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Customers and Communities : Serving the Cities : Carriers & Mail Delivery : Pneumatic Tube Mail

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Pneumatic tubes were placed in the basement facilities of post offices, where clerks worked around the clock to fill and send, open and empty the tube containers.
Photograph of pneumatic tubes and machinery in post office basement










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