Mail bag

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A '''mail bag''' or '''mailbag''' can be one of several types of bags used for collecting or carrying different types of postal material.<ref name= "National Postal Museum">{{cite journal |url=http://postalmuseum.si.edu/museum/1d_BagPrototype.html |journal=Former Object of the Month |title=Prototype Mail Pouch |author1-link=Allison Marsh |first1=Allison |last1=Marsh |date=March 2006 |publisher=National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution |access-date=August 15, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111117181409/https://postalmuseum.si.edu/museum/1d_BagPrototype.html |archive-date=November 17, 2011 |url-status= dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Küskü |first=Fırat |date=2023-01-01 |title=Osmanlı Devleti'nde Posta Çantaları / Mail Bags in the Ottoman Empire |url=https://www.academia.edu/106029410 |journal=Osmanli'dan Cumhuri̇yet'e Posta Tari̇hi̇}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist|30em}}

==Further reading== *{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/stream/storyofourpostof00cush/storyofourpostof00cush_djvu.txt |last1=Cushing |first1=Marshall |title=The Story of Our Post Office: The Greatest Government Department in all its Phases |location=Boston, Massachusetts |publisher=A.M. Thayer & Co |year=1893 |via=Internet Archive}} * {{cite book |last1=Melius |first1=Louis |url=https://archive.org/stream/americanpostalse00melirich/americanpostalse00melirich_djvu.txt |title=The American postal service: history of the postal service from the earliest times. The American system described with full details of operation |publisher=National Capital Press |year=1917 |location=Washington, D.C. |access-date=August 15, 2012 |via=Internet Archive}}

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