Talk:Catcher pouch

The content of Mail hook was merged into Catcher pouch on 14 June 2020. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists. For the discussion at that location, see its talk page.

A fact from Catcher pouch appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 October 2012. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that throughout U.S. history, different types of mail bags have been called mail pouch, mail sack, mail satchel, catcher pouch, mochila saddle mailbag (pictured), and portmanteau depending on form, function, place and time?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Did you know archive/2012/October. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Mail bag, Mail sack, Mail satchel, Mail pouch, Catcher pouch, Pony Express mochila, Portmanteau (mail).

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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)[reply]

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)[reply]