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| Folder title: | "A Few Concrete Wrongs" |
| Date: | 12/28/1901 |
| Description: | Article about bulk mailing. "A Few Concrete Wrongs" |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Articles |
| Folder number: | 06-04-16 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service |
| Original source: | The Week |
| Folder title: | "Airmail's Amazing Growth Sets Aviation Record. "Pppular Mechanics Vol. 48, No. 6 (Dec. 1927) p. 954-55 |
| Date: | 01/01/1927 |
| Description: | Article "Air Mail's" amazing growth sets aviation record with many proposed new routes. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Articles |
| Folder number: | 05-06-05 |
| Subject(s): | Air Routes ; Air mail service |
| Original source: | Popular Mechanics |
| Folder title: | "CENTEL Information System Will Simplify Mail Forwarding" Washington Business (Washington Post) July 13, 1987 |
| Date: | 07/13/1987 |
| Description: | New contact for a mail forwarding system. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Articles |
| Folder number: | 05-06-13 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Automation |
| Original source: | Washington Post |
| Folder title: | "First Flying Truck for Overnight Air Mail" |
| Date: | 04/01/1925 |
| Description: | Magazine article concerning the acquisition of cargo airplanes for transporting mail. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Articles |
| Folder number: | 06-05-56 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service - Air Mail ; Air mail service |
| 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: | "Postal Changes Good and Bad" |
| Date: | 01/01/1901 |
| Description: | Suggestions of improvements in various mail services. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Articles |
| Folder number: | 05-07-39 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service |
| Original source: | The Week the Outlook |
| Folder title: | "Reforms in the Postal Service" |
| Date: | 09/30/1907 |
| Description: | Report of accounts regarding the business system of the Post Office Department and postal service. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Articles |
| Folder number: | 05-07-40 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service |
| Folder title: | "The Air Mail's Limitless Future" the Literary Digest. Vol LXXXVI, No. 1 (July 4, 1925) p. 67 |
| Date: | 07/04/1925 |
| Description: | Author looks forward to a limitless future for air mail. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Articles |
| Folder number: | 05-06-12 |
| Subject(s): | Air Routes ; Air mail service |
| Original source: | Literary Digest |
| Folder title: | "The Rates of Second Class Mail" |
| Date: | 01/01/1912 |
| Description: | The article describes the rates that pertain to second class mail. "The Rates on Second Class Mail." |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Articles |
| Folder number: | 06-04-18 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Postal Rates |
| Original source: | The Week |
| Folder title: | 12/21/68 - Lexington, KY. P.O. - Campbell |
| Date: | 12/31/1968 |
| Description: | Letters concerning postal service at the Lexington Post Office. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence |
| Folder number: | 02-06-07 |
| Subject(s): | Post Office Stations & Branches ; Air mail service ; Air Routes |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | 17 Philatelic Data (Scott's Nos. on Stock Sheet) |
| Date: | 09/21/1937 |
| Description: | Details of United States and foreign stamps. Scott numbers list. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Lists ; Photographs ; Correspondence |
| Folder number: | 03-07-04 |
| Subject(s): | Stamp Collecting (Philately) |
| 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: | 1802-25 Leather Mail Pouch (Photo) etc. From Western Reserve Historical Society. Photocopy of instructions to postmasters dated 01/20/1825 |
| Date: | 01/20/1825 |
| Description: | A photograph of a leather mail pouch from 1802-1825, with a photocopy of instructions to postmasters dated 01/20/1825. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Photographs ; Correspondence |
| Folder number: | 01-02-13 |
| Subject(s): | History - Postal ; Mail Service ; Postmasters |
| Original source: | Post Office Department Western Reserve Historical Society |
| Folder title: | 1859 Reproductions of Advertisements of Stage and Steamship Mail |
| Date: | 01/01/1859 |
| Description: | Advertisements for Mail Service from the Texas Almanac 1859 via: stage coach, passenger and freight train, steamship to the far west. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Advertisements |
| Folder number: | 01-02-17 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Postal Service - Transportation. |
| Original source: | Texas Almanac 1859 |
| Folder title: | 1946-47 Antartic R. E. Byrd Air Mail |
| Date: | 11/12/1946 |
| Description: | Information about Admiral Byrd and the expedition to the Antarctic. Photographs by Byrd and others on the expedition. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Press Releases ; Photographs |
| Folder number: | 05-05-01 |
| Subject(s): | Air mail service ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
| Original source: | Navy Department |
| Folder title: | 2/25-28/69 Story on AMF's - Chicago, Network, K..C. |
| Date: | 03/07/1960 |
| Description: | Material concerning the future and viability of airport Mail Facilities and a copy the Methods Handbook for Transfer Clerks Airport Mail Facilities. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Memorandums |
| Folder number: | 02-06-14 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Air mail service ; Post Office Stations & Branches |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | 210.4-1Stamps, Postage Canceled, Use of for Postal Purposes |
| Date: | 11/13/1908 |
| Description: | Letters received by the Post Office Department and their reply concerning the use of canceled postage stamps on outgoing mail. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence |
| Folder number: | 04-05-11 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations (Philately) ; Mail Service |
| Folder title: | 22 |
| Date: | 12/24/1852 |
| Description: | Correspondence from Philatelist Herbert Bernstein to curator Carl Scheele of the Smithsonian Institute, containing a letter from 1852 by a Mr. Thomas Brewer. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence |
| Folder number: | 01-02-18 |
| Subject(s): | History - Postal ; Mail Service |
| Original source: | Smithsonian Institution |
| Folder title: | 2nd and 3rd Class Mail. |
| Date: | 12/01/1965 |
| Description: | Complete direction for wrapping and mailing items to be sent Second and Third Class mail. POD Publication 21. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Manuals |
| Folder number: | 06-04-19 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | 75.5-1 Envelopes, Letter Sheet V-Mail 1942 |
| Date: | 02/10/1942 |
| Description: | Correspondence pertaining to the inception, use and inquires about V - mail. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Photographs ; Correspondence |
| Folder number: | 01-02-05 |
| Subject(s): | Army Postal Service ; APO ; V Mail ; Airmail ; Air mail service ; V - Mail |
| Original source: | Post Office Department War Department |
| Folder title: | 93 Guam |
| Date: | 01/26/1931 |
| Description: | Correspondence relating to mail service on Guam both before and after WWII.. Letter concerning establishment of Guam Guard Mail. Letter stating that mail service was reauthorized for Guam on 12/1/1944. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Articles |
| Folder number: | 06-05-51 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Mail Service |
| Folder title: | Abbott, Lyman "Postal Telegraphy" The Arena No. 74 |
| Date: | 01/01/1896 |
