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Skyhooking: rural postal mail artifact, 1949
From the archives of the Smithsonian Institution and the National Postal Museum: In the 1930s, U.S. postal officials tried different ways of moving the mail. One technique was called "skyhooking, which brought the mail to rural towns that had no adequate railway or highway mail routes. Outgoing mail was placed in rubber containers, like the [...]
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