The mail must go through

I want one of these mail trucks.  I wonder if there are any left anywhere.

From a collection of photos from way, way back, some of them from about a hundred years back, in fact, of postal workers at work postaling, at mental_floss.

Comments

[Rana]

How about an old 1931 ice cream truck instead?

[Ken Houghton]

Dang. Was expecting Tom Paxton.

[Mark]

My father retired from the Post Office in about 1974. I think his Post Office was more like the one in the photos than the current USPS. In those days, downtown Rome, Ga, where he worked, received twice-daily deliveries. Letter carrierers took the bus to their routes where they retrieved their mail pouches from holding boxes out in the neighborhoods, and then walked their routes. Local mail was sorted locally, where now almost all mail is taken to regional sorting centers. But by the time he retired things were already changing, and not for the better.