News, such as a dead network has news.

Austria Post’s 150-year Rohrpost stamp is the live philatelic fact. Issued 11 February 2025, €3.50, designed by David Gruber, printed offset by Cartor in 130,000 copies. The official English text is the cleanest short history of Vienna’s network currently on a postal-administration letterhead. Full specifications: Vienna and post.at.

Prague remains the last preserved municipal system, and it is still not a public service. Flooded in August 2002, sold on from Telefónica O2, associated with Zdeněk Dražil’s restoration plans. Wikipedia’s 2017 “still closed” note has not been replaced by a reopening notice from Czech Post or the city. Tourist-reopening claims remain claims until a station logs a public carrier again.

The National Postal Museum canister is still the U.S. reference object — gift of Lamson Corporation, dated 1953, CC0 object record npm_0.269514.1, on exhibit. Captions on that object disagree on letter count and miles per hour.

pneumatictubes.info covers urban pneumatic post: Commons and museum images, Smithsonian/NPM statistics for New York, hospital systems as a separate living industry. No dropshipped canisters. Map posters are a coming-soon card, not inventory.