Mobile post offices deliver mail and other postal services through specially-equipped vehicles, such as trucks and trains.
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Mobile Post Office - post office facility that sorts and distributes mail while in transit, whether by rail (including street car), water, or highway.
Mobile Post Office: Portable mail-handling equipment and personnel, generally in trains, trucks, streetcars or buses. Often used at major events in Australia, such as Moomba, etc.
Mobile Post Office (MPO) - Portable mail-handling equipment and personnel operating from any viable form or transportation.
Monochrome - A stamp design consisting of a single color.
MPO — "Mobile Post Office." MPOs comprise portable mail-handling equipment and personnel, generally in railroad cars, streetcars, trucks or buses. Mail handled by an MPO is normally identifiable as such by the postmark.
Ambulante: (Fr., Bel.) poste ambulante overprint on stamps of Belgium and France used for a mobile post office.
Ambulance laquintinie: surtax overprint for Free French Army ambulances; 1941: with value in francs, for Cameroun.
- Mobile Post Office - Usually only at sites for 1-2 days only.
Make-up - The contents of a stamp booklet, usually in total number of stamps of each denomination.
United States Highway Post Office Cover Catalog,
Mobile Post Office Society, 1987
This is the definitive work on collecting HPO covers and cancels - it lists every route and illustrates every cancel, and includes an excellent history of the service.
Ambulante: This word means "moving" in Spanish and other Latin languages. It appears in cancellations and indicates that the item was processed by a mobile post office.
 See also: Stamp, Used, Cover, Cancel, Postmark
  
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