4 March 2021 - LONDON'S FORGOTTEN MAIL TRAIN

 

LONDON'S FORGOTTEN 

MAIL TRAIN  

 

G'day folks,

The Royal Mail’s underground ‘mini’ railway was used to take letters (and possibly workers) along the tracks to different station/sorting offices stretching from Paddington to Whitechapel. In 2002, it had become an uneconomical service, losing an estimated £1.2M a day, and quietly shut down.

For almost a decade, the abandoned stations and tracks have stood in silence; only empty mail trolleys creaking from the drafts, outdated telephones sitting on abandoned control desks, trains mid-track and frozen in time.

 

Clancy's comment: Wow, we just never know what is happening beneath our major cities.

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18 August 2020 - A COLLECTION OF VINTAGE U.S. POSTAL VEHICLES

A COLLECTION OF 

VINTAGE U.S. 

POSTAL VEHICLES

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Postal vehicles have become a part of day-to-day sights in the United States for years now. These vehicles don’t just deliver mail, though. 

They have also become a mark of trust and dependability of the U.S. Postal Service that has been serving the country for more than 200 years. In fact, these postal vehicles are now almost as recognizable as the letter carriers themselves. Postal vehicles in America have been evolving for over a century. While today, a number of modern automobiles are being used by the postal department, we cannot overlook the job done by the vehicles of the past. 

The older postal vehicles, while no longer in use, are nostalgic reminders of the days of the yore and they also let us know about the engineering progress that has been made.

 

Here are some of the oldest vehicles used by the U.S. Postal Department over the past many years.

Clancy's comment: I bet they would all be worth a lot of money now.

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