Mobile post office

Via Rail provides courier/mail service, VIAPAQ Courier, at select train stations in Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.

As more postal facilities were set up across the island, the mobile post offices were no longer needed to serve customers in rural areas and were eventually withdrawn from service in 1980.

[3] The United Kingdom pioneered the modern use of what it calls a travelling post office (TPO), a railway service that operated for the first time in 1838.

Mobile post offices were first introduced in 1936 to provide telegraph, telephone and postal services at special events such as race meetings and shows.

The boat services were first available for inland waterways, beginning in 1857, and subsequently ocean routes to Puerto Rico, Canal Zone, and from Seattle to Alaska.

According to the Universal Postal Union (UPU) database, other countries with mobile post offices include: Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Moldova, New Caledonia, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Peru, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen, and Zimbabwe.