MPOS Press Release 13-0314. For immediate distribution to the Philatelic press and Internet.

TRANSIT POSTMARK COLLECTOR MAR/APR 2013

TRANSIT POSTMARK COLLECTOR Volume 64, No. 3

In News from the Cities, David Gentry writes about a Philadelphia cover with two special delivery stamps and strikes of two different Philadelphia & Germantown RPO markings.

Will Keller's column consists of three photographs of HPO busses.

Sidney Fingerhood writes about songs the road clerks would sometimes sing in the cars.

Vice president Rick Kunz tells about how he used to speed the mail by bending the rules a little, when he worked for the Post Office.

There is Society news, a mail sale and much more!

Mobile Post Office Society, founded in 1950, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the study of enroute distribution of mail, emphasizing postal history of the USA but including information and study of operations from all countries of the world. Interested collectors can receive a sample copy of the award-winning periodical "Transit Postmark Collector" for $2.00 postpaid, and/or a membership application by writing to Doug Clark, PO Box 427, Marstons Mills MA 02648 or by email to Doug.

For additional information contact MPOS Publicity Director at the MPOS Home Page