Abstract: | 日本統治臺灣五十年間,所推展的統一度量衡、貨幣、現代化產業與交通事業等建設,對臺灣產生深遠影響,其中通信事業又與民眾日常活息息相關。郵政的創始、開展的歷程,也與臺灣社會、經濟的變遷關係密切。 根據以往學者的研究,大多認同臺灣的新式郵政起於清末劉銘傳所推動的「臺灣郵政局」,至1895年日本統治臺灣後,此一郵政遂為日人所帶來的郵政系統所取代。日治時期臺灣的郵政發展,統治初期為配合軍事需求,設立「野戰郵便局」,殆臺灣情勢穩定後,則於全臺改設普通郵便局。 隨著總督府對通信事業的經營及其統治的需要,臺灣郵政的營業項目,由郵件寄送、存款、劃撥、匯兌之業務,進而擴充至電報、電話、簡易保險等。促使日治時期的臺灣郵政,呈現多元化、殖民性與現代化的經營面向。綜觀日治時期的郵政事業,不論是郵件遞送、儲金的劃撥、匯兌,抑或存款、提款、保險之業務,其經營績效逐年成長,也為戰後臺灣郵政發展奠定基礎。 In the 50 years of Japanese rule, construction of the Japanese have a great impact on Taiwan such as unified length, weight, and volume, monetary policy, real modernization, communications and transportation enterprises and so on. Among them communications and transportation was correlated with people daily life. Start and development of postal service was also correlated closely with Taiwan society and economic development. Account to past researches, most scholars agreed with Taiwan postal service began with Taiwan Post formed by Liu Ming-chuan in Late Ch’ing Dynasty, until the Japanese ruled Taiwan in 1895, this mechanism replaced with the postal service system that Japanese brought. The development of Taiwan postal service in the early Japanese rule, the Japanese established Field Post Office as the result of military need, and replaced with General Post Office in each place as Taiwanese political situation was stable. Postal service items like savings, deliver, transfer, exchange, with communication operation and colonization of Taiwan by the Taiwan Governor Office is necessary, postal business items increased servral services like telegram and simple life insurance and so on. Overview of postal service under Japanese rule, no matter deliver, transfer, exchange, savings, drawing and insurance, the growth of its performance was also to establish the foundations of Taiwan postal service development. |