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Fire & Ice: Hindenburg and Titanic Video Gallery
The exhibit, Fire & Ice: Hindenburg and Titanic, includes a video gallery which features historical footage and an interview with Hindenburg ground crew member Frank Ward.
• Fire & Ice: Hindenburg and Titanic >> |
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All Systems at Work
All Systems at Work, part of the Systems at Work exhibit, shows how letters, catalogs, magazines, and parcels make their way through mail centers.
• Systems at Work >> |
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Wrecks
Railway Post Office (RPO) clerks processed mail on moving train cars. It was hard and dangerous work. Railway mail cars were often placed directly behind the engine, putting clerks in danger during wrecks. Companies used wooden mail cars that were not as safe as metal cars, but were cheaper. These cars often turned into death traps after a wreck, filled with scalding water from steam engines or set ablaze when oil lamps and wood stoves tipped over or exploded on impact.
• Mail by Rail: Wrecks >> |
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Mail By Bus
Highway Post Office service was initiated in response to declining railroad traffic in the early 1940s. As the American population grew, use of the highway system grew as well, meaning fewer passengers traveled by rail. This, in turn, meant fewer trains available to carry mail in several parts of the country. The service grew very slowly at first, not really taking-off until the 1950s, when these brightly-colored buses became common sights on American highways.
• Highway Post Office Buses >> |
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Star Route Service
Independent contractors have been delivering mail to some of America’s remotest locations since the Star Route Service began in 1845. See the mule trains, boats, dog sleds, and more that contractors have used to carry the US mail with certainty, celerity, and security.
• Networking a Nation: The Star Route Service >> |
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Story Of Owney
Watch an animated video featuring the life of Owney, a mailbag-loving dog who became the mascot of the Railway Mail Service in the 1890s.
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Hovercraft: Arctic Efficient
Mail service in southwestern Alaska has continued to prove challenging to the U.S. Postal Service. Although airplanes continue to carry mail to many remote Alaskan areas, the hovercraft has proven successful in delivering more mail, more often, to the state's Yukon Tuspaquin Delta Region. This video demonstrates the service in action. |
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Delivering Justice - A U.S. Postal Inspection Service Video Series
This series of videos about efforts to stop postal scams and fraud is featured in the exhibit, Postal Inspectors: The Silent Service. |
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Protect Yourself - A U.S. Postal Inspection Service Video
This video about the U.S. Postal Inspection Service is featured in the exhibit, Postal Inspectors: The Silent Service. |
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RFD: To The Country
RFD: To the Country explores the history of Rural Free Delivery. Beginning in 1896, this service helped put rural Americans in better touch with the world.
• Reaching Rural America >> |
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RFD: The Second Century
In 1996, the National Postal Museum produced this video that celebrated the Rural Free Delivery centennial and looks at how the service works in this day and age.
• Reaching Rural America >> |
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Missing You: Letters in Wartime
This video uses snippets of letters from World War I to Desert Storm to express the essential connection of mail between military personnel and the families and friends left behind.
• Mail Call Exhibit >> |
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On The Road: Moving Mail in America's Cities
This video chronicles the use of motorized vehicles to move mail within America's towns and cities.
• On the Road Exhibit >> |
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V-Mail: New Service Speeds Mail to U.S. Troops
A short, 1944 newsreel describing V-Mail produced by the Office of War Information.
• Victory Mail >> |
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Mail By Rail
Mail By Rail filmed in 1993, is the story of the Railway Post Office clerks, as told by four ex RPO clerks, Tom Clifton, Harold Coffman, Winston Lark and Don Shenefelt.
• Mail by Rail Exhibit >>
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