Stamp: Travelling Post Office: Sorting (United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland 2017)
Travelling Post Office: Sorting (United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland 2017)
15 February (United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland ) within release Mail by Rail goes into circulation Stamp Travelling Post Office: Sorting face value 1st No Face Value
| Stamp Travelling Post Office: Sorting in catalogues | |
|---|---|
| Michel: | Mi: GB AT123I |
Stamp is square format.
A key feature of Travelling Post Offices was that mail was sorted while on the move. The Up Special TPO from Carlisle was the longest TPO in the world and could have 50 highly skilled postal staff working on it, while the smallest of mail trains could have just a single sorter. Initial value £0.64Also in the issue Mail by Rail:
- Stamp - Travelling Post Office: Sorting face value 1st;
- Stamp - Travelling Post Office: Bag Exchange face value 1st;
- Stamp - Travelling Post Office: On The Move face value 1st;
- Stamp - Travelling Post Office: Loading face value 1st;
- Stamp - Night Mail: Poster face value 1st;
- Stamp - Post Office (London) Railway face value 1st;
Stamp Travelling Post Office: Sorting it reflects the thematic directions:
Postal history is the study of postal systems and how they operate and, or, the study of the use of postage stamps and covers and associated postal artifacts illustrating historical episodes in the development of postal systems. The term is attributed to Robson Lowe, a professional philatelist, stamp dealer and stamp auctioneer, who made the first organised study of the subject in the 1930s and described philatelists as "students of science", but postal historians as "students of humanity". More precisely, philatelists describe postal history as the study of rates, routes, markings, and means (of transport).
