Paquebot mail begins at sea, postmarked on land
By Rick Miller
At the Vienna conference in 1891, the Universal Postal Union established special handling regulations for mail posted on the high seas aboard ocean-going vessels.
Paquebot - see Packet Letter.
Parcel Airlift - service for a fee that provides for air transportation, on a space available basis for mail on which the normal postage is paid, to or from military post offices outside the contiguous 48 states.
Paquebot (‘Packet Boat'). Term given to letters posted on board ships at sea and to the form of postmark used.
Parachute Mail Messages that have been dropped by parachute usually onto remote areas or small islands.
Paquebot: Cancellation indicating an item was mailed aboard a ship.
Paquebot: Cancellation indicating the use of sea transport in mailing.
Par Avon: French for “By Air'.
Parcel post stamps: Dedicated stamps for parcels.
Paquebot mail begins at sea, postmarked on land
Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms
Alaska Mail Service: the Mail Steamer Elsie
By the 1930s a method of signalling the impending arrival of a mail steamer at Aden was still needed ...
Sea Mail: paquebot marking.
Seapost: operations and markings of governmental postal employees operating a post office aboard a seagoing ship on a route where a fixed schedule is maintained.
Paquebot - (French) International term used to cancel stamps on mail posted on board merchant ships, or cancelled at a port foreign to the country whose stamps it bears.
Pc. - Abbreviation for postcard.
 See also: Stamp, Local, Postal history, Postmark, Used
  
|
RSS
