Postal service

New York City mail carriers leave the General Post Office in the rain with another load of Christmas mail.

Inside view of U.S. Postal Station No. 54, Washington, D.C., as lines of people wait for service during the Christmas rush. From: Truman Home.

Inside view of U.S. Postal Station No. 54, Washington, D.C., as lines of people wait for service during the Christmas rush. In the background is a poster advertising Margaret Truman's latest concert. From: Truman Home.

Inside view of U.S. Postal Station No. 54, Washington, D.C. showing lines of people waiting for service during the Christmas rush. From: Truman Home.

Kent, Ohio: Interior of the new U. S. Post Office Highway Truck, which carries 30 percent more mail than apartment type rail post offices.

Presentation of painting pertaining to the Post Office to Assistant Postmaster General Paul C. Aiken (center) by two unidentified persons.

Assistant Postmaster General Paul C. Aiken holds a package on the inauguration of Air Parcel Post. Others are unidentified.

Workers are shown sorting mail inside the Burlington Silver Post United States Mail Railway Post Office at Chicago, Illinois. See also 2000-142.

Paul C. Aiken, Assistant Postmaster General, (standing on platform in center with unknown woman) at ceremonies introducing one of the new Highway Post Office vehicles. City is unknown.

Paul C. Aiken, Assistant Postmaster General (center) and three unknown men touring the first railway Post Office.