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Delivering the mail by bicycle
Carriers
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Delivering the mail by bicycle
Some carriers chose bicycles to help speed their travel time.
Lieutenant Webb and the first day of airmail
Airmail
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Lieutenant Webb and the first day of airmail
On May 15, 1918, the United States officially established airmail service between New York, Philadelphia and Washington, DC.
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Sorting mail on the first Highway Post Office bus
Two clerks sort mail inside the bus that ran between Washington, DC, and Harrisonburg, Virginia.
President Roosevelt mails a letter on a bus
Mail by road
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President Roosevelt mails a letter on a bus
Franklin D. Roosevelt deposits a letter into the mail slot of the first Highway Post Office bus in 1941.
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Airmail plane 38262 takes off on the first day
A Curtiss Jenny leaves Washington, DC, on May 15, 1918, the first day of scheduled airmail service.
Inside a Boston mail streetcar
Mail by rail
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Inside a Boston mail streetcar
The interior of a Boston mail streetcar equipped with a canceling machine, about 1899.