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Folder title: "History of the Railway Mail Service" Washington, D.C.: U.S. Post Office Dept. c. 1932
Date: 09/26/1932
Description:Excerpt taken from data placed in cornerstone of new Post Office Department building, September 26 1932.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Excerpts
Folder number:05-06-01
Subject(s): Railway Mail Service ; History - Postal
Original source:Post Office Department
Folder title: 175.5 Highway Post Office
Date: 01/27/1941
Description:Discussion of how to obtain and rules for First Day Covers for the initial run of Highway Post Offices around the country.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Articles
Folder number:03-07-15
Subject(s): Highway Post Office ; Covers
Folder title: Canal Zone Cancellation - Discontinuation of Railway Mail Service
Date: 05/17/1954
Description:Information about the reestablishment of Railway Mail Service for one day in Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the completion of the Panama Railroad.
Collection:Panama
Includes:Circulars ; Press Releases ; Memorandums
Folder number:30-03-161
Subject(s): Press Releases ; Cancellations ; Covers
Folder title: Centennial of First U.S. Railway Postal Car - 7/28/62
Date: 07/19/1962
Description:Drafts and copies of speeches to celebrate the Centennial of the first U.S. Railway Postal Car in Hannibal, Missouri.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Speeches ; Posters ; Memorandums
Folder number:02-04-05
Subject(s): Railway Mail Service ; Speeches ; Posters
Original source:Post Office Department
Folder title: Draft Release - Santa Fe Railway 4/69
Date: 04/16/1969
Description:Correspondence and brochures pertaining to the Super C railway mail service serving the cities of Chicago, Kansas City, Amarillo and Los Angeles.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Memorandums ; Brochures
Folder number:01-07-38
Subject(s): Railway Mail Service ; Railroad Routes
Folder title: HPO and RPO Covers
Date: 07/07/1960
Description:Correspondence on the last and first day cancellations of Highway Post Offices and Railroad Mail Service.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence
Folder number:03-04-13
Subject(s): Highway Postal Service ; Railroad Mail Service
Folder title: Operations 3 Texarkana, Texas
Date: 05/14/1965
Description:Materials on Texarkana, Texas post office. Specifically related to the effect on postal employees with the termination on the railway mail by the Post Office Department.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Memorandums
Folder number:02-03-22
Subject(s): Postal Service ; Railway Mail Service
Original source:Post Office Department
Folder title: Oregon Magazine
Date: 07/01/1985
Description:Re-enacting the trail that sent the men who committed the crime known as the "Last Great Western Train Robbery."
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles
Folder number:05-07-36
Subject(s): Railway Mail Service
Original source:Oregon Magazine
Folder title: P. 1. Events Special Pony Express Runs, Airline and Rail Runs
Description:Correspondence requesting a re-enactment of the Pony Express. Pony Express routes that were requested to re-enacted were: Wausau, Nebraska to Yanton, South Dakota; Wasua, Nebraska to Pierce, Nebraska, Canaan, Indiana to Madison, Dodge to Howelle, Nebraska. Also requests from reporters to board and ride a railway post office. Approval and denial correspondence letters for the above requests are also contained in this file.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Memorandums
Folder number:02-02-10
Subject(s): Postal Service ; Railway Mail Service
Original source:Post Office Department
Folder title: P. 1. History Railroads
Date: 01/08/1967
Description:Newspaper articles depicting the history of the railroad and its connection with the Post Office Department, much of the material is in relation to the elimination of railway mail.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles
Folder number:02-02-21
Subject(s): Railway Mail Service ; History - Postal
Original source:Milwaukee Journal St. Paul Pioneer Press
Folder title: P.1. Congressional Letters 1967-1968
Date: 05/10/1966
Description:Congressional letters - queries regarding the Post Office Department service of parcels to soldiers in Vietnam and the curtailing of the railway service.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence
Folder number:01-07-23
Subject(s): Postal Service ; Railway Mail Service
Original source:Post Office Department Congress
Folder title: P.1. Press Interviews 1968
Date: 01/04/1966
Description:Letters and copies of interviews from postal employees to various forms of media. Some examples of interviews are from. Forbes Magazine, Modern Railroad magazine, Industrial Research magazine, Associated Press. A transcript from an interview deals with issues of 3rd class mail.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Copies of Interviews
Folder number:02-02-03
Subject(s): Public Relations - Customer Relations ; Postal Service - Employees
Original source:Post Office Department
Folder title: P.1. Press Queries 1968
Date: 12/29/1967
Description:Letters pertaining to interview requests to the Post Office Department from various media: Aviation Daily, Aviation week and Space Technology, New York Times, American Newspaper and Magazine Publisher's Association.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence
