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	Railway post office - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad #1926, a heavyweight RPO preserved at the Illinois Railway Museum.
		By the 1880s, railway post office routes were operating on the vast majority of passenger trains in the United States.
		This Boat Railway Post Office was the Lake Winnipesaukee RPO operating between The Weirs, New Hampshire, and Bear Island, New Hampshire, on Lake Winnipesaukee.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Railway_post_office (1497 words)

	Topicals: railway stamps and post offices
		Railway letter stamps were issued by some railway companies for use on letters carried by the train, especially when the rail company charged an extra fee for this service.
		Railway stamps issued by government-owned railways are the equivalent of postage stamps issued by the national postal authority.
		This railway was begun in colonial Queensland in 1867.
	www.linns.com /howto/refresher/topicals_20041018/refreshercourse.asp (1530 words)

	Recollections of an RPO clerk at the Sacramento Post Office
		Recollections of an RPO clerk at the Sacramento Post Office
		While the Post Office Department supplied clerks and equipment, the RPO cars were owned and operated by the individual railroads.
		Railway postal workers were issued snub-nosed.38 caliber revolvers, though many never bothered to practice with these notoriously inaccurate "peashooters." During the Depression, and at other times when extremely valuable items were being carried, clerks were issued submachine guns.
	www.chinet.com /html/transportation/rpo.html (1071 words)

	History of the United States Postal Service 1775-1993
		The Post Office Department of the Confederate States of America was established on February 21, 1861, by an Act of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States.
		The customer had to take a letter to the post office to mail it, and the addressee had to pick up the letter at the post office, unless he or she lived in one of about 40 big cities where a carrier would deliver it to the home address for an extra penny or two.
		Although funds were appropriated a month before he left office in 1893, subsequent Postmasters General dragged their feet on inaugurating the new service so that it was 1896 before the first experimental rural delivery routes began in West Virginia, with carriers working out of post offices in Charlestown, Halltown, and Uvilla.
	www.usps.com /history/his2.htm (2900 words)

	Railfanning.org: Railroad History
		The act had a twofold effect: it increased the use of railroads to transmit the mails and limited the use of post riders and horse-drawn vehicles to post offices that were not on railway routes.
		The examinations were generally administered at the office of the division superintendent, using a letter case consisting of pigeonholes and boxes labeled with the names of various railway and local post offices.
		For the Railway Mail Service, the opening years of the 20th century were marked by continuing safety problems associated with the use of wooden railway postal cars, unsanitary working conditions in many of those cars, and the requirement on many occasions for clerks to work overtime beyond an eight-hour day without compensation.
	railfanning.org /history/fastmail.htm (4497 words)

	Head End: Railway Express and Railway Post Office
		Each RPO car was in exclusive use of the Post Office Department's Railway Mail Service (prior to 1949), Postal Transportation Service (between late 1949 and mid-1960), or Bureau of Transportation (after 1960) while staffed with a crew performing mail distribution.
		Railway Post Office is a group focused on the transportation of mail on trains throughout North America, particularly in the 1860-1977 period when mail was sorted on board the trains.
		When the RPO network was viable --that is, generally prior to 1958-- the majority of intercity First Class, newspaper, and periodical (Second and Third Classes) mail was distributed aboard Railway and Highway Post Offices.
	www.lakemirabel.com /Railroad/HeadEnd.html (2468 words)

	Sorting Mail in a Railway Post Office Car
		Before railway transportation was introduced, the mails were carried on horseback, by stagecoach, by sulky, by canal packet and by steamboat.
		The vast expansion of the Post Office Department since the advent of railroads is shown by the fact that total government postal receipts increased from $2,000,000 in 1830 to $767,000,000 in 1940.
		The pouch is sealed, labeled for a certain train and taken to the railway station by a mail messenger or some other authorized person, who delivers it to one of the railway mail clerks on the train.
	www.catskillarchive.com /rrextra/mailsort.Html (615 words)

	London Post Office Railway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Post Office Railway, also known as Mail Rail, was a narrow gauge driverless private underground railway in London built by the Post Office to move mail between sorting offices.
		It ran east-west from Paddington Head District Sorting Office in the west to the Eastern Head District Sorting Office at Whitechapel in the east, a distance of 6.5 miles (10.5 km).
		Royal Mail had earlier stated that using the Post Office Railway was five times more expensive than using road transport for the same task.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/London_Post_Office_Railway (386 words)