| Description: | Article making the telegraph service as part of the postal service. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Articles |
| Folder number: | 06-04-26 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service - Electronic Mail Service |
| Original source: | The Arena |
| Folder title: | Air Mail - "Flying Post Office Experiment Horrt Lived" |
| Date: | 10/06/1986 |
| Description: | Linn's Stamp News article about the experiment of processing mail in flight. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Articles |
| Folder number: | 06-05-55 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service - Air Mail ; Air mail service |
| Folder title: | Air Mail - 5/1918 Leaving N.Y. |
| Date: | 05/01/1918 |
| Description: | Leaving New York with Air Mail. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Photographs |
| Folder number: | 06-05-47 |
| Subject(s): | Air mail service |
| Folder title: | Air Mail Letters Identified with Label Tape "Popular Mechanics. Vol. 48, No. 6 (Dec 1921) p. 957" |
| Date: | 12/01/1927 |
| Description: | Air Mail letters identified with label tape. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Articles |
| Folder number: | 05-06-03 |
| Subject(s): | Air mail service |
| Original source: | Popular Mechanics |
| Folder title: | Air Star Route - Hawaii |
| Date: | 02/09/1950 |
| Description: | Cachet for Hawaii First Flight U.S. mail |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Drawings ; Cachets |
| Folder number: | 06-05-19 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets |
| Folder title: | Air Taxi Mail Service |
| Date: | 01/01/1968 |
| Description: | A 1966 - 1967 - 1968 graph of Air Taxi Mail Service volume and a map of new air network for Wyoming mail. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Graphs ; Maps |
| Folder number: | 03-01-06 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service - Air Mail ; Air Routes |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | Air Taxi Mail Service - Now |
| Description: | Map of the U.S. Showing locations of associate offices and sectional centers of Air Taxi Mail Service-Now. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Maps |
| Folder number: | 03-01-03 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service - Air Mail ; Air Routes |
| Folder title: | Air Taxi Service - End 1966 |
| Date: | 01/01/1966 |
| Description: | Map of the U.S. showing locations of associate offices and sectional centers of Air Taxi Mail Service at the end of 1966. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Maps |
| Folder number: | 03-01-04 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service - Air Mail ; Air Routes |
| Folder title: | Airlift (Background & Policy) |
| Date: | 02/16/1967 |
| Description: | Documentation pertaining to Air Mail service: volume - payments to air carriers, expansion of air lift program, installation of air programs 26 major cities all over the country. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Press Releases ; Memorandums |
| Folder number: | 02-02-18 |
| Subject(s): | Air mail service ; Public Relations - Press Releases ; Administration |
| Folder title: | AP News Releases - 02.03.87 - 05.06.87 |
| Date: | 02/03/1987 |
| Description: | Discussion of Postal Union increases in wages, lost mail now found and being delivered as well as the debate on President's Jackson's birthplace etc. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Wire Service Messages |
| Folder number: | 05-06-18 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service |
| Original source: | AP Wire Service |
| Folder title: | Bilstein, Robert A. "Technology & Commerce: Aviation in the Coduce of American Business 1918-29. |
| Date: | 07/01/1969 |
| Description: | Article by Roger E. Bilstein "Technology and Commerce Aviation in the Conduct of American Business, 1918-29". |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Articles |
| Folder number: | 05-06-27 |
| Subject(s): | Air mail service |
| Folder title: | Burr's U. S. Atlas (1839) |
| Date: | 07/10/1839 |
| Description: | The American Atlas, Exhibiting the Post Offices, Post Roads, Rail routes, Canals, and the Physical & Political Divisions of the United States. Parts from a book. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Excerpts |
| Folder number: | 05-03-09 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service |
| Original source: | Burr Atlas |
| Folder title: | Cachet Material - Dodge City Kansas |
| Description: | Cachet for Dodge City, Kansas, U.S. Air Mail First Flight |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Drawings ; Cachets |
| Folder number: | 06-05-23 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets |
| Folder title: | Canal Zone - Air Service (Jet) (Braniff) Canal Zone - Sao Paulo |
| Date: | 04/18/1960 |
| Description: | Press Release regarding the inauguration of jet service from Balboa, Canal Zone to Sao Paulo, Brazil on or about 04/27/1960 and the preparation and servicing of commemorative covers for this event. Machine copies of various stamps, covers and cachets, rubber stamp copy of cachet. Copy of Braniff Airways El Dorado Super Jet brochure in Spanish. |
| Collection: | Panama |
| Includes: | Press Releases |
| Folder number: | 30-03-123 |
| Subject(s): | Air Mail Service ; Inaugural Flight ; Braniff |
| Folder title: | Canal Zone - Air Service KLM, Pam Am Douglas DC-3 |
| Date: | 11/01/1938 |
| Description: | Marketing brochures from KLM royal Dutch Air Lines showing service and schedules. Copy of the Plan Views of Douglas DST & DC-3. Copy of Pan American Airways. |
| Collection: | Panama |
| Includes: | Brochures |
| Folder number: | 30-03-129 |
| Subject(s): | Air Mail Service ; KLM ; Pan American Airways |
| Folder title: | Canal Zone - air Services (Jet) PAA - Panagra - Miami - Balboa - Quito first Jet Flight 2 Jul 64 |
| Date: | 07/02/1964 |
| Description: | Memoranda noting the departure of the inaugural flight to Quito and the 929 first flight covers thereon. Machine copies of various stamps and covers. |
| Collection: | Panama |
| Includes: | Memorandums |
| Folder number: | 30-03-124 |
| Subject(s): | Air Mail Service ; Panagra ; Pan American Airways |
| Folder title: | Canal Zone - Cachet First Flight - Direct Air Service Panama to Los Angeles |
| Date: | 12/07/1951 |
| Description: | Memorandum concerning the shipment of philatelic covers with the authorizes special cachet and postmarked Balboa, Canal Zone. Impressions of the cancellation. |
| Collection: | Panama |
| Includes: | Memorandums |
| Folder number: | 30-03-156 |
| Subject(s): | Air Mail Service ; Pan American World Airways ; First Flight |
| Folder title: | Canal Zone Army Postal Service History Panama Canal Department World War II |
| Date: | 03/07/1936 |
| Description: | Material regarding the U. S. Army Postal Service in the Canal Zone. Correspondence between the Governor and the Command General. Copy of the U. S. Army Circular 380-3, Military Security. Procedures to obtain telephone service from the U. S. Army Signal Corps. Typewritten copy of "History of The Army Postal Services Panama Canal Department". |
| Collection: | Panama |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Circulars ; Memorandums |
| Folder number: | 30-03-127 |
| Subject(s): | World War II ; Mail Service ; United States Army - Postal Service |
| 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: | Canal Zone Jet Service Branif: Canal Zone to Miami |
| Date: | 03/21/1960 |
| Description: | Correspondence and publically released information regarding the special first flight cachet to be mailed from the Canal Zone aboard the first regular jet plane mail service started by Braniff Airways, 04/03/1960. Copy of a Braniff Airways brochure in Spanish. |
| Collection: | Panama |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Brochures ; Bulletins ; Press Releases |
| Folder number: | 30-03-153 |
