Transportation and methods of delivery are a common theme for the designs of special delivery stamps.
The U.S. stamp is inscribed "Special Postal Delivery" and "Secures Immediate Delivery at a Special Delivery Office." ...
Transport of Mails
Mails in the Roman Empire were carried by public course using light carts that drive through concrete roads. Post master originally meant horse-hirer. In 1830 mail by rail began to replace horses and coaches.
New Transportation Makes Sending Mail Easier:
Written correspondence has been around since ancient times. Until the 19th century the methods of delivery were always the same: foot, horse and sail.
[edit] Transportation based studies
First flight cover for Nassau to Miami airmail route in 1929
Zeppelin mail from Chemnitz, Germany to Sausalito, USA on 1st North American flight of Hindenburg in May 1936 ...
Postal Transportation Service - successor to the Railway Mail Service in 1949 with responsibility for the transportation of mail by land, sea, and air.
Postal Treaty - see Convention Rate.
Are the Transportation Series coils dead? The U.S.Postal Service claims it will issue no more new designs in this popular series, which has sustained this collecting area for more than ten years.
15¢ Transport Plane, UR #22765, tiny invisible tear in margin (F+)
2.75
C32 ...
Post Roads - any transportation network designated to carry mail. The Post Office Department designated waterways as post roads in 1823 and railways during the late 1830s.
ATLC - Air Transport Label Catalog.
ATM Stamps - Stamps that are created in a format to permit their sale and distribution via automated teller and similar machinery.
Many of the early 'Transportation Series' coils were printed on the Cottrell presses, which used two plates in tandem to print the stamps.
TACA: Transportes Aereos Centro Americanos; Air line carrying mail between the U.S. and Central America, started Nov.1943.
Tachado: (Sp.) obliterated, blotted out.
Tache: (Fr.) spot, stain.
However, difficulties were encountered when mail was to be transported over international boundaries.
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military ordinary mail (MOM)—A category for Department of Defense official mail sent at Periodicals or Standard Mail rates that requires faster service than sealift transportation to, from, and between military post offices.
A generic term for the cloth sacks used to transport and store coins. These came into use in the mid-nineteenth century and replaced wooden kegs.
Air Mail Letters packets or any other postal item that is delivered by air transport. Some countries issues special stamps and covers with printed stamps for such mail but most allows the use of normal stamps.
Paquebot: Cancellation indicating the use of sea transport in mailing.
Par Avon: French for “By Air'.
Parcel post stamps: Dedicated stamps for parcels.
Cover bearing the stamps of more than one country when separate postal charges are paid for transport of a cover by each country. Also stamps of the same country canceled at two different times on the same cover as a souvenir.
Commatology: ...
From 1971 to 1984, local postal labels were issued by the Kaulbach Island Local Carriage Service on mail that was transported to and from the island to the mainland.
They are used by collectors who specialize in collecting stamps from other countries, or specialized collections that focus on transportation methods and other topics.
When the stamps that you collect are all on one subject, such as space, paintings, transport, sports or animals, this is called thematic collecting.
How do you get around? Buses, trains, trams or ferries; this issue features popular public transport that is used in our capital cities.
Definitive: Stamp issued for an indefinite period and in indefinite quantity, usually for several years or more. The United States Presidential issue of 1938 and the Transportation coil stamps are examples.
Aerophilately: A specialized area of collecting concentrating on stamps or covers transported by air.
Stamped envelopes and envelopes with stamps are quite different. In pre-stamp days the postage was denoted by a rubber or cork handstamp, along with the means of transportation, and the regular postal markings. Then came the envelopes bearing stamps.
Dimensional Weight Dimensional weight is based on the overall size of an object and relates to the additional cost of transporting light but sizeable items..
 See also: Trans, Stamp, Cover, Used, Local
  
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