• Home
• Tags

mailroom

23 photos tagged mailroom, from 4 members of Flickr Commons.

When were these photos taken?

Where were these photos tagged?

None of these photos are geotagged.

Related tags

Tags that often appear on the same photos:

• mailsorting
• mail
• rohrnews
• 04081974
• rohrfactory
• smithsonianinstitution
• usps
• nationalpostalmuseum
• mailacrossthecommons
• italy
• postal
• sortingmail
• postoffice
• clerk
• work
• sorting
• workers
• men
• post
• blackandwhite
• letters
• navalhospitaljacksonville
• jacksonville
• florida

Members using this tag

• SDASM Archives 10 photos
• Navy Medicine 7 photos
• Smithsonian Institution 4 photos
• Mennonite Church USA Archives 2 photos

Conversations

Here’s a selection of the conversations happening on these photos:

26_0038858 Rohr Collection Image

from SDASM Archives

• Chuck Walla said:

  A Pitney Bowes postage metering machine used in business and non-profit mail rooms.

26_0021993 Rohr Collection Image

from SDASM Archives

• Chuck Walla said:

  There were no laser printers or PCs in 1974. Microprocessors were not yet common. No bar codes were used in the mails. There was no internet.
  
  A Pitney Bowes postal meter machine printed postage. She's writing the weight on the envelope with a pencil. The next step is to carry it to the Pitney Bowes machine and print a "metered" postage label.
  
  Addresses either were on printed labels by data processig people or handwritten.
  
  In fact, the U.S. Postal Service still used horse drawn wagons to move mail between towns. No, I'm kidding about the wagons.

Railway Post Office Clerks at Work

from Smithsonian Institution

• Adam Blankenship said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called RPO RAILWAY POST OFFICE - MAIL TRAIN, and we'd love to have this added to the group!