| Subject(s): | Air Mail Service ; Covers ; First Flight |
| Folder title: | Cancellations |
| Date: | 10/14/1960 |
| Description: | Materials on cancellations. Specific material in this file: U. S Naval Support Force, Antarctica, The National Improved Mail Service, etc. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Articles ; Memorandums |
| Folder number: | 01-05-11 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations (Philately) |
| 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: | Cheboygan, Mich |
| Date: | 04/17/1941 |
| Description: | Cachet for Cheboygan, Michigan, for the United States Air Mail First Flight. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Cachets |
| Folder number: | 06-05-37 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets |
| Original source: | Second Assistant Postmaster General |
| Folder title: | Christmas - 1967 |
| Date: | 09/19/1967 |
| Description: | Postal issues for Christmas 1967. Releases include an approximate total of mail handled during the holiday season 9.7 billion pieces. A report of his tour from the Washington D.C. Post Office. Dealing with the fire at post office annex in New York City and harsh weather that has been a factor in some parts of the country causing "slow" delivery of the mail. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Bulletins ; Memorandums ; Information Sheets |
| Folder number: | 02-03-03 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | Christmas - 1968 |
| Date: | 10/15/1968 |
| Description: | Reports concerning post office issues during the Christmas season of 1968. The final report covers areas of Mail Volume, Manpower, Productivity, Logistics, Pacific Military Mail, Letter Mail, City Delivery. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Reports ; Guides ; Brochures ; Memorandums |
| Folder number: | 02-03-04 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | Christmas Rush |
| Date: | 01/01/1967 |
| Description: | A typed copy of a radio Public Service Announcement (PSA) to use during the Christmas rush of 1967. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Public Service Announcements |
| Folder number: | 01-02-33 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Public Relations - Customer Relations |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | Confederate States of America |
| Date: | 02/25/1962 |
| Description: | An article pertaining to mail service and stamps in the Confederate States of America. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Articles |
| Folder number: | 01-02-21 |
| Subject(s): | History - Postal ; Postage Stamps |
| Original source: | News and Courier |
| Folder title: | Containerization |
| Date: | 09/30/1965 |
| Description: | Material related to the first containerized mail shipment from Chicago to London. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Press Releases ; Photographs |
| Folder number: | 02-07-09 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | Domestic Lettergram Service |
| Date: | 04/13/1964 |
| Description: | A survey and study conducted on two types of domestic lettergrams - with and without enclosures. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Research ; Memorandums |
| Folder number: | 03-03-10 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Stationery ; Postal Service |
| Original source: | Elrick and Lavedge Inc. |
| 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: | Duluth, Minn |
| Date: | 03/15/1940 |
| Description: | Cachets from Duluth Minnesota, for U.S. Air Mail First Flight. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Cachets |
| Folder number: | 06-05-36 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets |
| Original source: | Fourth Assistant Postmaster General |
| Folder title: | ECOM |
| Date: | 06/05/1984 |
| Description: | Board of Governors of the Postal Service voted to "get out of the computer mail business." |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Wire Service Messages |
| Folder number: | 05-06-31 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service - Electronic Mail Service |
| Original source: | AP Wire Service |
| Folder title: | El Centro, Cal, First Flight (Featuring the lettuce crop) |
| Description: | Cachet for El Centro, California for first U.S. Air Mail First Flight |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Cachets |
| Folder number: | 06-05-10 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets |
| Folder title: | Fall River, Mass |
| Description: | Cachet for Fall River, Massachusetts, for U.S. Air Mail First Flight. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Cachets |
| Folder number: | 06-05-33 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets |
| Folder title: | Finance Third Cl. Advertising 1962-63-64 |
| Date: | 10/04/1961 |
| Description: | Materials on the banning of very small and odd shaped letters as well as various aspects of the cost effectiveness of third class mail. Making the mail safer for children to handle: sample razor blades, chlorine bleach powders, that resemble candy etc. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Press Releases ; Articles |
| Folder number: | 02-03-33 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
| Original source: | Post Office Department Wall Street Journal |
| Folder title: | Finance 11 International Rates |
| Date: | 05/20/1961 |
| Description: | Material on International postal rates: weight and rate ratios, military mail service, briefing on Postal Rate Bill, International Mail Rate Report. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Press Releases ; Memorandums ; Correspondence |
| Folder number: | 02-03-28 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Postal Rates ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | Finance 3 Airmail Rates |
| Date: | 12/02/1964 |
| Description: | Air Mail service: Petition to reduce domestic airmail rates and various tables and statistics. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Spreadsheets ; Memorandums ; Fact Sheets |
| Folder number: | 02-03-25 |
| Subject(s): | Air mail service ; Postal Rates ; Administration |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | Finance NIMS St. Louis - K.C. July 1961 |
| Date: | 07/12/1961 |
| Description: | Material for the finances and other aspects of the Nationwide Improved Mail Service (NIMS) program held in St.Louis and Kansas City, Missouri 1961 |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Memorandums ; Correspondence ; Speeches |
| Folder number: | 02-03-23 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Administration ; Speeches |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | First Flight - Eureka, California - Proofs of Cachet |
| Description: | Cachet for Eureka, CA for U.S. Air Mail First Flight. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Cachets |
| Folder number: | 06-05-12 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets |
| Folder title: | Frankfort, Ky |
| Date: | 04/22/1946 |
| Description: | Cachet for Frankfort, Kentucky, for First Flight U.S. mail. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Cachets |
| Folder number: | 06-05-26 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets |
| Folder title: | Gen. Counsel 1 General Correspondence 1961-67 |
| Date: | 04/29/1961 |
| Description: | Miscellaneous correspondence of the General Counsel for the Post Office Department. Some examples include: A biographical sketch of Tim James May, request for the copy of the 1918 report of the Postmaster General. Legislative highlights, franking, "Taper" bill, Itineraries. proposal for story in Machinist Magazine. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Biographies ; Correspondence |
| Folder number: | 02-03-12 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service - Employees |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | General History - U. S. P. O. D and Postal Development All Periods All Phases |
