There have been several types of Mobile Post Office, providing a postal service (and formerly telegraph and telephone services) in locations where a permanent or static office was/is uneconomic or impracticable. Temporary Post Offices were used to replace bomb-damaged POs during the Second World War, while currently Mobile POs are being used in rural locations as one of the "Outreach" services replacing some closed PO branches.
A third category comprises the temporary services provided from specially constructed vehicles, at agricultural shows and other events, using distinctive MOBILE POST OFFICE datestamps. The British Postmark Society has just embarked on a project to list all the known events and locations served by these Mobile POs.
MOBILE POST OFFICES LISTINGS: Section 1947
to 1955.
This is in the form of an Excel file (MPOs
1947-1955.xls) which is a draft version.
You are invited to download it from the Downloads page and add details of postmarks used, registration labels
used, and corrections to the listings, preferably in red, and email them to BPS@mapsforsale.co.uk together with scans of the covers or postmarks
(preferably in the form *.jpg, but *.bmp is acceptable). If you do this, you will receive a copy of
the “final” draft before publication, again as an Excel file, plus copies of
the pre-war and post-1955 listings.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Page updated 19th March 2010.
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