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Moving the Mail : Mail by Rail : Inside the Railway Mail Car

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From the 1870s-1940s, trains moved most of America's mail. The closer a post office was to the train station, the faster mail could be moved.
Clerks inside a post office dragging sacks of mail to be loaded onto a train bound for Wichita, Kansas










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