travelling post office
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[edit]Noun
[edit]travelling post office (plural travelling post offices)
- (rail transport, UK) A type of railway coach designed for the carriage and sorting of mail en route.
- 1945 November and December, “Return of the T.P.O.”, in Railway Magazine, pages 311–312:
- One of the important railway facilities which disappeared on the outbreak of war was the travelling post office. […] T.P.Os. have now been resumed, with the reinstatement on October 1 of those between Euston and Aberdeen, and between Paddington and Penzanze.