Mailboxes on Street Cars

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 7, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 39.

Mailboxes on Street Cars

LETTER boxes have been attached to the street cars in Huddersfield, England, and letters can be posted in these boxes as the cars are traversing the suburbs, the boxes being emptied by the post office employees on the arrival of the car at or near the central post office on each trip. If a person stops the car especially for the purpose of mailing a letter, a penny is collected by the conductor, and deposited in the fare box. This doubles the cost of sending the letter, but the advantage of an immediate special delivery is secured, and letters are greatly expedited by the scheme. The scheme is yet an experiment, but it is largely approved.—Scientific American.