	RAILWAY PHILATELIC GROUP
		With the railways coming into prominence as major carriers of the mail, the railway station was the obvious site for a postal sorting office.
		A peculiarly British invention was the Railway Sub Office, a small town or village post office, which exchanged mail directly with a railway travelling post office rather than with its own Head Office.
		The issue and use of railway letter stamps was governed by Act of Parliament because the Post Office had a monopoly for the delivery of letters.
	geocities.com /tonygoodbody (363 words)

	Railroad Postal Items - Railroadiana Online
		Soon, the Railway Post Office or RPO was born, embodied in railway cars that were part of passenger train consists and that were equipped for sorting mail enroute.
		A special occupation evolved -- the railway post office clerk -- who could sort mail accurately and efficiently in a swaying railway car traveling at passenger train speeds.
		By the latter decades of the 20th Century, trucks and airlines began to replace railroads as the primary means of transporting mail, and although some mail still travels by rail, the Railway Post Office has passed into history.
	www.railroadiana.org /paper/pgPostal.php (303 words)

	mailByRail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The Railway Mail Service revolutionized the way mail was processed by sorting mail aboard moving trains.
		Railway mail service began in 1832, but grew slowly until the Civil War.
		Railway Post Office trains used a system of mail cranes to exchange mail at stations without stopping.
	www.si.edu /harcourt/npm/mail/mailbyrail.html (311 words)

	California State Railroad Museum Foundation - Great Northern Railway Post Office Car No. 42
		A primary function of the railroads in the era prior to the wide use of the airplane was the transportation of the United States mail.
		Special railway post office cars were constructed to the exact specifications of the Post Office, and contained facilities which allowed for the collection and handling of mailed materials.
		The once-ever present station mail crane no longer holds the mail bag to be snatched up by the speeding trains and post office workers no longer sort letters in swaying cars filled with canvas bags and wooden pigeon holes.
	www.csrmf.org /doc.asp?id=186 (429 words)

	Colorado Railroad Museum - Golden, Colorado
		This narrow gauge RPO was a rolling post office with clerks sorting mail enroute.
		A slot in the side of the car would allow people to post a letter while the car was in station.
		This Railway Post Office car is on the Colorado Register of Historic Places.
	www.crrm.org /railroad_equipment.htm (685 words)

	2001 Excursions
		This trip will be a reenactment of the World War II time period with activities on the train, a working railway post office car, a photo runby, box lunch in Dennison, and the World War II reenactors involving the passengers in many period activities.
		The Ohio Railway Museum is restoring its railway post office car to travel on the two excursions this year as an example of period cars and war effort work.
		Recreation of the RPO operations was made possible by a 27 minute training film originally produced by the U.S. Post Office in 1956.
	www.ohiorailwaymuseum.org /excursions/01excursioninfo.html (818 words)

	National Postal Museum
		Railway Postal Clerks were considered by many to be the most highly trained postal employees.
		Special covers were designed for the Highway Post Office first trips.
		Owney was a stray mutt who wandered into the Albany, New York, post office in 1888.
	www.postalmuseum.si.edu /exhibits/2c1_railwaymail.html (388 words)

	Subterranea Britannica: Sites: post_office_railway
		The initial proposal was for an 'atmospheric railway' designed by Thomas Rammell who came up with a scheme by which a stationery steam engine would drive a large fan which could suck air out of an air tight tube and draw the vehicle towards it or blow air to push them away.
		The Post Office were initially luke warm about the scheme although they agreed to try out the new system once it had been built.
		The Post Office were not satisfied with this new service as it only shaved 4 minutes off the time taken to carry the mail by road.
	www.subbrit.org.uk /sb-sites/sites/p/post_office_railway/index.shtml (777 words)

	Research - Indexes to Railway Postal Clerks, ca. 1883-1902 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		A temporary Office of Postmaster General was established in the Federal Government by the Post Office Act (1 Stat.
		The Post Office Department was abolished, effectively July 1, 1, 1971, by the Post Reorganization Act (84 Stat.
		On December 5, 1832, the Post Office Department recognized this mode of transportation by permitting mail contractors to use railroad transportation from Lancaster to West Chester, PA; and on July 7, 1838, an Act of Congress (5 Stat.
	www.archives.gov /research/post-offices/postal-clerks-1883-1902.html (535 words)

	Untitled5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		RPO cars were used to transport the mail by the Post Office Department until the late 1960s.
		Railway Post Office clerks rode the RPOs between major cities sorting, processing and delivering the mail to all the communities.
		And if you think the RPO clerks had it easy, trains didn't always stop at every station, but the clerks had to exchange mail pouches anyway.
	www.laprensa-sandiego.org /archieve/may19/train.htm (418 words)

