Editing Mail (section)

=== Thurn und Taxis ===
In 1505, [[Holy Roman Emperor]] [[Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor|Maximilian I]] established a postal system in the Empire, appointing Franz von Taxis to run it. This system, originally the ''[[Kaiserliche Reichspost]]'', is often considered the first modern postal service in the world, which initiated a revolution in communication in Europe.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Metzig |first1=Gregor |title=Kommunikation und Konfrontation: Diplomatie und Gesandtschaftswesen Kaiser Maximilians I. (1486–1519) |date=21 November 2016 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |isbn=978-3-11-045673-8 |pages=98, 99 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MiyXDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA98 |access-date=7 February 2022 |language=de}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Meinel |first1=Christoph |last2=Sack |first2=Harald |title=Digital Communication: Communication, Multimedia, Security |date=2014 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=9783642543319 |page=31 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5O25BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA31 |access-date=20 September 2021 |archive-date=26 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210926235052/https://books.google.com/books?id=5O25BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA31 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Pavlac |first1=Brian A. |last2=Lott |first2=Elizabeth S. |title=The Holy Roman Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia [2 volumes] |date=1 June 2019 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-4408-4856-8 |page=255 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=arSYDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA255 |access-date=7 February 2022 |language=en}}</ref> The system combined contemporary technical and organization means to create a stable transcontinental service which was also the first to offer (fee-based) public access.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Stollberg-Rilinger |first1=Barbara |title=The Holy Roman Empire: A Short History |date=11 May 2021 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-21731-4 |pages=46, 47 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w5IIEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA47 |access-date=24 February 2022 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Rossum |first1=Gerhard Dohrn-van |last2=Dohrn |first2=Gerhard |title=History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders |date=1996 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-15511-1 |page=336 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xYhlNoUu-toC&pg=PA336 |access-date=24 February 2022 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Fang |first1=Irving E. |title=Alphabet to Internet: Mediated Communication in Our Lives |date=2008 |publisher=Rada Press |isbn=978-1-933011-90-5 |page=2008 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O_PtAAAAMAAJ |access-date=14 March 2022 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Thurn and Taxis postal system European history Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Thurn-and-Taxis-postal-system |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref>
 The [[Thurn und Taxis]] family, then known as Tassis, had operated postal services between Italian city-states from 1290 onward. [[File:Anselm Franz von Thurn und Taxis.jpg|thumb|Postmaster [[Anselm Franz, 2nd Prince of Thurn and Taxis]] (1681–1739), still today part of the logo of the Whitepages in many countries]] For 500 years the postal business based in Brussels and in Frankfurt was passed from one generation to another. Following the abolition of the Empire in 1806, the [[Thurn-und-Taxis Post]] system continued as a private organization into the postage stamp era before being absorbed into the postal system of the new German Empire after 1871.[[File:Prince_Maximilian_Karl_von_Thurn_und_Taxis.jpg|thumb|Postmaster [[Maximilian Karl, 6th Prince of Thurn and Taxis]] (1802–1871), last Postmaster]] 1 July 1867, the State of Prussia had to make a compensation payment of 3.000.000 Thalers reinvested by [[Duchess Helene in Bavaria|Helene von Thurn & Taxis]], daughter-in-law of the last postmaster, [[Maximilian Karl, 6th Prince of Thurn and Taxis]], into real estate, most of it continuing to exist today.

The Phone Book of the World has its roots in the long history of the avant-garde telecommunications family Thurn & Taxis.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://pbof.com/thurn-taxis/#1986 |title=Thurn & Taxis pushing a comeback of Telecom activities in Paris, next to the last, still existing historic Postal mansion |access-date=2022-01-12 |archive-date=2021-02-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210227211940/http://pbof.com/thurn-taxis/#1986 |url-status=live }}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|date=April 2023|reason=Self referencing source|certain=|name=}} The directory is the result of [[Johannes von Thurn und Taxis|Johannes, 11th Prince of Thurn & Taxis]] transmitting PTT culture to a student and helping with the opening of a small Telephone Boutique next to a historic Postal mansion his ancestors used to go to centuries earlier.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://pbof.com/thurn-taxis/#1702 |title=The Paris Hotel de la Poste / VB mansion, connecting point of the Post in the Bourbon territories and operated by the Pajot & Rouille family and the Post in the Habsburg territories operated by the Thurn & Taxis family |access-date=2022-01-12 |archive-date=2021-02-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210227211940/http://pbof.com/thurn-taxis/#1702 |url-status=live }}</ref> {{Unreliable source?|date=April 2023|reason=Self referencing source|certain=|name=}}[[File:Johannes,_11th_Prince_of_Thurn_and_Taxis_(1981).jpg|thumb|[[Johannes von Thurn und Taxis|Johannes, 11th Prince of Thurn & Taxis]] (1926–1990), heir of the Postal fortune]] Several European post carriers like [[Deutsche Post]] or [[Austrian Post]] continue to use the Thurn & Taxis Post Horn in their company logo just like the global Phone Book of the World based in the old Postal mansion of King Louis XIV in Paris.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://pbof.com/ |title=Phone Book of the World using the Thurn & Taxis Posthorn in the company logo |access-date=2022-01-12 |archive-date=2021-10-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211017155535/https://pbof.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|date=April 2023|reason=Self referencing source|certain=|name=}}