US Mail: from past to present

This year marks the US mail 237 years. We offer you a short trip, the length of a couple of centuries. This photo galleries you will see a kind of comparison of postal services, past and present.

Postal vans near one of the post offices in 1909.





These are the vans now near one of the post offices in San Francisco.



In front of you and not so distant past. Mail delivery to the sleigh, Berlin, New Hampshire, in 1950.



No sled in 2002. Simple pram from the postman in New York.



At Christmas, the work is always added. Mail delivery in New York, in 1955.



Pick yourself. There too, but in 2012, the year.



Village postman in the suburbs of Jackson, Kentucky, in 1940.



Segways are used almost in San Francisco for over ten years.



Stamping machine, 1907.



Automated sending mail in a post office in New York, in 2009.



Sort the main post office of Pennsylvania, 1915.



The same sort at the post office «Lincoln Park Carriers Annex», Chicago, 2012.



Mail delivery in rural York County, Maine, in 1930.



Similar operations January 16, 2013 in Nassau, New York.



Japanese-Americans receive the parcel in the department «Puyallup Assembly Center» Washington, 1942.



Break sorting mail in the department «Ewell», Smith Island, Maryland, in 2011.



The work of the post office in Washington, DC, 1920.



Mail on the conveyor logistics and distribution center in Elk Grove Village, Chicago, Illinois, in 2012.



US soldier writes a letter to the period of the Spanish-American War, 1898.



US Army Corporal writes a letter home with a base Al Asad, Iraq, in 2004.



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