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		Some stations where parcels were accepted were constituted railway post offices under control of the General Post Office, and the station-master or his assistant then acted as postmaster.
		These railway post offices were supplied with a single-circle office datestamp, incorporating the letters R.O. in the design.
		These were used to both cancel stamps on letters mailed at railway post offices and for defacing railway parcel stamps.
	www.capepostalhistory.com /CapeGovernmentRailways-Postmarks.html (439 words)

	Railways Postal History
		Goodbody, The Railway Post Offices of Denmark, 1979.
		SFF, [Sweden] The Post and Rail in Dal - Post och Jarnvagar pa Dal, 1983; (in Swedish).
		Railway Post Offices of California and Nevada, 1991.
	www.postalhistory.org /sites/railways.htm (753 words)

	Century of Progress Exposition Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Railway Post Office Car--A standard 60-foot Railway Post Office Car, completely equipped and manned by government mail clerks explaining the methods of sorting, classifying and distributing government mail in a traveling post office.
		Behind the little pioneer engine was a reproduction of the first car in which U.S. Mail was assorted in transit, and thus the actual starting point of the Railway Post Office service.
		The 1934 exhibits included the Burlington Zephyr in addition to old and new locomotives, old and new Railway Post Office cars, and a five-car exhibtion train.
	hometown.aol.com /chicfair/Burlington.html (830 words)

	Railway Post Office Cover
		The stamp was cancelled by a RPO handstamp, which indicates that it was processed in a moving rail car.
		Each RPO car (usually coupled directly behind the locomotive) was full of clerks, sorting the mail "on the fly" shoulder-to-shoulder, as the train speeded and rocked its way between the cities and small towns of the United States.
		The postal history of the Railway Post Office is of particular interest to members of The Mobile Post Office Society.
	www.swansongrp.com /picdocs/rpo.html (344 words)

	History of the United States Post Office
		At that time there were 75 post offices and about 2,000 miles of post roads, although as late as 1780 the postal staff consisted only of a Postmaster General, a Secretary/Comptroller, three surveyors, one Inspector of Dead Letters, and 26 post riders.
		Around this period, in 1830, an Office of Instructions and Mail Depredations was established as the investigative and inspection branch of the Post Office Department.
		The Post Office Department was transformed into the United States Postal Service, an independent establishment of the executive branch of the Government of the United States.
	www.ceol.com /vvpo/history.html (9259 words)

	Exeter, Hampton & Amesbury Street Railway Post Office (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		At first, under the name of the EXETER STREET RAILWAY, using Car #12 (later renumbered #2 in 1902 and used as a line car until 1926), and then in 1900, a new mail car was purchased from the Newburyport Car Company.
		It is vestibuled and the exterior is painted in a creamy tint, with trimmings of carmine and gold.
		Cummings continues, "Later, the car was re-lettered "UNITED STATES MAIL AND EXPRESS" and after the R.P.O. (Railway Post Office) service was discontinued in 1910, No. 18 was used for a time as a freight car and then as a general utility and salt car.
	www.hampton.lib.nh.us /hampton/history/holman/mailcar.htm (460 words)

	Past: The 'Octopus' moves the mail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		At the center of the picture, on Mission Street, is a Railway Post Office streetcar (either D or E), stranded after the overhead power failed during the earthquake.
		RPO car C served Post Offices adjacent to electric lines in the southern sections of San Francisco.
		The RPO preceded west on Green Street and north on Powell to Filbert where, by means of crossover, it reversed direction.
	www.streetcar.org /ppf/past/octopus/index.html (2176 words)

	Railway Post Office
		In order to get a job in the railway postal service, applicants had to prove they could remember how to distribute mail for 1500 post offices in California.
		We had 750 cards with the name of a post office on one side and the postal distribution center for that post office on the other side.
		These were busses converted into mobile post offices; however, they were short lived.
	homepages.rootsweb.com /~mcclell2/homepage/railpo.htm (1119 words)

	TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS USED IN RAILWAY PHILATELY
		For the most part the notes are concerned with postmarks used on the travelling post offices and at railway station offices, but other information is given where it is thought to be helpful.
		With the publication of the Bibliography of Railway Philately this seemed to be repetitious and superfluous.
		RECORD OFFICE: A stationary office of the railway mail service where documentation for the sections (q.v.) is prepared.
	www.geocities.com /tonygoodbody/abbrev.htm (2321 words)

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