A bulletin d'expédition, sometimes known as a parcel card,[1] is a parcel despatch note. Bulletin d'expédition have been widely used across the world. They may travel with the parcel and be delivered at the same time, or they may indicate to the recipient that a parcel is ready to be collected from their local post office. The cards were introduced after the establishment of the international parcel service by the Universal Postal Union on 1 October 1881 (Great Britain, India, The Netherlands and Persia, 1 April 1882), following the Paris agreement of 1880.[2]
The service is covered in the United States Postal Service, International Mail Manual, at section 744, "Foreign Dispatch Notes".[3]
Bulletins d'expédition are to be distinguished from cards left by parcel delivery services, including the post office, where a parcel is unable to be delivered because there is nobody to accept it at the delivery address.
See also
References
- ↑ Parcel cards from and to Canada by David Handelman, c. 2011. Retrieved 30 July 2013. Archived here.
- ↑ "The Universal Postal Union: Its History and Progress. A paper read before the Leeds Philatelic Society by E. Egly, President, on December 19th, 1905." in The London Philatelist, Vol. XV, No. 169, January 1906, pp. 2-11.
- ↑ "Foreign Dispatch Notes" in International Mail Manual, 744, United States Postal Service, 2013. Retrieved 30 July 2013. Archived here.
External links
- Bulletin d'expédition and Bullettino di spedizione of Italy. Archived here.
- Les bulletins d'expédition de colis postaux (1870/1918). French language.
- The 1880 UPU Parcel Post Convention and Swedish Foreign Parcel Mail, 1881 - 1921 by Sören Andersson in The Posthorn, Scandinavian Collectors Club, May 2002. Archived here.