On Track : Railway Mail Service In Canada

O'Reilly, Susan McLeod

Ottawa, ON, 1992

By National Postal Museum, Canadian Museum Of Civilization, Canada Post Corporation
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Details

Card covers, 151 pages, 7x10 in., [17.5x25.5 cm.], B&W photographs.
Condition

Covers slightly age-tanned.
Notes

A history of the Railway Mail Service in Canada written for both general readers and philatelists. Susan McLeod O'Reilly examines the development and operation of railway mail service within the broader history of postal communication, with chapters on mail car operations, sorting and cancelling procedures, railway postal markings, forms, catchposts, and Royal Train mail. Also discusses the work, training, and daily life of railway mail clerks aboard the travelling post office cars.

Notes adapted from the publisher's description.
ISBN

9780660140056
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