Railway Mail Service: An Historical Sketch; Being a Lecture Delivered at the University of Chicago and at the University of Minnesota (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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But long before 18 30, the year of the opening of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, a single pouch ceased to hold all the mail on the heavy routes, and the simple methods that once obtained had given way to a more complicated system. As early as 1810 a law was passed authorizing the postmaster-general to establish distrib uting post-ol'fices, and he accordingly designated 35 offices as distributing ofl'ices. So far as I can learn these offices merely continued to do, but on a much larger scale, what they had already been doing for some time in a small way.

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