Talk:Catcher pouch

United Kingdom catcher pouch

United Kingdom catcher pouch?

Would this United Kingdom train apparatus qualify as a catcher pouch from Travelling Post Offices in the United Kingdom? If so, then it is not a unique mail bag used only by the United States Railway Post Office. The article says in the History section: The first special postal train was operated by the Great Western Railway between London and Bristol. The inaugural train ran on 1 February 1855, leaving Paddington station at 20:46, and arriving at Bristol at 00:30. In 1866, apparatus for picking up and setting down mailbags without stopping was installed at Slough and Maidenhead.

Whichever way you would like to leave the article is alright with me, but it does look like a global method used in the ninteenth century.--Doug Coldwell ^talk 17:57, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

So fix it. The article as I found it said "A catcher pouch was a unique mail bag used only by the Railway Post Office of the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century." Since the article Railway Post Office is exclusively about a particular entity in the United States, and sources cited did not mention the use of this system elsewhere, I concluded that first sentence was intended to describe this as a system unique to the United States Railway Post Office. If the sentence (created by Doug Coldwell) whose meaning I clarified was inaccurate, don't blame me! --Orlady (talk) 19:10, 21 September 2012 (UTC)