postal

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

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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

Photograph of airmail pilot Paul Collins and bag of first overnight airmail

from Smithsonian Institution

  • TVL1970 said:
    The name in the caption is incorrect. The name of the pilot is aviator and renown air mail pilot Paul F.Collins (b. 1891 - d. 1971 ). Collins' nickname was "Dog." Collins would later go on to work at Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT), TAT successor TWA, and Northeast Airlines. See: www.aviationhalloffamewisconsin.com/inductees/collins.htm

Postal Telegraph

from SDASM Archives

  • angloburmeselibrary said:
    Rangoon Telegraph Office