Hírközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány, Évkönyv, 2006
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detail: letterboxes used by the Royal Hungarian Post Office, letterboxes in keeping with postal decrees, and pre-1945 letterboxes in the Postal Museum collection. She also presents the letterbox with a bottom that could be shifted aside mechanically, as designed by Korlát Búsfy in 1882, including the description in the patent, initial experimental use, and ways in which it was advanced. She also notes that the mechanical emptying procedure used in today’s letterboxes was initially designed in the late 19th century by Vendel Wlcek, a metalworker who lived in Graz, Austria. In conclusion, she discusses the collection of letterboxes in the Postal Museum, which also offers a historical perspective of the type of box the post office used to collect mail over the centuries. Ferenc Hernitz: The beginnings of postal services in Sopron In this study, based on intensive historical research, the author reviews the start of the postal institutions in the city of Sopron - on the Austrian border - covering the period between 1527 and 1776. Initially, Sopron had no organized postal institution and public administration, church, commercial, and private correspondence was handled by regular or ad hoc couriers. He describes the postal routes established in the 1550s and maintained by the Austrian nobility as well as historical events that affected mail deliveries, the establishment of the Royal Hungarian Post Office, which meant independent Hungarian postmasters, the operation of the facilities, remuneration for postal employees, and the tribulations of postal staff. He also describes the first postmaster dynasty of Sopron, the Greiner family, whose members began managing the postal station at Sopron in 1695 and continued to do so for three generations covering over 70 years. They were highly respected members of the community, active in public service. Even though the postal services of the city were established in wartime, throughout its history the Sopron post played a key role in protecting the country, in public administration, and in commerce. József Hajdú: Interview with sculptor Ferenc Trischler In recent years, the Communications Museum Foundation commissioned three sculptures which were unveiled in public places: a memorial to communication in the courtyard of the Postal Museum at Balatonszemes, a statue of Tivadar Puskás that stands in front of the Budapest headquarters of founder Magyar Telekom, and a statue of Péter Opris unveiled in Pécs. All three are the work of sculptor Ferenc Trischler. The author interviewed the sculptor who is highly respected by our foundation. He described his childhood, university studies, his teachers, his work, his exhibitions, commissions he has received, his hobbies, and life experiences that played key roles in the course of his career. He spoke of how he began his relationship with the Communications Museum Foundation in 2003 by winning a contest, the third sculpture of which was a bust of Péter Opris, the first post office director in Pécs, which was recently unveiled outside the main post office of that city. The square on which it stands was also named for Opris. At the end of the interview, readers are offered images of Trischer statues. András Bálint Kapi: Teaching opportunities within the Postal Museum Twenty-first century development is not limited to technology, for the signs of it appear in the lives of museums, too. Anyone who regularly visits museums will notice that information 224
