roy

I was putting this cover into my weekly ebay sales, and I thought, "This would make an interesting discussion".

I invite others to join this thread with examples to add to the theme.

1909 Great Britain to Manchuria in 16 days via Trans-Siberian Railroad




Dairen (under Japanese control after the Sino-Russian War of 1905) was renamed Dalian under the Chinese. It is just across the gulf, to the east, of Tianjin on this map (near Beijing).



I think the secret to this kind of rapid movement is to just keep it moving, rather than get a letter held up in some massive sorting center. It almost doesn't matter the speed of the movement, it just has to keep moving in the right direction.

Roy

 
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