And, finally, in this video, a patient pair of horses waits while bales of Internal Revenue (tax) stamps are unloaded from the wagon.
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June 26, 2011
June 25, 2011
… with horses just standing around, swishing flies …
until the Mail Coach arrives in a hurry, tosses mail bags off, gets a few tossed onto the coach, and is driven quickly away.
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June 24, 2011
I hope you don’t mind, but I have a few more of these old mail-delivery videos to post. All three (today and over the weekend) are from 1903.
In this one, mail bags are loaded onto waiting wagons, and one of the wagons drives away. Then, at about the 50-second mark, a smaller vehicle arrives and the driver and single horse expertly back it up to the loading dock …
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June 23, 2011
… sort of.
This 1903 video shows a mail delivery vehicle waiting for bags of mail to be thrown off a passing streetcar in Washington, DC.
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June 22, 2011
From the Library of Congress: a video clip of a rural mail wagon in 1903.
Either there’s a driver hiding in the front of the wagon, or those horses really know their job and their route!
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The Slower Road 