Wes,
I used to handle mail sacks at Kansas City Union Station. After receiving
mail from the Post Office, loading a mail storage car was hard work of
course. Several men forming a chain. The lead man grabbing the mail off a
baggage wagon and passing the the sacks to the next, and so on while the end
man built the stack to a mark on the wall almost to the ceiling of the car.
Magazine sacks were dreaded because they were heavy. It would seem to me that
sidings next to printing plants were for raw paper cars. Usually large rolls
in boxcars.
To get magazines into the Postal system, they had to pass through the post
office first. Ofcourse maybe it worked differently in some other part of the
country.
Hubert
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