Last trip
(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Sept. 5. New Zealand’s last Railway Travelling Post Office has made its final trip from Auckland to Wellington. The R.T.P.O. was a railway carriage used as a mobile sorting room for the distribution and collection of mail at centres between Auckland and Wellington. The service has been discontinued because the volume of mail is now too great, and because the new Silver Star express, is not designed to have a travelling post office. Hauled by the main trunk express, the last R.T.P.O. left Auckland on Saturday, tralling paper streamers.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32704, 6 September 1971, Page 1
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