Help With Triangular Marking On Postcard.

An interesting journey!!

Since the ebay links will soon go dead, for long-term reference, here are the mail pieces in the posts by Redarmy1 and vayolene:

John Becker Thanks for posting them. I was working on them to do the same thing.

I don't know how many times find a reference to an old thread here for information and I am always amazed at the sheer amount of information and photos that are attached to them. Realizing that members of this forum are basically posting them for posterity.

Bravo!
If I can prolong the agony a little longer Vayolene's example.
Any members familiar with the Taxe strike, 1d I.S. / A (Aberdeenshire?)
Scot or Brit?

Not listed in J.T. Whitney or Billigs Vols #34 Part l, or Vol 35 Part ll

Interestingly, I can find no reference to the "Scotch Railway Postal Division"
the term seems immediately to provide angst to our Northern neighbours,
"Scotch being a drink and Scot being a person from Scotland"

and, which threw us off track in the first instance.

Only reference I could find of the word, SCOTCH was Hansard 5th May 1871

Post Office—The Scotch Mails

Question

THE DUKE OF SUTHERLAND
asked Her Majesty's Government, How it is proposed to convey the mails beyond Inverness, the Post Office having given notice that after the 31st of May the mail trains north of that town would not be required?

THE MARQUESS OF LANSDOWNE
said, the mails would be conveyed as parcels by such passenger trains as were available for their conveyance—the plan of subsidizing the railway having proved too unremunerative to admit of continuance. If any inconvenience arose, the Post Office would be prepared to put a train on on Sundays.

THE DUKE OF RICHMOND
pointed out the risk which would be incurred if the mails were sent as parcels by passenger train, since valuable documents were now transmitted by post. He believed the real cause of the change was the dissatisfaction which the Highland Railway Company felt at being only paid 1s. 1d. per mile for the trains that were placed at the disposal of the Post Office and their efforts to get that sum increased. He urged that the matter should be referred to arbitration, and hoped the Post Office would make some other arrangement than that which the noble Marquess had proposed; because to go back to the old system of coaches would be a retrograde movement.

THE MARQUESS OF LANSDOWNE
said, he regretted that any part of the United Kingdom should suffer from want of postal communication; but he wished to explain that there was no falling back to the old system in the arrangements which had been made. Instead of the Post Office paying a sum to the company for the right of making mail trains run at particular hours, the mails would be sent forward by passenger trains as parcels. This was a system in practice in many parts of the country, and there could be no difficulty in securing the safety of the mails, for which the Post Office officials would be responsible.

House adjourned at Eight o'clock, to Monday next, Eleven o'clock.

Thank you Scot
Completely missed that.