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	Life on the Travelling Post Office Trains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The TPO Duty Allowance is designed to compensate to some degree for the loss of the amenities which are accepted as normal in the Stationary Offices, and the lack of which will be dealt with more fully in another couple of pages or so.
		The Post Office Doctor has a very difficult task here, as, while it is a relatively simple matter for an experienced Medical man to count a chap's legs and rule him out should he be one short, it's another thing entirely to diagnose an ulcer, for instance, if a chap refuses to admit to it.
		One of the rules in the TPO Rule Book which is never broken, is the one to the effect that a failure of duty is to be avoided at all costs, and that in the event of a failure being inevitable, every effort should be made to reduce it to the minimum.
	www.joyce.whitchurch.btinternet.co.uk /tpos.htm (2959 words)

	SM: List of Post Offices
		The stamp on this cover was the ½a red watercolour of the Jammu old rectangulars obliterated with the square fl seal of the native post office at Jammu City, and the cover shows additional postmarks of Umballa, the spelling of which differs from that of the label in respect of the initial letter.
		Travelling Post Office, Lahore, for reference.” The stamp on this (as on all the six covers which follow) is the ½a New Rectangular in red on thin wove paper.
		The obliteration on the stamp is the large barred-L of the British Post Office at Srinagar (Kashmir).
	www.kashmirstamps.ca /SMPOs.html (1047 words)

	The Post Offices at Princeton, Woodbury, and Gobles, Ontario (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Of interest regarding the establishment of new post offices in the area is a letter in the possession of Mrs.
		The Princeton post office was reopened on July 6, 1841 with William Grinton as postmaster.
		A post office was established as Woodbury on April 1, 1869 with Lionel Shepherd as postmaster.
	www.magma.ca /~ekipp/postoff.htm (3189 words)

	Travelling Post Office - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Travelling Post Office (TPO) is a type of mail train where the post is sorted en-route.
		TPOs were equipped with letter boxes so that mail could be posted whilst the train stood at a station.
		TPO trains are formed of several different types of vehicle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Travelling_Post_Office (265 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Romanian post office received help in the reorganization of its domestic and international postal service from three Swiss experts: Edmond Ho^hn, later Director General of the Swiss posts and Director of the UPU International Bureau; Paul Jeanrenaud, Director of the Neucha#tel postal district; and Joseph-Karl Schneider, Comptroller of the St. Gallen postal district.
		The Post Office was converted to an Autonomous Regime (Regia Autonoma@) as of Nov. 30, 1929, and similarly for the railroads and ports.
		All matters pertaining to posts, telegraphs and telephones are dealt with by the Regional Offices in accordance with laws, regulations and current circular instructions emanating from the capital.
	www.cse.psu.edu /~dheller/post/intro (17527 words)

	Whitehaven TPO
		The Whitehaven - Huddersfield and Huddersfield - Whitehaven TPOs are direct descendants of the Carnforth and Whitehaven Sorting Carriage which is shown by Post Office records to have commenced service in January 1875, but which may have operated as early as 1869.
		The TPO was suspended from September 1940 to October 1946.
		On 3 January 1965 the TPO was extended to and from Stalybridge as a result of the cessation of the Liverpool - Huddersfield TPO.
	www.trainweb.org /drs/tpo.htm (341 words)

	Letters by Night Prestige Book, the Travelling Post Offices - Great Britain stamps from Norvic Philatelics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The first proper travelling post office (a converted horse box), in which the mail could be sorted, ran between Birmingham and Warrington on the Grand Junction Railway in January 1838.
		In the late 19th century the TPOs were specially timed to coincide with the ships which carried foreign mail, the 'Irish Mail' running from London to Holyhead, which also carried mail for the USA from 1895, and the 'Continental' TPO from London to Dover.
		The South Western TPO ran to Southampton and the Portsmouth Sorting Carriage was particularly important for conveying mail to Queen Victoria when she was at Osborne on the Isle of Wight.
	www.norphil.co.uk /2004/tpo-pb.htm (913 words)

	Prologue - The Fast Mail
		Most mail traveled in closed pouches or sacks, unopened from one terminal post office to the next, where it was held for examination, separation, and dispatch on the next day.
		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.
	www.archives.gov /publications/prologue/2005/fall/fast-mail-1.html (2966 words)

	Railway post office - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		By the 1880s, railway post office routes were operating on the vast majority of passenger trains in the United States.
		When the post office made a controversial policy change to process mail in large regional "sectional centers," the remaining railway post office routes along with all highway post office routes were phased out of service.
		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)

	Using the Post Office for Bicycle Touring in Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Poste Restante is an international postal convention, operating routinely in Australia, as in most countries.
		Many travellers in Australia rely on it, but many others, particularly non-English speakers, seem not to be aware of it here.
		One possible difficulty is that some Post Offices offer a 5 day (only) service, that is, they may be closed on weekends.
	users.chariot.net.au /~gloria/post_office.html (777 words)

