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Postal Service Growth Shows Flexibility and Expansion
In this 1932 Western Newspaper Union piece, the postal service is praised for ongoing growth from stagecoach era to transcontinental and transatlantic mail, with metered mail and newspaper handling reducing costs. It notes civil service permanence, political postmaster patronage concerns, and Congress control of rates except for airmail, which expands under postmaster general contracts to coast to coast and into the Argentine.
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Central
South America
Postal Service
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Canada
Gulf of Mexico
Western Newspaper Union