Since passenger trains did not stop at every station along a particular route this was the fastest and most efficient way to pick up out-going mail, which was placed on a snagging device (known as a trackside mail crane) by the station postal agent. Likewise, if a train was dropping off mail but was not stopping at a particular station the on board agents would simply kick or toss it out the door making sure it traveled far enough away from the train not to get caught underneath it. Working as a clerk on board a Railway Post Office car meant you had to be very good at what you did and very fast, as sometimes you did not have a lot of time for sorting between routes. When sorting one's accuracy rate had to be extremely efficient as anything under near 100% could result in a reprimand or (if the work was really awful) an outright firing. The Hupp Automatic Railway Service or sometimes known as the Hupp Automatic Mail Exchange System is seen here circa 1912. It was designed to pick up mail automatically.
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Once upon a time keeping the mail moving and delivered on time meant that it traveled much of its journey via the railroads, and this was the job of the Railway Post Office (also known simply as the RPO). The RPO was essentially a moving post office and the clerks on board had to undergo rigorous training to make sure they could handle the blitzkrieg of work involved. Once the government contracted mail movements exclusively to the railroads soon after they became an efficient and recognized mode of transportation in the early part of the 19th century a new car was born to handle the work, the RPO. Depending on the volume of mail moving on a particular train it could have a dedicated RPO car or be included within a combine (a type of car that housed two types of services, such as space for general baggage or even a seating section for passengers). RPO route were numerous and many since mail had to reach every community in the United States. In his book, " The American Railroad Passenger Car (Part 2), " author John White, Jr. notes that during peak years 9, 000 trains carried mail via 200, 000 route miles.
An interior view of an RPO car taken on September 11, 1965 and owned by the Chicago & North Western. For more reading about RPOs the book American Passenger Train Equipment: 1940s-1980s by author Patrick Dorin provides a very nice general history of classic car types used in service (predominantly during the streamlined era) featuring many drawings and detailed information on several. Also, the book The Cars of Pullman from author Joe Welsh, Bill Howes, and Kevin Holland. As the title implies the book details and highlights the various types of cars Pullman built throughout the years, along with giving a general history of the company in the process. Home › Passenger Cars Railway Post Office