| Date: | 05/04/1881 |
| Description: | History of Post Office and mail service in Colonial and U.S. times. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Press Releases ; Articles ; Correspondence |
| Folder number: | 03-03-11 |
| Subject(s): | History - Postal ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | Grand Junction, Colo. - Cachet Proofs - First Flight 1946 |
| Date: | 02/01/1946 |
| Description: | Cachet for Grand Junction Colorado for U.S. Air Mail First Flight. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Negatives ; Drawings |
| Folder number: | 06-05-07 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets |
| Folder title: | Gulfport, Miss |
| Description: | Cachet for Gulfport, Mississippi, for the United States Air Mail First Flight. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Cachets |
| Folder number: | 06-05-38 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets |
| Folder title: | Helicopter - Chicago |
| Description: | Cachet for the Chicago area Experimental Helicopter Service. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Cachets |
| Folder number: | 06-05-21 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets |
| Folder title: | Helicopter - New York |
| Date: | 12/16/1946 |
| Description: | U.S. Air Mail in the New York area by Experimental Helicopter Service Cachet. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Cachets |
| Folder number: | 06-05-41 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets |
| Original source: | Fourth Assistant Postmaster General |
| Folder title: | Historic Flights 1918, 1938, 1948 |
| Date: | 05/15/1918 |
| Description: | Photo of the planes and a copy of the letter each Postmaster General sent on the flight. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Photographs |
| Folder number: | 03-04-08 |
| Subject(s): | Air mail service |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | Hope Diamond Wrapper |
| Date: | 11/21/1958 |
| Description: | U.S. News and World Report page of photo of diamond and listing of mailing cost. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Articles |
| Folder number: | 03-03-18 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Smithsonian Institution |
| Original source: | U.S. News and World Report |
| 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: | Hyannis, Mass |
| Description: | Cachet for Hyannis, Massachusetts, for U.S. Air Mail First Flight. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Cachets |
| Folder number: | 06-05-32 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets |
| Folder title: | Illinois |
| Date: | 08/25/1904 |
| Description: | Articles discussing the opening of the Pneumatic Mail Tubes, mail boxes on sidewalks and history of the Post Office Department in Chicago. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Articles |
| Folder number: | 05-07-25 |
| Subject(s): | Pneumatic Machinery ; Mail Service |
| Original source: | Chicago Tribune |
| Folder title: | Indiana |
| Date: | 04/01/1938 |
| Description: | The first U.S. Air Mail service was by balloon from Lafayette Indiana, Aug. 17, 1859. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Articles |
| Folder number: | 06-05-22 |
| Subject(s): | Balloon post |
| Original source: | Postmaster Gazette |
| Folder title: | Infor. Requirements Classes & Subclasses Mail |
| Date: | 11/02/1972 |
| Description: | Information requirements relating to classes and subclasses of mail and service performance. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Reports |
| Folder number: | 02-05-10 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | Int'l - Flying Tiger Lines - 1964 |
| Date: | 04/07/1964 |
| Description: | The Flying Tiger Lines was in conflict with the Civil Aeronautics Board concerning air mail rates. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Articles |
| Folder number: | 02-06-26 |
| Subject(s): | Air mail service ; Postal Rates |
| Folder title: | Int'l 10 Canadian Postal Strike |
| Date: | 08/01/1968 |
| Description: | Material on the Canadian postal workers strike and the effect on United States mail service. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Memorandums ; Telegrams ; Press Releases |
| Folder number: | 02-06-24 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service - Foreign ; Postal Service - Strikes and Lockouts ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | Int'l 3 International Postal Organ. |
| Date: | 02/20/1969 |
| Description: | Material relating to meetings with the international postal community. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Memorandums ; Press Releases |
| Folder number: | 02-06-18 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service - Foreign ; Administration ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | Int'l 9 Mail to Cuba |
| Date: | 01/11/1968 |
| Description: | Material relating to problems with mail service to Cuba. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Memorandums ; Articles |
| Folder number: | 02-06-23 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service - Foreign ; Mail Service |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | Kansas Coffeyville Kan |
| Description: | Cachet for Coffeyville and Hutchinson, Kansas, U.S. Air Mail First Flight. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Cachets |
| Folder number: | 06-05-20 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets |
| Folder title: | La Junta, Cal. - Cachet Material - 1940 First flight |
| Date: | 07/23/1940 |
| Description: | Cachet for La Junta, Colorado for U.S. Air Mail First Flight. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Negatives ; Drawings |
| Folder number: | 06-05-08 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets |
| Folder title: | Lakehurst, New Jersey |
| Description: | Cachet from Lakehurst New Jersey for the First Flight of the Hindenburg Trans-Atlantic to Frankfurt. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Cachets |
| Folder number: | 06-05-40 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets |
| Folder title: | Lexington, Ky |
| Date: | 04/22/1946 |
| Description: | Cachet for Lexington, Kentucky, U.S Air Mail First Flight. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Cachets |
| Folder number: | 06-05-15 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets |
| Folder title: | Mail Handling and Distribution, General |
| Date: | 12/01/1965 |
| Description: | A series of brochures and instructional letters about the handling and distribution of mail. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Brochures ; Instructional Letters |
| Folder number: | 01-02-27 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | Maine - Millinocket, Houlton, Presque Isle, Caribou, ETC. |
| Description: | Cachet for Bangor, Moncton, Auburn, Lewiston, Waterville, Millnocket, Houlton, Presque Isle and Caribou, Maine for U.S. Air Mail First Flight. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Cachets |
| Folder number: | 06-05-46 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets |
| Folder title: | MAP Santa Fe trail |
| Date: | 01/01/1908 |
| Description: | Map of the Santa Fe Trail through Colorado. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Maps |
| Folder number: | 05-03-06 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service |
| Original source: | State Engineer Office Denver, Colorado |
| Folder title: | MAPS - Highways and Waterways in early U. S. Times |
| Date: | 01/01/1796 - 01/01/1860 |
| Description: | Maps showing progress of the overland routes throughout the United States. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Maps |
| Folder number: | 05-03-07 |
| Subject(s): | Postal service |
| Folder title: | MAPS - Sectionalism and U. S. Map of 1855 and 1860-61 |
| Date: | 01/01/1796 - 01/01/1860 |
