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Woman Working in a Mail Processing Center

from Smithsonian Institution

• JOHN LLOYD said:

  This design morphed into larger machines with more operators until Optical Character Readers made the keyer obsolete. I saw a lot of these changes from my first postal job in 1968 until I retired in 2006 (didn't work for the PO for all those years!). Tens of thousands of similar machines were scrapped over the years, many in service for very short periods. Technology moved pretty fast.

• Smithsonian Institution said:

  JOHN LLOYD Thanks for sharing a little bit of your story with The Commons on Flickr community, Hugo90! Truly deepens our perspective and enriches the experience. Sincerely, Susannah Smithsonian Institution Archives