Tag Archive: rural

May
24

Wyden Fights to Protect Vote-by-Mail & Keep Rural Post Offices Open Through Election Day

April 18, 2012: Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) took to the Senate floor to explain his amendment to the postal service bill being debate. The planned closures …Video Rating: 5 / 5

Jan
26

Rural wagon giving mail to branch, US Post Office

SUMMARY The first scene shows a rural free delivery mail man standing waiting for the area mail to be delivered to him. As the film continues, a horse-drawn wagon marked “Rural Postal Delivery” passes the camera position. The mail is then handed to the waiting postman who boards a two-wheel wagon and drives away.NOTES Copyright: …

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Jan
16

Coach at rural post office, US Post Office

SUMMARY This section of the postal film is concerned with a stagecoach pulled by four horses arriving and delivering a pouch of mail to a rural post office for rerouting. Also visible is the post office delivery wagon.NOTES Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Company; 22Aug03; H34991. Cameraman, AE Weed. Filmed July 30, 1903 in Washington, …

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