Folder number:02-02-02
Subject(s): Public Relations - Customer Relations ; Postal Service - Employees
Original source:Post Office Department
Folder title: Railroad Strike - July 1967
Date: 07/13/1967
Description:Railroads no longer want to carry mail. Also a discussion of the use of the phrase "junk mail" by the Post Master General.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Memorandums ; Press Releases
Folder number:02-01-25
Subject(s): Railway Mail Service ; Postal Service - Strikes and Lockouts ; Public Relations - Press Releases
Folder title: Railway Mail Service - Streetcar Service
Date: 01/01/1885
Description:History of Railway Mail Service, copies of photographs and articles of Streetcar Mail Service
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles
Folder number:05-07-33
Subject(s): Railway Mail Service ; History - Postal
Original source:Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Company
Folder title: RR Maps
Date: 06/01/1960
Description:Maps show railroad development from 1830.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Maps
Folder number:05-03-05
Subject(s): Railroad Routes
Folder title: Trans "Freight" Trains -Term Change
Date: 12/21/1966
Description:Passenger train discontinuance for mail delivery to "fast freight trains" created a problem.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Memorandums
Folder number:02-01-33
Subject(s): Railway Mail Service
Folder title: Trans 14 Railroads (General)
Date: 09/16/1962
Description:The decline in railroad mail transportation. Correspondence from the Canada Post Office about a pending railroad strike.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Memorandums ; Articles ; Press Releases
Folder number:03-01-07
Subject(s): Railway Mail Service ; Public Relations - Press Releases
Folder title: Trans 14.1 News Stories (miscellaneous)
Date: 07/30/1964
Description:Post Office Department memoranda on the ever declining number of passenger trains used for the transpiration of mail. Correspondence with complain about service.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Memorandums ; Correspondence ; Articles
Folder number:03-01-01
Subject(s): Railway Mail Service ; Postal Service
Folder title: Trans 18 Railroad Strikes (General)
Date: 07/10/1963
Description:Deals with strikes in the U.S. and foreign countries delaying transportation of mail as well as potential strikes that could effect the mail.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Articles ; Memorandums ; Press Releases
Folder number:03-01-02
Subject(s): Railway Mail Service ; Postal Service - Strikes and Lockouts
Folder title: Trans Association of American Railroads
Date: 04/02/1968
Description:Regarding meetings between Post Office Department executives and members of the Association of American Railroads to improve the ever deteriorating railroad mail transportation service.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Press Releases
Folder number:03-01-08
Subject(s): Railway Mail Service ; Public Relations - Press Releases
Original source:Post Office Department
Folder title: Trans Decline of Passenger Train Service
Date: 01/06/1968
Description:Post Office Department statistics on the sharp decline of passenger train service and with it mail transportation.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Memorandums
Folder number:02-01-34
Subject(s): Railway Mail Service
Original source:Post Office Department
Folder title: Trans New Orleans, LA 4/1/65
Date: 03/05/1965
Description:A statement by John A. Gronouski, before the House Post Office and Civil Service Committee March 11, 1965, remarks by Frederick Bartus concerning the centennial of railway mail. A large amount of material in this file contains information on a Chamber of Commerce Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana attended by William Hartigan in 1965
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Testimonies ; Memorandums ; Correspondence ; Speeches
Folder number:02-04-09
Subject(s): Postal Service - Law and Legislation ; Speeches ; Railway Mail Service
Folder title: Trans. 1 Gen. Correspondence 1965
Date: 03/10/1965
Description:General administrative correspondence.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Memorandums
Folder number:02-06-30
Subject(s): Postal Service ; Administration
Original source:Post Office Department
Folder title: Trans. 1 Gen. Correspondence 1968
Date: 02/02/1968
Description:General administrative Correspondence.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Memorandums
Folder number:02-06-33
Subject(s): Administration
Original source:Post Office Department
Folder title: Trans. 6-4 Air Taxi - Publicity
Date: 12/28/1967
Description:Articles about the air taxi service carrying mail.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles ; Correspondence
Folder number:02-07-16
Subject(s): Air mail service
Original source:Post Office Department
Folder title: Transportation Katty Railroad
Date: 05/06/1964
Description:Use of the railroad between Dallas and San Antonio, Texas to carry mail. Switched from railroad to truck service saving money and faster delivery.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Press Releases ; Brochures
Folder number:02-01-23
Subject(s): Railway Mail Service ; Public Relations - Press Releases
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