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A Seapost was a mail
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aboard an ocean-going vessel wherein international exchange mail was distributed. The first American service of this type was the U.S.-German Seapost, which began operating in 1891 on the S.S. Havel
North German Lloyd Line
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. The service rapidly expanded with routes to
Great Britain
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South America
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, and
Asia
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. The Seapost service still employed fifty-five clerks in early 1941. The last route of this type (to South America) was terminated October 19, 1941, due to unsafe wartime conditions on the
Atlantic Ocean
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. The few remaining Seapost clerks transferred to branches of the
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(RMS). Seapost operations for the US
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were supervised from a
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, office.
Seapost offices were also operated by the postal authorities of
France
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, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan and New Zealand.
Boyce, Virginia
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. Available as an MS Word file at http://www.railwaymailservicelibrary.org/articles/THE_RMS.DOC
* United States Sea Post Cancellations Part 1 ''Transatlantic Routes'', Edited by Philip Cockrill, Cockrill Series Booklet No 54
* ''Seaposts of the USA'' by Roger Hosking, Published by the TPO & Seapost Society, September 2008