Mail carrier
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Any mail carried or delivered by bicycle. The most well-known bicycle mail was carried by Arthur C. Banta in 1894, during the San Francisco mail strike.
Most mail carried on trains in the pre-RPO era was cancelled, sorted and bagged before it was put on board, and bore no special markings to indicate how it was transported. Only mail actually received on the train itself received special handstamps.
When mail carriers have gone on strike, entrepreneurs have often filled the void. In 1971, postal workers in Great Britain went on strike. Within days, hundreds of local posts began operation, many of which issued their own stamps.
Ship letter: Mail carried by private ship.
Short set: An incomplete set of stamps, usually lacking either the high value or one or more key values.
Flying mail car: Fairchild plane designed to carry mail from New York to San Francisco, made first trip Oct. 1, 1946, sorting mail while in flight.
Flyktingläger: (Swed.) refugee camp..
Flyktinglägerpost: (Swed.) refugee camp mail ...
Catapult Mail - mail carried by air, for a fee, from a ship at sea to land. This obsolete service was intended to shorten the length of time it took mail to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
CDS - see Circular Date Stamp.
Aerophilately - Area of stamp collecting which concentrates on mail carried by air.
Agency - Post Office maintained by one country in another countries territory.
In those days, many trains that carried the mail had "mail cars" which carried the mail and a postal clerk, who cancelled the stamps with postmarks. R.P.O. means "Railway Post Office".
Balloon Mail - Mail carried by balloon in Paris during the War of 1870. Such mail was called "Balloon Monte."
Balloon Monte - See "Balloon Mail." ...
Special flight stamp - stamp for use on mail carried on special flights. Usage: Netherlands - inscribed Bijzondere Vluchten; Switzerland - inscribed Pro Aero. PTI, 1987.
Stamp issued specifically to prepay postage for mail carried by air.
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 See also: Stamp, Used, Cover, Cancel, Trans
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