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46 photos and 1 illustration tagged postal, from 8 members of Flickr Commons.

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• mail
• smithsonianinstitution
• nationalpostalmuseum
• mailacrossthecommons
• post
• postoffice
• usmail
• usps
• delivery
• xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11
• men
• work
• letter
• blackandwhite
• man
• uniform
• libraryofcongress
• hat
• working
• airmail
• aviation
• standing
• woman
• mailbox

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• Smithsonian Institution 28 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 6 photos & illustrations
• Navy Medicine 5 photos & illustrations
• SDASM Archives 4 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Australia 1 photo / illustration
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 1 photo / illustration
• Powerhouse Museum 1 photo / illustration
• British Library 1 photo / illustration

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Photograph of letter carriers in Concord, New Hampshire

from Smithsonian Institution

• David J Quinn said:

  Fantastic, thank you for sharing this. i am a Postman in Salford England and have been for over thirty years, i find all shots of old postmen and anything to do with post fascinating. many thanks keep up the fantastic work you do.

• hanulnala275 said:

  postman? it's interesting

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

Photograph of Railway Mail Service clerks in Kansas City, Missouri

from Smithsonian Institution

• hanulnala275 said:

  though this was taken with negative film it's very vivid on my eyes!