China’s Train Post Offices – Modern Chinese TPO Postal Markings
Philatelic Database has just acquired a substantial collection of archival material for its philatelic library. Amongst these tomes was a curious journal entitled: Stamps World: “The only academic, informative and interesting stamp magazine in Hong Kong,” published by Philatelic Publications ...
Friday, January 9th, 2009
Fun with Stamps: How the Post is Carried Now (1958)
This is the first of a series of enjoyable articles extracted from "More Fun with Stamps" (1958) by Dianne Doubtfire & Kay Horowicz. We have cut the title down to "Fun with Stamps" on PDb as we do not have ...
Monday, September 21st, 2009
Great Britain: The Travelling Post Offices (1894)
In this article, taken from The Ludgate Magazine (London, 1899), we have a veritable feast for collectors of TPOs. It is certainly unusual to see the operations of travelling post offices in the nineteenth century. The postal system of the country ...
Friday, June 20th, 2008
Norfolk Southern Mail Train 21J
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Sunday, January 11th, 2009
Post-Offices on Wheels (1929)
This article, by Cecil J. Allen, M. Inst. T., was originally published in Collins’ Railway Annual in 1929. It is most informative and should be of great interest to Travelling Post Offices and railway enthusiasts. The photographs are splendid, as ...
Thursday, January 15th, 2009
Railway Post Office Demonstration
On September 20, 2008 Illinois Railway Museum presented a day dedicated to the Railway Mail Service and Railway Post Office cars. Back in the day, mail was not only carried by rail but in some cases was sorted enroute aboard Railway ...
Sunday, December 21st, 2008
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