Mail exchange on the fly

Mail exchange on the fly

By Angela Cotey | April 24, 2023

| Last updated on August 7, 2025


A clerk tosses two mail delivery pouches out the door of his speeding Railway Post Office car while simultaneously keeping the catcher arm raised in preparation for snagging outbound mail. This is on the Boston & Maine in the late 1940s. Edward J. Howard Jr. photo

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