15 February (United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland ) within release Mail by Rail goes into circulation Stamp Travelling Post Office: Loading face value 1st No Face Value
Stamp Travelling Post Office: Loading in catalogues | |
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Stamp is square format.
Euston Station: Loading the Travelling Post Office is a 1948 poster designed by artist Grace Golden. Main-line railway termini such as Euston station in London became hives of activity as dozens of mail vans crowded in to have their post unloaded for dispatch across the country via the TPOs. Initial value £0.64Also in the issue Mail by Rail:
Stamp Travelling Post Office: Loading 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).