	Mail by Rail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Travelling Post Offices and their staff have been loyal servants of the Royal Mail for many years and have considerable expertise in sorting mail at speed on the move...
		A TPO carriage could run as part of a passenger train, but more often than not would form a complete train, as a 'Mail Special'.
		The last TPO trains are expected to run on 9th/10th of January 2004.
	www.lightstraw.co.uk /gpo/tpo (688 words)

	Doig's Ethiopian Cancellations 1895-1936
		The first post offices were attached to the Abyssinia Campaign to rescue British captives held by the Emperor Theodore at Magdala in 1867-8.
		A travelling post office was opened on the railway between Addis Abeba and the border town of Daouale.
		The French established a post office which opened November 1, 1906; this PO was attached to Port Said, not Djibouti.
	doig.net /EthiCancels2.htm (587 words)

	Winchelsea Post Office
		The Post Office is open from 9:00am to 1:30pm from Monday to Friday, in other words, every weekday morning.
		For less mobile residents, the Post Office is a lifeline, but it is a valuable amenity for all residents, as it avoids trips into Rye just to use the post office there.
		At the end of the day, the doors into the Post Office door are firmly locked and cash is moved to a larger safe until it can be collected by armoured van.
	www.winchelsea.net /community/post_off.htm (991 words)

	BBC Cumbria - Features - Travelling Post Offices
		The end of the Travelling Post Offices signals the end of an era and a way of life for those involved in the service.
		The TPO carriage was equipped with an extendable net, fitted to the body side, with an opening into the carriage behind it to catch incoming pouches.
		The travelling sorting offices were a Victorian solution to a Victorian problem of moving post around the country before the era of motorways and air travel.
	www.bbc.co.uk /cumbria/features/2004/01/train_mail/index.shtml (707 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| End of line for mail trains
		Special rail services where post is sorted en route have reached the end of the line after more than 160 years of service.
		The Royal Mail said the travelling sorting offices were a Victorian solution to a Victorian problem of moving post around the country before the era of motorways and air travel.
		Steve Griffiths, TPO unit manager, said the end of the service would come as a "big shock" to many of the workers.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/3379475.stm (491 words)

	POST OFFICE - MAIL SERVICES - 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
		In the 1860s three different rates applied: one for delivery from the office of posting, another for delivery in the same province, and another for delivery in another province.
		In 1878 the first Railway Travelling Post Office, in which mail clerks occupied a van and sorted and closed mail en route, began between Christchurch and Dunedin.
		At the close of the First World War the Post Office was considering using aeroplanes for carrying mail and, in 1919, George Bolt made the first experimental mail flight from Auckland to Dargaville.
	www.teara.govt.nz /1966/P/PostOffice/MailServices/en (1330 words)

	A History of the Maynard Post Office (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The term "post" came from the Latin postum meaning "position" or "place" and they referred to the system of "posts" or relay that were set up along a road by which messages were relayed between one runner (or rider) and the next.
		Rice was observed on several occasions returning to the Post Office in the evening with a lighted lantern that he used to read the addresses for the last portions of his route.
		Under Sheridan's tenure the post office continued to grow until it outgrew its quarters and was moved to the Cox Building (corner of Nason and Summer, across from the Knights of Columbus) - the actual year is not available, but people place it in the early 1950's.
	web.maynard.ma.us /history/post-office.htm (3174 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Programmes \| Moneybox \| The travelling post office
		Rural post offices are closing at a rate of 150 a year.
		It is one of only two mobile post office services currently in existence in the UK and is part of an intitiative by the Post Office to reach customers who live more than a mile from their nearest branch.
		The ongoing post office closures around the country are causing problems for many people, particularly pensioners and families who collect state benefits.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/programmes/moneybox/4427595.stm (539 words)

	Bures Post Office
		Mrs Steed retired aged 72 years, after serving as Sub-Postmaster for 11 years, previous to that she was a Clerical assistant in the Post Office for 40 years, a total time of 51 years.
		When she commenced work there were no Postal orders, no parcel post, no telephone, no licenses, and boys delivered the letters.
		Mrs Steeds official retirement was held at West Mersea Post Office together with loads of Post Office dignitaries.
	www.bures-online.co.uk /postoffice/postoffice.htm (683 words)

	The Scotsman - UK - Prince hosts party for Travelling Post Office workers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		THE Prince of Wales joined crews of the disbanded Royal Mail Travelling Post Offices in the grounds of his Highgrove estate, near Tetbury in Gloucestershire, yesterday to pay tribute to their years of service.
		The Travelling Post Offices (TPOs), in which mail was sorted en route to its destination, were axed in January this year under cost-cutting plans aimed at saving the Royal Mail £10 million a year.
		The first TPO journey took place in 1838, from Birmingham to Warrington, and by the time of the First World War there were more than 130 in use.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /uk.cfm?id=714832004 (412 words)

