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Swiss Post

Last modified: 2025-11-01 by martin karner
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• About the Flag
• Development of the Logo since 1849

See also:

• Various Flags (Switzerland)
• Swiss Commercial Flags
• Switzerland

About the Flag

Here is flag of Swiss Post (or La Poste suisse or La Posta Svizzera or Die Schweizerische Post or La Posta Svizra), as seen as a row of banners at https://www.hightechcampus.com/facilities/swisspostsolutions [The photo isn't available anymore].
Tomislav Šipek, 14 August 2019

This is not exactly a logo on a bedsheet. And what do we call these things that blur the distinction between banners, bunting and billboards?

There are several reasons for questioning the authority and flaggishness of this item:

1. Swiss Post Solutions seems to be a subsidiary company of Swiss Post, and the website illustrating and hosting this "flag" is Dutch, not Swiss.
2. English is not one of the official languages of Switzerland.
3. There have been no sightings of this "flag" rendering the logo in any of the four official languages of Switzerland.
4. Switzerland is a very flag-conscious country, and strangely-shaped banners are almost always clear derivatives of official flags. In this instance, there appears to be no such flag.

T.F. Mills, 15 August 2019

These oblong flags are called in German "Knatterfahnen". We use this term also on our Swiss cantons' main pages, since there is no English equivalent (In English there is the descriptive term vertically hoisted flag).
Since 2009 the English name Swiss Post has been used on the international level. It is also used for the English version of the website.
Indeed these flags are very rarely seen (I only found two examples on a commercial flag site, see here [source] and here [source]), but this can be said of most commercial, institutional and political flags in Switzerland. I have never seen an "official" rectangle flag of the Swiss Post. Perhaps there never have been made such flags, because the logo is quasi omnipresent.
Martin Karner, 28 October 2025

Development of the Logo since 1849

(To read the captions click on the pictures)

1849–1920

1920–1928

1928–1930

1930–1932

1932–1937

1937–1941

1941–1982

1982–1994

1994–1999

1999–2001

2001–2009

2009–2014

2014–2023

2023– images located by Martin Karner (source)

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