10/14/2024
Exhibition in honour of 150 years of the Universal Postal Union
In the PTT museum, the Post of Serbia marked the World Post Day with the themed exhibition "The Universal Postal Union - 150 years since its foundation" by the author Alma Koman.
Zoran Anđelković, acting director of the Post of Serbia, congratulated the World Post Day on October 9, as well as the anniversary of the Universal Postal Union. He emphasized that the Principality of Serbia was among the 22 founding countries of the Universal Postal Union, on October 9, 1874, in Bern.
"That is the best indication of how greater its reputation was in comparison to its formal independence and how Serbia kept up with the world in terms of technological progress. “Serbia got its first post office in 1840, and next year we will celebrate a big jubilee - 185 years of public postal traffic in Serbia," Anđelković said.
He added that the post office as an institution basically does not achieve only planetary connectivity and communication, reflected in the delivery of 350 billion postal items globally on an annual basis, but has been one of the drivers of scientific and technological development from the very beginning until today, playing an important social responsible role in times of various challenges.
„We are entering the Fifth Industrial Revolution and we want to follow and respond to dynamic changes, dominant e-commerce, AI technologies that we will implement in logistics and processing procedures. This will be the topic of the General Assembly of Post-Europe and Business Forum, attended by 120 representatives of postal administrations and 30 general managers, in Belgrade next week, 16-17 October, which we are hosting," Anđelković said.
The curator of the PTT museum Alma Koman pointed out that the Universal Postal Union is the first universal cosmopolitan organization. "On 9 October 1874, the Copernican revolution took place. The international postal exchange of shipments, a tangle of complicated fees, the calculation of which required voluminous books of several hundred pages, were then out of use, and replaced by tariff calculations consisting of several lines," Koman said. Koman invited visitors to visit the exhibition until 30 November, where they can see the original Founding Charter of the UPU from 1874 with the signature of our delegate Mladen Ž. Radojković, an insight into the biography and achievements of this famous Serb, group portraits of delegates from meetings of the Association from different periods, as well as philatelic materials, such as artistic designs for postage stamps with the UPU theme that are now being presented to the public for the first time, and other interesting exhibits.