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concerned with the creation of an archive and a library for the then still autonomous directorate
General of Posts. Over the time span of a hundred years, this first archive and the library evolved into a central information office of the PTT, called „Bibliothek – Information – Dokumentation“ (BID). At times, the BID employed up to 30 employees.
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The archive takes an important intermediary function with the constant extension of its oral history project. With the interviews of former employees, the PTT-Archive can establish a reference with today's Swiss Post Ltd. and the
Swisscom Ltd. Depending on its resources, the PTT Archive realized up
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First and foremost, the PTT-Archive is responsible to secure public access to the holdings and to index them in an online database. The documents can be studied in the study room of the archive. Every year multiple visitors are being given a tour through the depot. At this occasion the visitors are
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Foundation for the History of the Post and Telecommunications, reached in 1998, the foundation is commissioned to manage the corporate archive of the former PTT, to develop the holdings appropriately and to make them available to the public. This means that the archived documents can
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Ltd. On behalf of these two public limited companies, the PTT Archive is being operated by the Swiss
Foundation for the History of the Post and Telecommunications. By obligation of Swiss archival law, the Swiss Post Ltd. and the Swisscom Ltd., being the successors of the PTT, are bound to preserve
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On April 30, 1893 the
Directorate General of Posts in Bern issued an “Instruktion betreffend die Ordnung des Archivs, die Anlage und Führung der Centralbibliothek und die Besorgung der Registratur der Expeditionskanzlei der Oberpostdirektion“ . This is the earliest known historical source that is
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of the holdings were to be stored at the same location. The archive and the library were henceforth constituting the “Historische
Archive und Bibliothek PTT” at Viktoriastrasse 21 in Bern. In 2013 the archive moved into its current premises at the Sägestrasse 77 in Köniz.
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The archive hosted intergenerational workshops for apprentices of the Swiss Post Ltd. on multiple occasions. In these workshops the apprentices engage with historical sources, in order to discuss their current work routine with former employees of the PTT.
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The holdings encompass documents concerning the organization and the management of the
Directorate General of Posts, the District Postal Services as well as the individual post offices. Furthermore, there are documents concerning various routes of the
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neither be transferred nor removed without the explicit consent of the federal archives. Since the year 2018 the
Historical Archive and Library PTT is known in an abbreviated form as PTT Archive.
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