Stamp: Travelling Post Office: Bag Exchange (United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland 2017)
Travelling Post Office: Bag Exchange (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: Bag Exchange face value 1st No Face Value
| Stamp Travelling Post Office: Bag Exchange in catalogues | |
|---|---|
| Michel: | Mi: GB AT119I |
Stamp is square format.
Initial value £ 0.65 A specially designed apparatus enabled leather pouches containing mail bags to be exchanged with a moving Travelling Post Office (TPO). Pouches were hung from track-side standards or train-side ‘traductors’ to be caught by nets. The first successful mail-bag exchange was in 1838.Also 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: Bag Exchange 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).
