauthorized disassembly. This kind of wooden board can be regarded as the earliest envelope in the history of China.

after China wax was introduced into Europe, sealing lacquer became a magic weapon for communication secrecy. In 182, when British bookseller Brewer was on vacation at the seaside, he found that many ladies and ladies were keen on writing letters, but they were afraid that the contents of the letters would be known, so he designed a number of envelopes. This is the first batch of paper commodity envelopes in the world. In 1844, the first machine for pasting envelopes appeared in London. Since then, paper envelopes have become popular all over the world.

postmark on the envelope

Nowadays, the main purpose of postmark is to cancel stamps. However, the postmark came out more than 4 years before stamps. In the 153 s, the post office in Venice, Italy, first used postmarks. At that time, it was just a small stamp on the mail, indicating the place name where the mail was received and sent. Since then, there has been a postmark of postage paid, but there is no specific date.

In p>1661, Bishop, the director of the British General Post Office, created the world's first postmark with a date in order to check and assess whether the postman delivered the mail in time, which made the postmark perfect and has been in use ever since. This postmark is 179 years earlier than the first stamp in the world.

In p>1879, the Qing government in China opened the Qing Post Office, using the gossip postmark. The gossip postmark only indicates the place name, not the date. Later, the postmark was gradually marked with the date. However, the date on the postmark is quite special. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the AD date was adopted uniformly.

since the 2th century, there have been more and more kinds of postmarks, including datestamp, postage prepaid postmark, free military postmark, tourist attraction commemorative postmark and so on.

The earliest penny stamp

In 1365, before Bishop invented the datestamp, the Paris Post Office of France, inspired by the postmark, printed a special piece of paper to deal with the increasing backlog of letters due to refusal to pay postage. There is no pattern on the paper, only words are printed. This small piece of paper with postage prepaid stamp is the earliest stamp.

Irish James chalmers printed the world's earliest stamps in 1834, and it was implemented after Sir rowland hill, the British postmaster, reformed the postal service in 1838. Hill stipulated that the national postage standard should charge a penny for half an ounce and issued a penny stamp.

punching holes in stamps

In p>1847, Henry Arthur, an Englishman, invented the first stamp cutting device. At first, this equipment could only cut stamps. A year later, the inventor improved the machine and made a punch that could punch a row of small holes. In 1854, the first perforated stamp punch was born.

Mailbox

Around p>165, there was a post office in Paris, which was responsible for correspondence and postal services with other provinces and foreign countries, but the residents in Paris could not communicate with each other. For this reason, in 1653, Derville, a Frenchman, hung some boxes for putting letters on the wall at the corner of the main street as mailboxes for the first time, which made up for this defect. Residents living in the city can put the letter into the mailbox nearby as long as they stick the postage-paid bill on the envelope, and the post office staff will open the box three times a day to collect it.

In p>1692, there were 6 such mailboxes in Paris, 7 in 1723, 12 in 174 and more than 5 in 178.

Postcards

In p>1861, John Charlton of the United States invented postcards in Philadelphia. Later, a businessman named Harry Lipman decorated the design of the postcard, issued it publicly and applied for a patent. Postcards with prepaid postage need not be stamped. This postcard was first invented by Emmanuel Herman of Ishtat Military Academy in Vienna, Austria. On October 1, 1869, prepaid postcards were first issued in the world, with a light yellow surface and a stamp with a face value of 2 kleiser attached. Postcards can express greetings, congratulations, apologies, etc. to relatives and friends, which cannot be replaced by other means of communication. Therefore, they are still widely used today, with more and more types, and the decoration is more and more artistic, bringing people a kind of beautiful enjoyment. Such as birthday cards, student cards, wedding cards and so on. Today, postcards have become a part of people's lives.

Special colors of postal services

The special colors of postal services all over the world are set according to their own traditions and habits. For example, Britain uses red, the United States uses gray, and China uses green.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, at the first national postal conference held in December 1949, the issue of special colors for postal services was discussed. It was considered that green symbolizes peace, youth and prosperity, so a resolution was made to stipulate that people's postal services should adopt green as special colors.

How is international mail delivered

There are about 654, post offices around the world, and international mail reaches 1 billion copies every day. Millions of postal workers in the 169 member countries of the World Postal Union are serving the delivery work. So how is international mail delivered? For example, a person who works in Pisriver, Alberta, Canada, wrote to a friend who lives near Nice in southern France on Monday. The postman collected the mail that afternoon and sent it to the post office in the town. Postal personnel separate local mail from mail sent to other parts of Canada, and divide international mail into two categories: west of the Pacific Ocean and east of the Pacific Ocean. At night, the mail is loaded on trucks and transported to Prairie City, 16 kilometers away. The next morning, two kinds of international mail were loaded on trucks and transported to Edmonton, the provincial capital, 48 kilometers away, and transported from Edmonton Post Office to the airport. At the airport, westbound mail is airlifted to Vancouver and eastbound mail is transported to Toronto. After the mail arrives in Toronto, it is classified according to the destination country, and this process will not be completed until Thursday. On Thursday evening, the international flight flew from Toronto to Paris and arrived on Friday morning.

In Paris, mail is handled by a mechanized system. The encoder adds a bar code according to the postal code to indicate where the letter is finally delivered. Another machine sorts letters one by one by administrative district. Letters are sent to the pouch along the conveyor belt, and the pouch is sent to Marseille and Nice by trucks, trains and planes. The postman in Nice sorts the letters, delivers them to the post office on Saturday morning, and the postman delivers them to his friend's home.

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