Enter our three anniversary competitions!
Win prizes worth a total of 20,000 francs
The three-tone horn on postbuses is 100 years old. We want to celebrate this in 2024 – together with you! Enter one of the three exciting competitions: Competition 1 “Do the Du-Da-Do” in four categories for adults, Competition 2 The “Posthorn-Challenge” events at various locations in Switzerland, Competition 3 “Children’s Colouring Competition”.
Would you like to participate? Then send us your creation by 18 August 2024!
Competition 1: “Do the Du-Da-Do”
Four categories for expressing your creativity around the three-tone horn
Description: Your creative performance can combine singing and or dancing, and the post horn must be visually or audibly recognizable.
Specifications: The post horn must be visually or audibly recognizable.
Size specifications: Maximum file size 50 MB
– PDF for texts
– JPG, PEG and PNG for images
– MP4 and AVI for videos
– MP3 and WAV for audio files
– For file sizes greater than 50 MB, please either use a file hosting service (e.g. WeTransfer) or upload your entry to a social media platform (e.g. YouTube) and send us the relevant link.
Conditions: Minimum age 16. One entry per person/group per category. Detailed conditions of participation.
Description: The entry is in the form of a photo or video, and audibly and/or visually refers to the post horn.
Specifications: The post horn must be audibly or visually recognizable.
Size specifications: Maximum file size 50 MB
– PDF for texts
– JPG, PEG and PNG for images
– MP4 and AVI for videos
– MP3 and WAV for audio files
– For file sizes greater than 50 MB, please either use a file hosting service (e.g. WeTransfer) or upload your entry to a social media platform (e.g. YouTube) and send us the relevant link.
Conditions: Minimum age 16. One entry per person/group per category. Detailed conditions of participation.
Description: Your text is about the post horn.
Specifications: The post horn is recognizable or named.
Size specifications: Maximum file size 50 MB
– PDF for texts
– JPG, PEG and PNG for images
– MP4 and AVI for videos
– MP3 and WAV for audio files
– For file sizes greater than 50 MB, please either use a file hosting service (e.g. WeTransfer) or upload your entry to a social media platform (e.g. YouTube) and send us the relevant link.
Conditions: Minimum age 16. One entry per person/group per category. Detailed conditions of participation.
Description: Your artwork represents the post horn in an audible and/or visual form.
Specifications: The post horn must be visually or audibly recognizable. Please film or take a picture of your artwork and send us the data/images. The winning entry will be displayed in the Museum of Communication and must not exceed dimensions of 1 x 1 x 1 meters.
Size specifications: Maximum file size 50 MB
– PDF for texts
– JPG, PEG and PNG for images
– MP4 and AVI for videos
– MP3 and WAV for audio files
– For file sizes greater than 50 MB, please either use a file hosting service (e.g. WeTransfer) or upload your entry to a social media platform (e.g. YouTube) and send us the relevant link.
Conditions: Minimum age 16. One entry per person/group per category. Detailed conditions of participation.
How to participate in competition 1 “Do the Du-Da-Do”
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Create entry
Produce your creative performance in one of the four categories and record it as a video, image or audio file. The condition is that the sound sequence of the post horn must be audibly recognizable or that the post horn is visible.
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Participation by mail
Send us your entry by e-mail. The maximum file size is 50 MB. All common formats are permitted. For file sizes larger than 50 MB, either use a file hosting service (e.g. WeTransfer) or upload your contribution to a social media platform (e.g. YouTube) and send us the corresponding link.
Please complete the data fields provided in the e-mail, e.g. name and address.
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Closing date for entries: 18 August 2024
Send us your entry by 18 August 2024. We wish you the best of luck! Winners will be informed directly and invited to the award ceremony at the Museum of Communication in Bern in September.
