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During this digital field trip students will discover how mail was sorted and delivered across the country by trains. Students will also meet Owney, the famous Railroad Post Office dog, and hear his incredible story of adventure on the rails. Designed for K-12 classroom audiences and touches on CA State Standard 4.4.1. This free livestream is available for anyone and is the first of this school year’s monthly unique digital field trips over through PORTS. Register here or in our Linktree in our bio: https://ports-ca.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mYjabO-_RQyYOzyIAkWytQ #

Memories of working in the railroad mail service on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy in the 1950s

Guest blogger Tim Bond gets a first-hand look at the new package sorter in the Seattle P&DC.

An expert explains how automation enables quick deliveries—which will include ballots for November’s election

Answer (1 of 7): Hand written poorly scripted letters. If you print the letters for the address the machine can read your printed address. Cursive is harder to read for some sorters, especially bad hand writing. Also if you put cellophane tape over the address, it will some times not be able t...

Each machine can sort up to 36,000 pieces of mail per hour including letters and post cards.

The United States Postal Service removed 711 mail-sorting machines from postal facilities – the highest level in at least four years – according to new court testimony from top-ranking agency officials.

Holiday mail delivery is getting more efficient out of the Stockton post office thanks to a sorting machine that’s new to the site this year. In July, the U...

At the Remote Encoding Center in Salt Lake City, keyers process 1.2 billion images of mail every year. It's a more difficult job than I thought.Edited by Mic...

Would you like to help us out? Take this quick survey: https://s.si.edu/3FyL1W9 With all of the mail floating around out there, they had to come up with a wa...

For more than a century, the core of America’s postal system was the Railway Mail Service. The system of train lines that crisscrossed the nation carried passengers and mail in and out of large cities and small towns. The Railway Mail Service went a step further in service than passenger trains, providing mail delivery and pick-up to small towns where trains did not even stop. The service relied on partnerships with America’s railway companies and the dedication and efforts of the service’s Railway Post Office clerks. From its beginnings in the midst of the Civil War to its slow decline after World War II and the service’s last run in 1977, the history of America’s Railway Mail Service is one that was central to America’s postal history. Glossary: Railway Mail Service

The rail network in Britain expanded rapidly in Victorian times. Curator Julian explores this new form of transport.

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Where Meta, Google, and Apple zig, Ive and Altman are choosing to zag. Can they pull it off?

Nigeria’s tech industry is ready to boom, thanks to an ambitious young workforce. We meet the “Zuck of Nigeria,” along with other top founders who see the co...

Answer (1 of 9): Sigh. Had a look at your feed, so I know you’re trolling. But for the rest of the people in the group: The STATE of California just passed the COUNTRY of Japan for the 4th biggest economy in the world. And that’s what the OP calls a “mess.” “But… San Francisco!” Yes, the hom...

Answer (1 of 16): Has, will, can Trump's American tariff-ghetto resurrect domestic appliance manufacturing? It hasn't. It won't. It can't. The math confirms it. The simplest logistical analyses reveal multiple insurmountable obstacles to making America a self-sufficient manufacturer. (Forget the...

Tesla is helping shape new U.S. laws for self-driving cars. New Jersey dropped 64 Superchargers for a weaker vendor. Tesla warns cutting energy credits could...

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The president’s assault on science dangerously undermines America’s superpower status.