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History of portuguese

On the right of the pioneers of the mailboxinsisted the Portuguese. In their opinion, this unpretentious subject is more than five hundred years old. In 1500, the Portuguese traveler Bartholomew Dias fell into a brutal sea storm off the coast of South Africa, in which most of his crew and the captain himself were killed. The survivors decided to return home to Portugal, but before departure they described all their misadventures in a letter that they put in an old shoe and hung on a tree. So they tried to tell the descendants about their fate, in the event of the death of the entire expedition. A year later, João da Nova, the captain of the vessel sailing to India, came to the South African shore and found this message in the shoe. In honor of the dead sailors, he built a chapel in this place, and later the settlement also grew there. For a long time the old shoe "worked" with a mail box, and now in its place is installed a huge shoe-monument made of stone.

History Italian

Did not remain indifferent to the mailboxes andthe Italians. According to historians in Florence at the very beginning of the XVI century mail boxes were installed from the tree, which they called "tambouri". They were placed in places of congestion of people - in squares and at the main church temples. Tambours had a gap in the upper part, where it was imperceptible for others to lower an anonymous denunciation of the enemies of the state. It is said that it was this idea that suggested the methods of collecting private letters of the French Count Renoir de Vilaye.

History of French

According to one source, the first French postalThe box became public for more than 360 years, as evidenced by the notes in the old papers of the city's post office in Paris. On the orders of Louis XIV from 1653, a city post was created, the management of which was entrusted to Count Jean Renoir de Vilaye. In those days, the only city post was leased a small room on St. Jacques Street, where everyone could send a letter, after paying the postage. The small size of the post office could hardly accommodate all comers, and the count decided to install additional mailboxes where he could put letters. In order for the letter to reach the addressee, it was necessary to pre-pay a single tariff. Especially for this purpose, postal labels or a "ribbon-shaped parcel" were issued, on which the date of payment of the postage was indicated. To buy such a label was possible not only from a postal official at the royal court, but also in monasteries, from doormen, etc. These labels were attached to the letter so that the postal worker could easily separate them, leaving a kind of postal receipt for the report.