Austria Correspondence Card 1873

As you can see, there are two postmarks on the card. One is over the stamp and shows a date of April 5, 1873. The other is on the left upper corner and also shows the date of April 5. The written message on the reverse is dated April 4.

I am assuming that one was applied when the card went into the postal system and the second was applied at the receiving post office. Would this be a card delivered within the same city?

Anyone out there know how these cards were handled at that period of time?

Remember at this time it was the Austrian-Hungarian Empire and it covered a lot of ground. The origin, Neudorf bei Rakek is now Nova vas pri Rakeku. The destination Laibach is now known as Ljubljana. Both are in modern day Slovenia. It didn't travel that far thus the originating and receiving postmark occurred the same day. It was sent between towns. There might be a lower rate for postal cards within a town, but not sure.

I can't add any additional info that you're looking for but just want to say that it's a very nice card.

Austria was the first country to issue post cards in 1869.
The rate was 2 Kreuzer if no more than 20 words were on the card.
A regular letter was 5 Kr.

I think they were called Der Twitterkarten, but I'm not sure.

Seeing the Laibach address and mark reminds of the St Jakob Laibach cancel I posted in the Austro-Hungarian postmarks topic, which reminds me of the run up in all things Laibach on ebay a few years ago. I haven't looked lately, but I assume it must have cooled off by now.

A nice clean card.