	Hello Athens, Formalities for entering Greece, Climate, Public Holidays, Post Offices, Shopping, Fun and Travel Guide ...
		The main offices at 100, Aeolou Street, Syntagma Square and Acropolis Kiosk are open Monday through Friday from 7.30 am - 8.00 pm, Saturday from 7.30 am - 2.00 pm and Sunday from 9.00 am - 1.30 pm.
		The post offices: Central post office of Piraeus, St. Nikolas Piraeus, Kallithea, Athens 49 (Athens parcel department), and the post offices in the Sorting Centres of Athens, Kallithea, Kessariani, Peristeri, Airport are open Monday through Friday from 7.30 am - 8.00 pm.
		An international network spanning 130 countries, with 320 post offices through-out Greece in all main cities and towns plus the smallest villages, offers the customer many outlets from which to send mail abroad - knowing it will reach the destination speedily.
	www.travelling.gr /helloathens/GeneralInfo.html (368 words)

	Postal News from January 2003
		Post offices were scheduled to be closed, curbing nearly all postal services _ including payment of pensions, ANSA said.
		Post offices are now closed as a result but agents of the Postal Authority are continuing to operate.
		The post office group is likely to report an operating loss of about pounds 230m for 2002-03 - the first 12 months of a three-year recovery plan - compared with a pounds 350m deficit in 2001-02.
	www.postcom.org /archive/news2003/news05-03.htm (14337 words)

	National Life Stories: An Oral History of the Post Office
		The Travelling Post Office was closed in 2003.
		The collection covers diverse areas such as sorting office design, remote rural deliveries and relations with the government, as well as one-off postal events such as the prompt delivery of the latest Harry Potter instalment to households up and down the country.
		Also included are individuals known beyond the world of the Post Office, such as the artist David Gentleman (who has been designing stamps since the 1960s), Tony Benn, (Postmaster General in the same decade) and Gwyneth Dunwoody MP (member of the Stamp Advisory Committee in the 1990s).
	www.bl.uk /collections/sound-archive/history_postoffice.html (600 words)

	Railways Postal History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Goodbody, The Railway Post Offices of Denmark, 1979.
		SFF, [Sweden] The Post and Rail in Dal - Post och Jarnvagar pa Dal, 1983; (in Swedish).
		Smith, Peter A. The Travelling Post Offices of Egypt, 1983.
	www.postalhistory.org /sites/railways.htm (753 words)

	The Travelling Post Office - Friends of M30272M TPO Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Friends of M30272M TPO Group are determined that such a historical aspect of the railway's history is not lost, as such they are restoring a TPO from 1949.
		The Travelling Post Office system ended on the night of Friday 9th January 2004.
		Reports on the last week of the North East TPO can be found in our articles section, as well as details from other trains on the last night.
	www.tpo.org.uk (312 words)

	The British Postal Museum & Archive - Signs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Examples of the well-known red, yellow and green oval Post Office signs often illustrate the town or area from which they came.
		The signs from the Travelling Post Office and the Post Office Railway are typically warning, route, direction and entrance signs.
		The collection also hold examples of The Post Office Direction (POD) sign, found on the top of pillar boxes with an arrow pointing in the direction of the nearest Post Office.
	www.postalheritage.org.uk /collections/museum/signs (269 words)

	TPO FC History
		The North East T.P.O. Football team was a marvellous adventure, and one that myself or my good friend Gerry Purcell would not have missed for a moment.
		The North Eastern Travelling Post Office was founded in 1988, by Dave Griffiths, and Gerry Purcell.
		The club was formed with a primary purpose of giving the over night travelling lads a game of football before their evening return South.
	www.geocities.com /netpofclub/tpo_fc_history.htm (665 words)

	News from Anguilla, Tranquility in Blue (07/96)
		Anguilla does not have home delivery of mail and many people do not find it convenient to rent a post office box in The Valley and travel to it for their mail.
		Since we live in Puerto Rico we travel frequently throughout the Caribbean and we found Anguilla to be the friendliest island that we have visited.
		The worst affected were the power station, the Governor's office and the hospital.
	www.news.ai /news9607.html (4387 words)

	Railway Post
		The Post Office therefore decided to transfer the mails to the railway.
		In 1838 John Ramsey, a Post Office official, designed a Travelling Post Office carriage.
		Using a traductor arm and a net, the post office workers were able to collect the mail at stations without the train having to stop.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /RAjunction.htm (182 words)

	eBay - the post office, Postcards Paper, Publications Supplies items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Russian Post Office in the Empire, Turkey, China
		Postcard, New Post Office (in the early 1900s) in DC
		The Post Office and Dee St. Invercargill, New Zealand
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=the+post+office&...&krd=1 (536 words)

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