An Illustrated History of the Travelling Post Office by Peter Johnson

An Illustrated History of the Travelling Post Office

Peter Johnson

144 pages first pub 2009 (view editions)

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Mail was first sorted on a moving train in a converted horse box on the Grand Junction Railway, between Liverpool and Manchester, in January 1838 at the suggestion of Frederick Karstadt, a Post Office surveyor. Karstadt's son was one of two mail c...

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