| Description: | Maps showing progress of the Overland Routes throughout the United States. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Maps |
| Folder number: | 05-03-08 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service |
| Folder title: | Maryland |
| Date: | 01/29/1967 |
| Description: | The amount of postal mail delivered in the Baltimore in 1867 and 1868. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Articles |
| Folder number: | 05-07-26 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service |
| Original source: | Sun Magazine |
| Folder title: | Marysville, Calif. |
| Date: | 10/03/1946 |
| Description: | Cachet for Marysville, California, for U.S. Air Mail First Flight. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Cachets ; Correspondence |
| Folder number: | 06-05-50 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets |
| Folder title: | Material California Earthquake of March, 1933 |
| Date: | 03/01/1933 |
| Description: | Mail jam, plan crash, hurricane, flood, snow and earthquake disasters that affected mail delivery. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Articles ; Press Releases ; Reports |
| Folder number: | 05-05-11 |
| Subject(s): | Disasters ; Public Relations - Press Releases ; Mail Service |
| Folder title: | Merced, Cal. - first Flight 1945 - Cachet - Drawing original & proofs |
| Date: | 05/22/1946 |
| Description: | Cachet for Merced, California for U.S. Air Mail First Flight. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Negatives ; Drawings |
| Folder number: | 06-05-09 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets |
| Folder title: | Michigan - Grand Rapids, Traverse City |
| Description: | Cachets from Traverse City and Grand Rapids, Michigan for U.S. Air Mail first Flight. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Cachets |
| Folder number: | 06-05-35 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets |
| Folder title: | Military Mail Service - Civil War, Union Army |
| Date: | 01/01/1981 |
| Description: | Military mail service during the Civil War for the Union Army. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Articles |
| Folder number: | 05-06-32 |
| Subject(s): | United States Army - Postal Service ; History - Postal |
| Folder title: | Minot, N.D. |
| Date: | 04/16/1940 |
| Description: | Cachet for Minot, North Dakota for U.S. Air Mail First Flight. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Cachets |
| Folder number: | 06-05-43 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets |
| Original source: | First Assistant Postmaster General |
| Folder title: | Miscellaneous |
| Date: | 11/22/1963 |
| Description: | Correspondence between Post Office Department and individuals wanting U.S. flags on vehicles, information on Letter Writing Week and Christmas post cards plus Post Office Department list of accomplishments. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Memorandums |
| Folder number: | 03-01-09 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service |
| Folder title: | Mobile, Alabama |
| Description: | Cachet created for Mobile, Alabama for U.S. Air Mail First Flight. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Cachets |
| Folder number: | 06-05-39 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets |
| Folder title: | Modesto, Cal. - First flight 1946 - Original drawing and proof for Cachet |
| Date: | 05/22/1946 |
| Description: | Cachet for Modesto and Merced, CA for U.S. Air Mail first flight. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Negatives ; Drawings |
| Folder number: | 06-05-05 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets |
| Folder title: | Montana - Great Falls / Lewistown |
| Description: | Cachet for Great Falls and Lewistown, Montana, for U.S. Air Mail First Flight. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Cachets |
| Folder number: | 06-05-45 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets |
| Folder title: | Nantucket, Mass |
| Description: | Cachet for Nantucket, Massachusetts, for U.S. Air Mail First Flight. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Cachets ; Photographs |
| Folder number: | 06-05-31 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets |
| Folder title: | New Bedford, Mass |
| Description: | Cachet for New Bedford Massachusetts, for U.S. Air Mail First Flight. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Brochures ; Cachets |
| Folder number: | 06-05-29 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets |
| Folder title: | New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Description: | Cachet for New Orleans, LA, for U.S. Air Mail First Flight. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Cachets |
| Folder number: | 06-05-28 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets |
| Folder title: | News Kit Nationwide Improved Mail Service |
| Date: | 03/01/1960 |
| Description: | Nationwide improved mail service. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Press Releases ; Photographs |
| Folder number: | 03-04-02 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | News Kit for Press Conference of P.M.G. Lawrence O'Brien on 5/19/66 |
| Date: | 05/19/1966 |
| Description: | Press releases to advertise improvement in letter delivery, zip code accessibility, mechanization and air pollution control. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Press Releases ; Photographs |
| Folder number: | 03-03-15 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Public Relations - Press Releases ; Automation |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | NIMS Program (Mail Handling) |
| Date: | 07/16/1961 |
| Description: | Two brochures and a copy of a speech by PMG J. Edward Day pertaining to NIMS. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Brochures ; Speeches |
| Folder number: | 01-02-32 |
| Subject(s): | Letter Mail Handling ; Speeches |
| Folder title: | Norwalk, Conn |
| Date: | 08/07/1946 |
| Description: | Cachet for Norwalk, Connecticut, U.S. Air Mail First Flight. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Cachets |
| Folder number: | 06-05-17 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets |
| Folder title: | November 1, 1960 Battle Creek (Speed Mail) |
| Date: | 01/26/1960 |
| Description: | 1960 speed mail utilizing satellite echo between Washington, Chicago and Battle Creek, Michigan. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Press Releases ; Photographs ; Correspondence |
| Folder number: | 03-04-03 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service - Electronic Mail Service ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | Oak Bluffs, Mass. (on island of Martha's Vineyard) |
| Description: | Cachet for Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, for U.S. First Flight Air Mail. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Drawings ; Cachets |
| Folder number: | 06-05-30 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets |
| Folder title: | Ohio |
| Date: | 06/01/1962 |
| Description: | Description of mail carried in 1809 from Cleveland to Detroit, by foot, with mail satchel shown. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Brochures |
| Folder number: | 05-07-29 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service ; History - Postal |
| Original source: | Historical Society News |
| 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: | Overland Mail - Route No. 12578 |
| Date: | 03/12/1861 |
| Description: | Photocopy of the contract for carrying mail on Route 12578 (which is changed to Route 10773) beginning 07/01/1861. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Contracts |
| Folder number: | 05-06-29 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service ; History - Postal |
| 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 "History of Air Trans. Of Mail" |
| Date: | 05/02/1963 |