Important information
Win one of the prizes below
The jury will award the following prizes per category to the participants:
Main prizes per category
First prize: One hotel voucher from Switzerland Travel Centre valid throughout Switzerland worth CHF 1,500
Second prize: One holiday voucher from REKA Ferien valid throughout Switzerland worth CHF 1,000
Third prize: One festival voucher valid for a music festival of your choice anywhere in Switzerland worth CHF 500
Other prizes:
4th – 10th prize: 7 x 1 public transport voucher worth CHF 250
11th – 15th prize: 5 x 1 collector’s model of a Postbus (scale 1:50) worth CHF 89
16th – 20th prize: 5 x 1 vintage PostBus shoulder bag worth CHF 80
21st – 40th prize: 20 x 1 PostBus thermos flask worth CHF 44
41st – 50th prize: 10 x 1 vintage PostBus shopping bag worth CHF 35
![Pocket with post horn design](https://www2.postauto.ch/-/media/postauto/freizeitangebote/wettbewerbe/wettbewerb-posthorn/bag.jpg?mw=236&vs=1&hash=193EE590F2F92902480C21B496C2642D)
![Postbus thermos flask](https://www2.postauto.ch/-/media/postauto/freizeitangebote/wettbewerbe/wettbewerb-posthorn/thermokanne.jpg?mw=236&vs=1&hash=1DD30325A72E90A7F7F1444E452BCBC9)
![PostBus shoulder bag](https://www2.postauto.ch/-/media/postauto/freizeitangebote/wettbewerbe/wettbewerb-posthorn/schultertasche.jpg?mw=236&vs=1&hash=893AF870367BD4E9F48B4FC67BE4DFD3)
![Collector Postbus model](https://www2.postauto.ch/-/media/postauto/freizeitangebote/wettbewerbe/wettbewerb-posthorn/modell.jpg?mw=236&vs=1&hash=F7C56367683DD90E2206B2C686DFEF6D)
![Excited spectators in the evening mood at an open-air concert in front of a illuminated stage.](https://www2.postauto.ch/-/media/postauto/freizeitangebote/wettbewerbe/wettbewerb-posthorn/festival.jpg?mw=236&vs=1&hash=B158AB649B7177E72853EEB269BD44D8)
![Six identical chalet-style holiday homes in a rural setting (Reka holiday village)](https://www2.postauto.ch/-/media/postauto/freizeitangebote/wettbewerbe/wettbewerb-posthorn/reka-feriendorf.jpg?mw=236&vs=1&hash=302CF8487830D28525D030781280B98A)
![Photo of an idyllic little town by the lake next to a park with flowers and palm trees. Snowy mountains in the background.](https://www2.postauto.ch/-/media/postauto/freizeitangebote/wettbewerbe/wettbewerb-posthorn/hotel.jpg?mw=236&vs=1&hash=8912E7FA7F5A6E06C87B784C7BD9D7DC)
You decide the winner
![Sébastien Dufaut](https://www2.postauto.ch/-/media/postauto/freizeitangebote/wettbewerbe/wettbewerb-posthorn/sebastien-dufaut-1053-1053.jpg?mw=400&vs=1&hash=43C0C3D90524E9B390615AB894B0E8DD)
Sébastien Dufaut
Head of Strategy and Innovation, PostBus Executive Board
![Luzius Weber](https://www2.postauto.ch/-/media/postauto/freizeitangebote/wettbewerbe/wettbewerb-posthorn/luzius-weber-1053-1053.jpg?mw=400&vs=1&hash=88C45068BCCBD3BD1D314E75134BBAC3)
Luzius Weber
Head of Communication, PostBus Executive Board
![Simon Glauser](https://www2.postauto.ch/-/media/postauto/freizeitangebote/wettbewerbe/wettbewerb-posthorn/simon-glauser-1053-1053.jpg?mw=400&vs=1&hash=FA0CBBECC7BBB4242627EF576A35F320)
Simon Glauser
PostBus Communication, singer in the band “FraktionsZwang”, podcaster
![Rachel Grüninger](https://www2.postauto.ch/-/media/postauto/freizeitangebote/wettbewerbe/wettbewerb-posthorn/rachel-grueninger-986-963.jpg?mw=400&vs=1&hash=B5BE0AC087C76000603903C957525C61)
Rachel Grüninger
PostBus driver from Ticino and influencer
![Nora Haldemann](https://www2.postauto.ch/-/media/postauto/freizeitangebote/wettbewerbe/wettbewerb-posthorn/nora-haldemann-1053-1053.jpg?mw=400&vs=1&hash=9D4479B633D1AE03BCB34DEACE241B66)
Nora Haldemann
Curator of the Postal and Transport History and Philately Collection, Museum of Communication in Bern
Award ceremony
The winners of the three main prizes in each category (12 winners in total) will be contacted directly to inform them and invite them to receive their prize. The award ceremony will be held at the end of September at the Museum of Communication in Bern. The winning entries will be included in the museum collection insofar as this is possible from a conservatory perspective.
Conditions of participation
The conditions of participation (PDF, 52.5 KB)[Media | Not Accessible] apply to participation in the “Do the Du-Da-Do” competition.