This article sets out why and how plans to build Europe on mail, both commercially (rates) and symbolically (stamps), were discussed from the end of the 1920s and have failed up to today. The European Conference of Postal and Telecommunication Administrations (CEPT) was created during the intense phase of European integration in the 1950s. In the 1980s it was a key resource for the European Commission for building a Single Market in the telecommunication sector. As this article argues, however, the CEPT did not emerge from the multiple plans for postal integration. Rather, it was a new envelope hiding governance practices inherited from the nineteenth century.

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包围欧洲：邮政管理的计划和实践，1929-1959

本文阐述了从 1920 年代末开始讨论在商业（费率）和象征性（邮票）上建立欧洲邮件的计划的原因和方式，但直到今天都失败了。欧洲邮政和电信管理局会议 (CEPT) 成立于 1950 年代欧洲一体化的紧张阶段。在 1980 年代，它是欧盟委员会在电信领域建立单一市场的关键资源。然而，正如本文所主张的，CEPT 并不是从邮政一体化的多个计划中产生的。相反，它是一种从 19 世纪继承而来的新的信封隐藏治理实践。