| Description: | Materials depicting and describing the history of Air Mail in the Post Office Department. Some examples of material include the following: Directory of Publications, Air Transportation, Transportation of Mail by Air, facts and figures lists for topics on Air Mail history. Postal policy on mail matters vs. those of the Air Transportation Association. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Articles ; Correspondence ; Brochures ; Memorandums |
| Folder number: | 02-02-17 |
| Subject(s): | Air mail service ; History - Postal ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
| Folder title: | P. 1. History Mailings of Animals |
| Date: | 06/29/1962 |
| Description: | Guide - rules for mailing live animals, poisons, sharp edges, firearms, perishables, "non-mailable matter" |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Guides |
| Folder number: | 02-02-20 |
| Subject(s): | Postal 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. History Transportation Policies and Methods |
| Description: | Material on transportation policies and methods, President Johnson's cost reduction program and the Department's mail service improvement program. Some of the highlights of this publication include topics on Traffic management conferences, Railway Mail, Highway Transportation, Mail Service improvement, Mail equipment transportation, distribution and routing. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Publications |
| Folder number: | 02-02-19 |
| Subject(s): | Administration ; Postal Service |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| 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. History Transportation & Photos |
| Date: | 08/14/1961 |
| Description: | Articles and Press Releases providing historical information on the mail service transportation. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Articles ; Press Releases |
| Folder number: | 02-05-25 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service - Transportation ; Star Routes ; Air Mail Service |
| Folder title: | P.1. History Fact Sheets 3.1.25 |
| Description: | Materials on postal information fact sheets. Some of the material in this file are Organizational charts, and fiscal year fact sheet from 7/1/1959 to 6/30/1960; 7/1/1961 to 6/30/1965, 7/2/1965 to 6/30/1968; and accomplishments of the Post Office Department 1961 to 1963: Postal rate reform, more efficient mail handling, four hour business mail service, mail service to Alaska, pay reform, better mail law enforcement, |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Reports ; Fact Sheets ; Fiscal Statements |
| Folder number: | 01-07-24 |
| Subject(s): | Air mail service ; Postal Rates ; Postal Service - Employees |
| Folder title: | P.1. Memos To and From P.1 Staff 1968 |
| Date: | 12/01/1967 |
| Description: | Inter-office memoranda to and from the public information staff. Some of the topics covered are the following: National Postal Action Program, removal of politics from postal appointments, regional directors conference 03/22/1968. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Memorandums |
| Folder number: | 02-02-04 |
| Subject(s): | Public Relations - Business ; Administration ; Postal Service - Employees |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | P.1. Post Office Dept. Gen. Corres. 1968 |
| Date: | 01/24/1967 |
| Description: | Correspondence includes requests for information for educational purposes, zip code system, history of air mail. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence |
| Folder number: | 01-07-36 |
| Subject(s): | Administration ; Zip Code ; Air Mail Service |
| 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: | P.O. DEPT. News Kit - Durham, N. C. |
| Date: | 01/15/1965 |
| Description: | Vertical Improved Mail Service News Kit. Talk by Assistant Postmaster General regarding installation of a speed mail delivery service to be installed in a new building in Durham North Carolina. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Press Releases |
| Folder number: | 05-05-04 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | P.O. DEPT. News Kit - on VIM |
| Date: | 03/29/1966 |
| Description: | VIM means Vertical Improved Mail which is a system for moving mail by electronically controlled conveyors from a lower floor mail room or postal station to occupants in tall office buildings. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Press Releases |
| Folder number: | 05-05-07 |
| Subject(s): | Mail Receiving and Forwarding Services ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | P.O. DEPT. News Kit of 1/11/68 |
| Date: | 01/11/1968 |
| Description: | First Class Mail by Air News Kit. Postmaster General Lawrence O'Brien will be asking Congress to make the postage rate the same for airmail and first class mail. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Press Releases |
| Folder number: | 05-05-05 |
| Subject(s): | Air mail service ; Postal Rates ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | Palm Springs, Cal. - First Flight - Negative and Proofs - 1945 |
| Date: | 10/03/1945 |
| Description: | Cachet for Palm Springs, CA for U.S. Air Mail First Flight. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Negatives ; Drawings |
| Folder number: | 06-05-06 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets |
| Folder title: | PANAGRA Pan American - Grace Airways Airline |
| Date: | 01/01/1954 |
| Description: | The summary of thirty years of aviation progress by Panagra as reflected by postage stamps and first flight covers. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Essays |
| Folder number: | 05-06-11 |
| Subject(s): | Postage Stamps ; Air mail service ; Covers |
| Folder title: | Pennslyvania Phila. and Camden, N. J. Negatives |
| Date: | 03/27/1939 |
| Description: | Cachets for New Kensington, Philadelphia, Butler, Coatesville, Kane, Corry, Gettysburg, Erie, Warren, Tyrone, York, Wilkes-Barre, Dubois, Titusville, Natrona, Pennsylvania. Camden, New Jersey for U.S. Air Mail First Flight. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Cachets |
| Folder number: | 06-05-44 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets |
| Folder title: | Philatelic Publications and Album Manufacturing - Newspaper & Broadcasting Contracts |
| Date: | 08/02/1960 |
| Description: | Correspondence from various Philatelic organizations (editors) and the Post Office Department. An article from the New York Times Sunday, 02/25/1968. NEW FOR STAMP COLLECTORS. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Forms ; Notices ; Correspondence |
| Folder number: | 02-02-25 |
| Subject(s): | Postage Stamps ; Stamp Collecting (Philately) |
| Folder title: | Pilottown - New Orleans, Hoverplane 1920's |
| Date: | 09/09/1968 |
| Description: | Letters and memoranda pertaining to Hover plane mail service |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Memorandums ; Correspondence |
| Folder number: | 01-02-23 |
| Subject(s): | Air mail service |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | PMG News Conference on Airlift 1/11/68 |
| Date: | 12/01/1967 |
| Description: | Material on the January 11, 1968 press conference by the Postmaster General |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Memorandums ; Transcripts |
| Folder number: | 02-07-07 |
| Subject(s): | Public Relations - Press Releases ; Air mail service ; Postal Service - Postmasters |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | PMG Postmaster General's FY1966 Annual Report |
| Date: | 06/23/1966 |
| Description: | Annual Report for 1966 covering areas of Parcel Post, Postal Savings System, Employment Opportunities, Construction Plans, etc. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Memorandums ; Annual Reports |
| Folder number: | 02-03-05 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Postal Service - Employees |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | PMG1 Proposed Non-Profit Corp. 4/3/67 |
