Talk:Railway post office

Merge with Travelling Post Office?
I just found the Travelling Post Office article describing basically the same type of equipment as used in the United Kingdom. I think a merge would be in order, but under which name? slambo 11:28, July 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Perhaps merger of the RPO and TPO pages is now a moot point, since it is 4 months past the date of the original discussions. If a merge is still under consideration, I believe that separate articles would better serve the subjects at hand.  RPOs and TPOs do share many common characteristics, but the developmental history for the North American and the European versions were unique, and it would seem difficult to properly cover that diversity in a merged article.  Cross linking the two pages under the "see also" mechanism should be sufficient. RI-Bill 04:42, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

GA Re-Review and In-line citations
Members of the WikiProject Good articles are in the process of doing a re-review of current Good Article listings to ensure compliance with the standards of the Good Article Criteria. (Discussion of the changes and re-review can be found here). A significant change to the GA criteria is the mandatory use of some sort of in-line citation (In accordance to WP:CITE) to be used in order for an article to pass the verification and reference criteria. Currently this article does not include in-line citations. It is recommended that the article's editors take a look at the inclusion of in-line citations as well as how the article stacks up against the rest of the Good Article criteria. GA reviewers will give you at least a week's time from the date of this notice to work on the in-line citations before doing a full re-review and deciding if the article still merits being considered a Good Article or would need to be de-listed. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us on the Good Article project talk page or you may contact me personally. On behalf of the Good Articles Project, I want to thank you for all the time and effort that you have put into working on this article and improving the overall quality of the Wikipedia project. LuciferMorgan 00:29, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:OP-19515.jpg
Image:OP-19515.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to ensure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.

If there is other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page. Note that any fair use images lacking such an explanation can be deleted one week after being tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.

BetacommandBot (talk) 14:57, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Proposed merge with Mail hook

 * This is a minor mechanical feature that is intrinsic to the Railway post office's function. ww2censor (talk) 10:33, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Merge by making Mail hook a section of Railway post office. Mail hook would become a redirect specifically to that new secion like Railway post office. Peter Horn User talk 22:54, 7 November 2019 (UTC)
 * A better target would be the more specific Catcher pouch; the mail hook is necessary for the catcher pouch to work, and the catcher pouch page already contains material related to the hook, including an illustration of it. Klbrain (talk) 21:46, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Sound like an even better idea. Go ahead. ww2censor (talk) 22:14, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅ Klbrain (talk) 08:49, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

Proposed merge of Catcher pouch into Railway post office
I do not see why this article needs to exist. It is a mail bag. The notable concept (mail by train, and the concept of having a train grab and drop off mail on the fly) is covered sufficiently within the railway post office article.

This is a special case, as the catcher pouch article is the work of an editor indeffed for copyright violations. If we merge anything to the target article, it will need to be rewritten or very carefully screened for copyright violations. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 02:26, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
 * At Didcot Railway Centre, every few months they demonstrate mail bag exchange using TPO stowage van no. 814. Having watched this a few times - and also worked in the mailroom of a local business - I can say that the pouches used are not standard mailbags: they are smaller and much stronger. A normal mailbag, if mis-caught, could tear and distribute letters around the area. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 17:02, 24 April 2024 (UTC)