Job title
Pul Muhafizligi
Group of job titles: Postal service and dispatch
3 officials held the job title Pul Muhafizligi. Its 23 annual entries run from 1880 to 1907 (AH 1298 to 1324). The median of the 23 recorded monthly salaries is 2,000 kuruş, against 500 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 1 place, Istanbul.
- Officials
- 3
- Years on recordAH 1298 to 1324, 21 years with an entry
- 1880 to 1907
- Median monthly salaryfrom 23 recorded salaries
- 2,000 kuruş
- Places with officials
- 1
Profile of the group: Postal service and dispatch
No source read describes Pul Muhafizligi by itself, so this is the profile of its group of job titles.
The public post of the Ottoman state, founded with the Ministry of Post in 1840 and joined with the telegraph in 1871. Post offices took in, carried and delivered letters, printed matter, registered letters and valuables.
Tools and technology
- the old overland roads, steamers of the state and of foreign companies, and later the railways
- postage stamps from 1862
History
Before 1840 official messages were carried by couriers between relay stations (menzil) kept by local contracted postmasters (menzilci); the relay system ended when the post was organised in 1839 and 1840. The empire joined the Universal Postal Union in 1874. The postal guides list 1,033 post and telegraph offices in 1884 and 1,288 in 1892.
Sources
- Halaçoğlu, Yusuf (2004). Menzil (Osmanlı). TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, vol. 29, 159-161. Online copy (read 14 October 2026).Pages or part: 159-161. Used for: history.
- Koh, Choon Hwee (2021). The Ottoman postmaster: contractors, communication and early modern state formation. Past and Present 251, 113-152. Online copy.Pages or part: 113, 118-120. Used for: history.
- Okan, Ayşegül (2003). The Ottoman postal and telegraph services in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. MA thesis, Boğaziçi University, Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History.Pages or part: iii, 20-25, 66, 77. Used for: summary, tools and technology, history.
- The school and the office: training, entry and pay in the Ottoman Post and Telegraph service, 1870-1905. Working paper, 2026 (the paper behind this collection; its Section II reports Akyıldız 2024, Ata 2022 and Ayhan and Maviş 1994).Pages or part: Section II. Used for: summary.
Monthly salary each year
The same numbers as a table
| Year | Recorded salaries | Median | Mean | Lower quartile | Upper quartile | Median of the whole collection |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1880/81 | 1 | 2,000 | 2,000 | 2,000 | 2,000 | 500 |
| 1881/82 | 1 | 2,000 | 2,000 | 2,000 | 2,000 | 500 |
| 1882/83 | 1 | 2,000 | 2,000 | 2,000 | 2,000 | 500 |
| 1883/84 | 1 | 2,000 | 2,000 | 2,000 | 2,000 | 500 |
| 1884/85 | 1 | 2,000 | 2,000 | 2,000 | 2,000 | 500 |
| 1885/86 | 1 | 2,000 | 2,000 | 2,000 | 2,000 | 500 |
| 1886/87 | 1 | 2,000 | 2,000 | 2,000 | 2,000 | 500 |
| 1887/88 | 1 | 2,000 | 2,000 | 2,000 | 2,000 | 500 |
| 1894/95 | 1 | 2,000 | 2,000 | 2,000 | 2,000 | 500 |
| 1895/96 | 1 | 2,000 | 2,000 | 2,000 | 2,000 | 500 |
| 1896/97 | 1 | 2,025 | 2,025 | 2,025 | 2,025 | 500 |
| 1897/98 | 1 | 2,025 | 2,025 | 2,025 | 2,025 | 500 |
| 1898/99 | 1 | 2,150 | 2,150 | 2,150 | 2,150 | 500 |
| 1899/1900 | 1 | 2,500 | 2,500 | 2,500 | 2,500 | 500 |
| 1900/01 | 1 | 2,500 | 2,500 | 2,500 | 2,500 | 500 |
| 1901/02 | 2 | 1,800 | 1,800 | 1,450 | 2,150 | 500 |
| 1902/03 | 2 | 1,800 | 1,800 | 1,450 | 2,150 | 500 |
| 1903/04 | 1 | 1,300 | 1,300 | 1,300 | 1,300 | 475 |
| 1904/05 | 1 | 1,300 | 1,300 | 1,300 | 1,300 | 450 |
| 1905/06 | 1 | 1,400 | 1,400 | 1,400 | 1,400 | 475 |
| 1906/07 | 1 | 1,400 | 1,400 | 1,400 | 1,400 | 450 |
Salaries are nominal monthly amounts in kuruş, as assigned. The thick line is the median of each year and the thin line the mean. A year with fewer than 5 recorded salaries is drawn as an open mark and is not joined to the line.
Places
| Place | Province | Officials | Annual entries | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Istanbul (Dersaadet) | Istanbul (Dersaadet) province | 3 | 23 | 1880 to 1907 |
Ottoman officials recorded
3 officials, the one with most annual entries first.
| Official | Years | Annual entries | Kuruş a month | Birthplace |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mehmet Şükrü Efendi | 1894 to 1903 | 9 | 2,000 to 2,500 | Harput |
| Bekir Efendi | 1880 to 1888 | 8 | 2,000 | Istanbul (Dersaadet) |
| Ali Fethi Bey | 1901 to 1907 | 6 | 1,100 to 1,400 | Istanbul (Dersaadet) |
Years run from the first to the last annual entry. An official without a recorded name is listed after the named officials.
How to read these records: years and calendars, what first recorded means, gaps between annual entries, and salaries.
Subjects
- Pul Muhafizligi
- Ottoman job titles (Osmanlı memuriyet unvanları)
- Labour history (emek tarihi)
- Salaries of officials (memur maaşları)
- Ottoman history (Osmanlı tarihi)
- Ottoman bureaucracy (Osmanlı bürokrasisi)
- Ottoman officials (Osmanlı'da memurlar)
- Ottoman personnel registers (Sicill-i Ahvâl defterleri)
- Ottoman registers (Osmanlı defterleri)