| Date: | 11/23/1966 |
| Description: | Papers concerning converting Post Office Department into a non-profit corporation. Report to British Parliament "Reorganisation of the Post Office, 1967. Executive Order of April 8, 1967 establishing the President's Commission On Postal Organization. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Press Releases ; Articles ; Memorandums |
| Folder number: | 02-06-05 |
| Subject(s): | Administration ; Postal Service - History ; Public Relations - Press Releases) |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | Post Office Department Records 1938/39 |
| Description: | Records of the Post Office Department Bureau of the 2nd Assistant Postmaster General Division of the Air Mail Service 1938 and 1939. A list of records relating to National Air Mail week, May 15-21, 1938. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Lists |
| Folder number: | 01-01-02 |
| Folder title: | Priority Mail 4/6/67 |
| Date: | 04/17/1967 |
| Description: | A status report on the Priority Mail Program . |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Reports |
| Folder number: | 02-07-05 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | Project #2 Carry Wilmer |
| Date: | 09/23/1960 |
| Description: | Press releases providing information on the efficiency of the Postal Service. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Memorandums ; Press Releases |
| Folder number: | 02-07-20 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service |
| Original source: | Post Office department |
| Folder title: | Publications |
| Date: | 08/01/1955 |
| Description: | Pamphlets providing information to the public about the Postal Service. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Publications |
| Folder number: | 03-03-16 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | Pueblo, Colo. - First Flight Cachet - 1939 |
| Date: | 03/14/1939 |
| Description: | Cachet for Pueblo, Colorado for U.S. air Mail First Flight. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Negatives ; Cachets |
| Folder number: | 06-05-11 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets |
| Folder title: | Railroad Strike - December 1970 |
| Date: | 02/06/1968 |
| Description: | Postal Service activities related to the rail strike. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Press Releases ; Telegrams |
| Folder number: | 02-07-21 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service - Strikes and Lockouts ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
| 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: | Regional Memos (All Regions) |
| Date: | 11/10/1965 |
| Description: | Memoranda concerning speed of mail service to Regional Directors or Assistants. Mail delivery needs improvement |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Memorandums ; Telegrams |
| Folder number: | 02-01-26 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| 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: | Sailboat - Photo, Drawing, Cachet |
| Description: | First Flight Air Mail cachet requested by Long Beach, California. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Drawings ; Photographs |
| Folder number: | 06-05-02 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets |
| Folder title: | Salinas, Calif. - First Flight Cachet materials - June 1946 |
| Date: | 06/06/1946 |
| Description: | First Flight Air Mail cachet requested by Salinas, California |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Photographs ; Drawings |
| Folder number: | 06-05-03 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets |
| Folder title: | San Berardino, Calif - First Flight Cachet Materials - negative & proofs |
| Date: | 10/25/1945 |
| Description: | Cachets requested by San Bernadino and Palm Springs California for their "First Flight" air mail. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Negatives |
| Folder number: | 06-05-01 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets |
| Folder title: | Scandinavian Airlines - 1954/55 |
| Date: | 05/28/1954 |
| Description: | Correspondence concerning the Post Office Department non-assignment of foreign air mail route numbers to air services operated by carriers of other countries. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence |
| Folder number: | 05-05-26 |
| Subject(s): | Air Mail Routes ; Air mail service |
| Folder title: | Speed Mail |
| Date: | 11/01/1960 |
| Description: | 1960 speed mail utilizing satellite echo. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Press Releases ; Photographs |
| Folder number: | 03-04-01 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service - Electronic Mail Service ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
| Folder title: | Stamford - Norwalk, Conn |
| Date: | 08/06/1946 |
| Description: | Cachet for Stamford and Norwalk, Connecticut, U.S. Air Mail First Flight. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Cachets |
| Folder number: | 06-05-42 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets |
| Original source: | Fourth and Second Assistant Post Master General |
| Folder title: | Stockton, Cal |
| Date: | 04/01/1946 |
| Description: | Cachet for Stockton, California for U.S. Air Mail First Flight. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Cachets ; Booklets |
| Folder number: | 06-05-49 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets |
| Folder title: | Trans - 10 Executive Planning BD - Airlift Program |
| Date: | 04/22/1966 |
| Description: | To achieve next day delivery of mail, research and development is necessary. The use of computer controlled, dispatch oriented, mail processing systems may accomplish this. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Memorandums ; Correspondence |
| Folder number: | 02-01-29 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service - Speed Mail ; Automation ; Air mail service |
| 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 11 News Stories (Misc) |
| Date: | 07/30/1964 |
| Description: | Copies of articles prepared for publication. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Articles |
| Folder number: | 02-05-21 |
| Subject(s): | Administration ; Star Routes ; Air Mail Service |
| Folder title: | Trans 12 Overseas Mail & Viet Nam |
| Date: | 09/17/1964 |
| Description: | Military mail out of the U.S. primarily to Viet Nam - rules, regulations, carriers, storage facilities, deliveries, etc. Copy of Department of the Army Circular 65-1 Assignment of ZIP-APO Codes to APO Addresses. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Memorandums ; Press Releases ; Articles |
| Folder number: | 03-01-27 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
| Folder title: | Trans 13 Priority Mail & New Policy |
| Date: | 02/25/1963 |
| Description: | Material related to the Priority Mail service and the movement of mail by airlift. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Memorandums ; Articles ; Press Releases |
| Folder number: | 02-01-30 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service - Air Mail ; Public Relations - Press Releases ; Mail Service |
| Folder title: | Trans 13-1 Newspaper Pub. Meeting (2nd and 3rd Class) |
| Date: | 02/12/1968 |
| Description: | At the Newspaper and Magazine Publishers meeting in 1968 there were many complaints about delays in distribution of publications. The Post Office Department reaction is given. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Memorandums ; Articles |
| Folder number: | 02-01-24 |
| Subject(s): | Postal 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 6-2 Air Taxi Safety and Crashes |
| Date: | 05/29/1968 |
| Description: | Material related to aircraft accidents and safety of air taxis. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Memorandums ; Correspondence |
| Folder number: | 02-07-17 |
| Subject(s): | Air mail service |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| 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. 2 Airlift |
