mailsorting

44 photos tagged mailsorting, from 3 members of Flickr Commons.

When were these photos taken?

4
1910
2008

 

Where were these photos tagged?

None of these photos are geotagged.

Tags that often appear on the same photos:

Members using this tag

Photos

Photos tagged mailsorting:

Loading photos…

See more on flickr.com →

Recent uploads

The last upload was 28 April.

Conversations

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

N. Y. Post Office -- assorting [i.e., sorting] mail (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

26_0074826 Rohr Collection Image

from SDASM Archives

  • Chuck Walla said:
    This is like a railroad siding. Those wheeled conveyor things drop off and park.

26_0074831 Rohr Collection Image

from SDASM Archives

  • Chuck Walla said:
    Reminds me of "Naming of the Parts," by Henry Reed.

    Guess: this is a bidders' tour. People who are interested in bidding on whatever postal contract is being let attend this in order to construct costs and a timeline.

    The wheeled conveyor parts look like something built by an aerospace company. Some public news articles suggest Pitney-Bowes and Lockheed were awarded contracts by the Postal Service over the years.

    If you support this thing, you have a tough logistics problem.

    How do you make all of this work with no bar codes and no optical character recognition?