Motorcycle pilots are the most preferred mode of public transport in Goa. Painted black and yellow like auto-rickshaws or taxis, these two-wheeler motorcycle pilots have their history since the Portuguese rule in Goa.
J. W. Westcott II is a boat known for its conveyance of mail to ships while they are in progress. It is an authorized U.S. Postal Service mail boat and furthermore the world's memorable non-military drifting postal ZIP code — 48222. The mail is delivered to the appropriate ships transiting the Detroit River, utilizing ropes and buckets.
Distance : Heuchlingen to Hohlenstein (28 KM) [ GERMANY]
Date : 01.09.1996
Released on the occasion of the 150th Birth Aniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, this special cover commemorates the second phase of Harijan Padyatra Gandhiji from the Byree Railway Station, Jajpur District, Odisha. The mail was carried by Bhadrak-Cuttack Passsenger Train.
This Special Cover released on November 30, 2021 (GOAPEX 2021), by the Goa Postal Division enacted the famous Tin Can Mail of the Niuafo'ou, an isolated Island in the Pacific. Here the swimmers collected mails in sealed tins swimming out to the passing ship. The service got popular and got the name TIN CAN MAIL.
Goa Postal Department did this Tin Can Mail Experiment from the town of Ribandar to Piedade, an island village over the river Mandovi. This mail was carried out with the help of River Navigation Department, Goa.
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DATE OF ISSUE: 27.09.1984
COUNTRY: ST JOHN, ANTIGUA & BARBUDA |
