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Search - AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE TRAVELLING POST OFFICE
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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE TRAVELLING POST OFFICE Author: 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 clerks who did the sorting. In 1845 the service was extended via Derby to Newcastle upon Tyne by the ... more »
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