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Post by Ted Talks Stamps on Dec 21, 2022 21:12:41 GMT
After WWII, as rail travel (and the railroad post offices) were in decline, the post office experimented with using flying post offices in a similar manner as RPO's. However, the difficulty of workers maintaining their balance in a flying plane, combined with the shorter travel times, which meant not enough work was accomplished to make it worthwhile, led to the post office scrapping the idea. Here is a cover commemorating the first experimental FPO flight by TWA.
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Post by ClassicPhilatelist on Dec 25, 2022 1:34:49 GMT
I cannot fathom how that would possibly work. But amusing they tried.
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Post by cddstamps on Dec 25, 2022 1:50:06 GMT
not unlike the UK where we had TPOs, on trains .... pretty bumpy ride, both plane and train back then one might think. source Google..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 to the earlier days of the railway, the first ever postal movement by rail being performed by the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR) on 11 November 1830. The Railways (Conveyance of Mails) Act 1838 obligated railway companies to carry mail, and thus specialised stock was quickly provided; the first true TPO emerged that same year. Further innovations followed, such as the development of lineside apparatus for picking up and setting down mailbags while underway, and the use of dedicated mail trains. By 1914, there were 126 TPO carriages in operation throughout the United Kingdom, while numerous other nations had adopted the concept, wholly or in part, as well.
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