Macquires Express: baggage express firm serviced New York City to railroad and steamship lines; used a label; 1880s.
Mactan Island: bogus stamps and overprints for Philippine island south of Cebu.
Macula: (Sp.) stain, spot, blemish.
The fastest way to send a letter from San Francisco, where this originated, to the East Coast, was via an Express company, on a steamship down the West coast to Nicaragua, across the isthmus via mule and train to the Gulf of Mexico, ...
Mail steamers were steamships which carried the mail across waterways, such as across an ocean or between islands, primarily during the 19th Century and early 20th Century, ...
The cover is addressed to a steamship agent in Tacoma, Wash. The two 5-ore orange King Gustav V stamps (Sweden Scott 391) are canceled by two strikes of an Edinburgh, Scotland, paquebot postmark dated July 22, 1952, ...
Lady McLeod is a steamship run by a private company. This steamship was featured on a stamp during Mauritius ear. As early as 1843, the Broadway of Penny Post of New York had a stamp showing the same steam locomotive.
Railway Post Office - a postal facility on trains, steamships and street cars for processing mail in transit. The first official RPO route was established in 1864. The initials R.P.O. generally appear in postmarks applied by a Railway Post Office.
But the advent of new forms of transportation, such as the steamship and rail, made it easier to correspond over longer distances.
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