The name of the Railway Mail Service was changed to
the Postal Transportation Service after so many RPO trains
were eliminated and replaced with "Highway Post Offices"
(basically the same as RPOs but in bus-type vehicles).
That was many years before the RPOs (and HPOs)
were discontinued entirely.
Wes Leatherock
wleath@s...
On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Ken martin wrote:
> Ed DeRouin wrote:
> >
> > Wes and Hubert:
> >
> > Wes wrote:
> >
> > > A nitpick: it was the Post Office Department (USPOD) until 1970.
> > > The mail business was reorganized as the Post Service (USPS), an
> > > independent government agency, in that year.
> >
> > Thanks for that detail and the feed back.
> >
>
> For further information the railroad part of the Post Office used to be the
> Railway Mail Service.
>
> I have a Xerox of a 1916 letter from the Railway Mail Service to the
> Colorado and Southern regarding narrow gauge baggage-mail #10.
>
> When the Railway Mail Service was done away with I have no information.
>
> Ken Martin
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