If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
|
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Cunard Ships Install Royal Red Mailboxes
To Whom It May Concern:
We came across this information in the trades and thought it would be of interest to this newsgroup as well. Happy sailing, John Sisker, SHIP-TO-SHORE CRUISE AGENCY® (714) 536-3850 or toll free at (800) 724-6644 & (pagoo ID: 714.536.3850) www.shiptoshorecruise.com Cunard Line has installed traditional bright red Royal Mail postboxes on the Queen Elizabeth 2 and Queen Mary 2. Passengers can post their mail in the boxes, which also serve as a reminder that Cunard was the first provider of transatlantic mail service between England and America. The postboxes recall Samuel Cunard's successful bid on the rights to the first transatlantic mail shipping contract. Winning the bid entitled his company, the British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (later known as Cunard Line), to use RMS, or Royal Mail Ship, as a prefix to the ships' names. On the Queen Mary 2, the newly installed postbox is located outside the Golden Lion Pub. Stamps, including an exclusive QM2 stamp available only onboard, can be purchased at the Pursers Desk. The ship's cancellation mark appears on mail dropped into the Royal Mail postbox. On the Queen Elizabeth 2, the Royal Mail postbox is located just outside the library on Quarter Deck. For more information, call 800-7-CUNARD or visit www.cunard.com. |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
A Royal for President of France? | Gregory Morrow | Europe | 1 | May 14th, 2006 11:23 AM |
Cunard Unique Entertainment Initiatives! | Ray Goldenberg | Cruises | 0 | October 28th, 2005 01:57 PM |
Royal Caribbean Offers Irresistible Tastes of Europe! | Ray Goldenberg | Cruises | 0 | April 29th, 2004 03:47 PM |
Mariner of the Seas Delivered! | Ray Goldenberg | Cruises | 1 | October 29th, 2003 02:39 PM |
Royal Caribbean Financials! | Ray Goldenberg | Cruises | 0 | October 27th, 2003 01:20 PM |