Mail Automat

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Title: Mail Automat
Creator(s): St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Ockrassa, Paul
Date: 1962-11-14
1962-11-15
Content Type: picture
Subject(s): Union Station (Saint Louis, Mo.)
Blue collar workers
Terminal Railroad Association of Saint Louis
Aerojet-General Corporation
Letter services
Geographic Area: Saint Louis (Mo.)
Time Period: 1960-1969
Description: Another bygone activity at Union Station: Railway mail service. A new automatic mail-sack handling system which saves $1,000,000 a year, displaces 175 jobs and speeds up mail distribution from trains at St. Louis' Union Station was dedicated Wednesday. Photo above shows the mail coming down hoppers to be dumped into chutes leading to trains.
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Classification: GDPS001326.tif
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