A Travelling Post Office (TPO) was a type of mail train used in Great Britain and Ireland where the post was sorted en route. The TPO can be traced back...
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first occurred in the United Kingdom with the introduction of the travelling post office in 1838 on the Grand Junction Railway, following the introduction...
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A Travelling Post Office (TPO) is a postal receiving, sorting and delivery service situated on a train, usually in a specially designated carriage that...
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A Post Office sorting van is a type of rail vehicle built for use in a Travelling Post Office. British Rail built ninety-six of these vehicles between...
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A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and...
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Royal Mail (redirect from Post Office mail)
meaning a later single delivery would be made. The same year, the travelling post office mail trains were also axed. In 2005, Royal Mail signed a contract...
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The Post Office Railway is a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge, driverless underground railway in London that was built by the Post Office with assistance from...
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Services Act of 1983, the Post Office services of the Department of Posts and Telegraphs (P&T) were divided between An Post and Telecom Éireann, the telecommunications...
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A Post Office stowage van is a type of rail vehicle built for use in a travelling post office (TPO). Several of these have passed into preservation as...
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Post Office Limited, commonly known as the Post Office, is a retail post office company in the United Kingdom that provides a wide range of products including...
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The General Post Office (GPO) was the state postal system and telecommunications carrier of the United Kingdom until 1969. Established in England in the...
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The United Kingdom pioneered the modern use of what it calls a travelling post office (TPO), a railway service that operated for the first time in 1838...
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was responsible for transport of mail and parcels, including the travelling post office trains, as well as taking over charter operations from InterCity...
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United States Postal Service (redirect from United States Post Office)
The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service, is an independent agency of the executive branch...
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The General Post Office, situated on the corner of Elizabeth and Bourke streets in Melbourne, is the former General Post Office for Victoria, Australia...
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A brake Post Office stowage van is a type of rail vehicle built for use in a travelling post office. British Rail built nine of these vehicles between...
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The Old Post Office, listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Old Post Office and Clock Tower, is located at 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue...
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The General Post Office (abbreviation GPO, commonly known as the Sydney GPO) is a heritage-listed landmark building located in Martin Place, Sydney, New...
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Rail motor coach Road-rail vehicle Rolling stock Tilting train Travelling Post Office Autorail Cab car or Control car (rail) Driving Van Trailer Driving...
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blockchain distributed consensus method Post Office Sorting Van, a type of rail vehicle used in a Travelling Post Office train SNCF TGV POS, a French high-speed...
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their Travelling Post Offices but those services were terminated in 2004. while in the USA the Railway Mail Service used a Railway post office for sorting...
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Haymarket Post Office is a heritage-listed former post office at 633–635 George Street, Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed...
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The General Post Office (abbreviated: GPO) in Brisbane, Queensland, in Australia is a heritage-listed post office located at 261 Queen Street in 1872...
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boxes, or other symbols. The Bangladesh Post Office (Bengali: বাংলাদেশ ডাক বিভাগ) also known by trade name Bangla Post is a government-operated agency responsible...
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the delivery of postal mail. Examples include: In Australia, the Travelling post office, Queensland In Austria, the Bahnpost (Austria) [de] (1850–2004)...
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Italy, and Denmark. The railway also owns an ex Southern Railways travelling post office dating to the 1930s, a Victorian era Great Northern Railway parcels...
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General Post Office, a colonial-era building situated on 141 King William Street on the north-west corner of King William Street and Victoria Square,...
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The Annandale Post Office (postcode: 2038) is a post office located at 115-117 Booth Street, on the junction with Johnston Street, in Annandale, a suburb...
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Sandgate Post Office is a heritage-listed former post office at 1 Bowser Parade, Sandgate, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed in...
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The Post Office Gallery is a university art gallery in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. The former Ballarat Post Office is located on the corner of Sturt...
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