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Letter Carrier collecting mail for USPS (1890)

City collection wagon postal service in Chicago (1890)

Letter Carrier delivering mail by bicycle (1890)

Regulation Mail Wagon in San Francisco (1895)

Mail Streetcar for USPS in St. Louis, Missouri (1896)

U.S. Railway Mail Service (1896)

City mail wagon – USPS (1905)

USPS Rural Carrier with horse and wagon (1905)

Mail collection wagons (1905)

“Rural Free Delivery” Carrier in Greenfield, Indiana (1905)

Columbia Mark 3 Mail Truck in Baltimore, Maryland (1906)

Letter Carrier delivering mail – US postal service (1908)

Three-wheeled Mail Collection Motorcycle in Washington DC (1912)

Parcel Post Wagon in New Bedford, Massachusetts (1913)

Mail carriers walking on the streets of New York (1896)

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