| Date: | 10/08/1953 |
| Description: | Material on Air Mail Service. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Press Releases ; Memorandums |
| Folder number: | 02-07-08 |
| Subject(s): | Air mail service ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | Trans. 3 Airlines |
| Date: | 04/26/1966 |
| Description: | Material on the role of airlines in moving the mail. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Memorandums ; Press Releases ; Statements |
| Folder number: | 02-07-10 |
| Subject(s): | Air mail service ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | Trans. 4 Airline Strikes (General) |
| Date: | 04/21/1966 |
| Description: | Material on moving the mails during strikes. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Fact Sheets ; Memorandums ; Articles |
| Folder number: | 02-07-11 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service - Strikes and Lockouts ; Air mail service |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | Trans. 4-1 Airline Strike (Pan American) |
| Date: | 12/02/1966 |
| Description: | Discussion of moving the mail via alternate airline if this strike occurs. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Fact Sheets ; Telegrams |
| Folder number: | 02-07-12 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service - Strikes and Lockouts ; Air mail service |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | Trans. 4-2 Cancellation of Eastern Flts. |
| Date: | 06/03/1966 |
| Description: | Eastern Airlines cancelled flights without previous announcement. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Fact Sheets ; Correspondence |
| Folder number: | 02-07-13 |
| Subject(s): | Air mail service |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | Trans. 5 Airmail - Domestic |
| Date: | 02/28/1967 |
| Description: | Request for information about early air mail pilots, one such organization is noted. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Articles ; Correspondence |
| Folder number: | 02-07-14 |
| Subject(s): | Air mail service |
| 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: | Trans. Air Taxis - Cancellations Iimitations |
| Date: | 03/18/1968 |
| Description: | Material related to transport of air mail by small aircraft. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Forms |
| Folder number: | 02-07-15 |
| 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 |
| Folder title: | U. P. U. |
| Description: | History of the Universal Postal Union |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Essays |
| Folder number: | 04-06-17 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Foreign Mail |
| Folder title: | US Patent Office - In Re Machines Used for Postal Servicel |
| Date: | 09/19/1865 |
| Description: | Envelope sealing, cash register, postage meter and hand stamp machines. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Drawings |
| Folder number: | 05-06-46 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service - Metered Mail ; Cancelling Machines ; Mail Service |
| Original source: | Patent Office |
| Folder title: | USPO |
| Date: | 12/15/1961 |
| Description: | Historical items on mail service and stamps. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Lists ; Articles ; Correspondence ; Brochures |
| Folder number: | 03-02-31 |
| Subject(s): | History - Postal ; Postal Rates ; Smithsonian Institution |
| Folder title: | USPOD |
| Date: | 09/23/1958 |
| Description: | Press releases from the Post Office Department, Treasury, Defense and Navy regarding legislation, sales, rural mail service as well as rate and legal changes. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Press Releases ; Brochures |
| Folder number: | 03-02-42 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service - Law and Legislation ; Public Relations - Press Releases ; Postal Rates |
| Folder title: | USPOD Nashville, TN |
| Date: | 07/02/1924 |
| Description: | Notices Sent to postal patrons by the Post Office Department. of Nashville, Tennessee. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Notices |
| Folder number: | 03-02-09 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service |
| Original source: | Postmaster Nashville, Tennessee |
| Folder title: | USPOD Press Releases |
| Date: | 07/11/1985 |
| Description: | Press wire stories covering a broad spectrum of subjects - Soviet rejection of a lot of packages sent there, staff changes, stamp subjects, delivery of mail to homes vis-a-vis cluster boxes |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Wire Service Messages |
| Folder number: | 03-03-22 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service - Law and Legislation |
| Original source: | Associated Press |
| Folder title: | USPOD Speed Mail |
| Date: | 11/01/1960 |
| Description: | Speed mail transmits official correspondence for Federal agencies. The system employs micro-waves to send letters between cities. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Press Releases |
| Folder number: | 03-03-20 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | Valdosta, Ga |
| Description: | Cachet for Valdosta Georgia, U.S. Air Mail First Flight. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Cachets |
| Folder number: | 06-05-18 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets |
| Folder title: | Visalia, Cal |
| Date: | 04/01/1946 |
| Description: | Cachet for Visalia, California plus a brochure published by the Chamber of Commerce. Pictures of tall trees. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Postcards ; Cachets |
| Folder number: | 06-05-48 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets |
| Folder title: | Wagon Collection and Distribution Mail |
| Date: | 04/11/1936 |
| Description: | An article about a mail service by the United States Post Office Department in the late 19th century. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Articles |
| Folder number: | 01-02-20 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service - Transportation |
| Original source: | Stamps Magazine |
| Folder title: | Wilson, William L. (PMG) "Why I oppose Governmental Control of the Telegraph" The Arena No. 74 |
| Date: | 01/01/1896 |
| Description: | Postmaster-General William L. Wilson states his opinion about the government taking over the telegraph service. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Articles |
| Folder number: | 06-04-27 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service - Electronic Mail Service ; Postal Service - Postmasters |
| Original source: | The Arena |
| Folder title: | Yreka City, Calif. |
| Date: | 08/21/1946 |
| Description: | Cachet for Yreka California for U.S. Air Mail First Flight. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Cachets |
| Folder number: | 06-05-14 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets |
| Original source: | Post Office Department Fourth Assistant Post Master General |
| Folder title: | Zip Code Campaign |
| Description: | A letter from Postmaster General O'Brien to the Advertising Council Inc., copies from the radios Public Service Announcements urging people to use zip codes. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Public Service Announcements |
| Folder number: | 01-02-30 |
| Subject(s): | Zip Codes ; Public Relations - Customer Relations ; Postal Service |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | Zones and Zoning Zip Codes (Mail Handling) |
| Date: | 11/28/1962 |
| Description: | Materials pertaining to the implementation of zip codes by the United States Post Office Department in the 1960's. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Guides ; Advertisements ; Press Releases |
| Folder number: | 01-02-31 |
| Subject(s): | Zip Code ; Public Relations - Press Releases ; Mail Service |
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