parcel post
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Postal Department established parcel post and more than a decade before the Railway Express Agency.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 20, 2023
Forget the internet and delivery drivers, Pryce Jones used the superhighway of the day - the railway and parcel post.
From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2020
On this date in 1924, the first parcel post package was sent by airmail from Tucson to New York.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 21, 2017
The catalog business was helped along by a technological innovation — parcel post, which arrived in 1913.
From New York Times ● May 13, 2016
But with the establishment of the parcel post in 1913 the character of the express business underwent a radical change.
From The Express Companies of the United States A Study of a Public Utility by Bert Benedict
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