BOITES MOBILES (mobile boxes) were letter boxes attached to public cars, stagecoaches or railway wagons on secondary lines. When the mail arrived in front of a post office on its route, the box was unhooked the box from the car and brought it inside the office to be opened by a sworn postal agent. At each stop, mail could be dropped off or collected. This service was set up by the Postal Administration for poorly served localities. To do this, it entered into mail transport contracts with various concessionaires. If these boxes had not been emptied, they were taken to the postal official who was the only person authorized to open them. As early as 1862, mail that was placed in a mobile box was affixed with a specific postal mark. From 1867 the letters BM surrounded by an oval were affixed to mail left in mobile boxes. It was generally black in color but is also found in blue and red. The BM stamp was used until 1900. It is not rare in black. It very rarely cancelled the postage stamp. A BM stamp framed by a rectangle was also used in Algeria.
Bonmal Lamourade & Cie 19e 5 à NIMES DRESST BR GUIN (281) RECTO: Posted: Railway cachet Bt-P La lettre a été posté à la station-convoyeur de la ligne BR. GUIN (BREST à GUINGAMP) VERSO: Ambulant cachet: PARIS à AUXERRE A (night) -/11/72 Received: NÎMES 3/11/72 REPUBLIC FRANÇAISE Gros lisat sujet Heels U à R T. III gce coureyeur station ligne 199 Monsieur Gérard & fils construction et fandeur Cher A Vierz DIEP R 71 RECTO: Posted: Railway cachet UNCLEAR La lettre a été posté à la station-convoyeur de la ligne DIEPPE R (DIEPPE à ROUEN) VERSO: Ambulant cachet: LE HAVRE à PARIS E (day) 25/5/75 Received: PARIS RECETTE PRINCIPALE DE la SEINE (60) 25/5/75 Received: PARIS GARE d'ORLÉANS 25/5/75 Received: ?VIERZUN 26/5/75
Anyhtere Messrs Allen, Hambury & Barry Plough Court Lombard Street E 4 London E.C. JOHN STUART MILL (20 May 1806 – 7 May 1873) was an English philosopher, political economist, politician and civil servant. One of the most influential thinkers in the history of classical liberalism, he contributed widely to social theory, political theory, and political economy. Dubbed "the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century" by the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, he conceived of liberty as justifying the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state and social control. Mill was a proponent of utilitarianism, an ethical theory developed by his predecessor Jeremy Bentham. He contributed to the investigation of scientific methodology, though his knowledge of the topic was based on the writings of others, notably William Whewell, John Herschel, and Auguste Comte, and research carried out for Mill by Alexander Bain. He engaged in written debate with Whewell. A member of the Liberal Party and author of the early feminist work The Subjection of Women, Mill was also the second member of Parliament to call for women's suffrage after Henry Hunt in 1832.
