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Co-operative mailing rack
Object Details
- Description
- Co-operative mailing rack used in Eaton, Ohio; manufactured by The Thomson & Bishop Co., Inc. in Silver Spring, Maryland; item number 01196; sticker dated 1955; rectangular metal frame and panel mailing rack designed to hold three canvas sacks (sacks and labels not included with object); top openings are polished metal; on wheels with no rear panel to give the postal worker easy access to the mail sacks; the three designated slots were for local, out-of-town, and airmail; used in lobbies of large office buildings and developed in the 1950s under an initiative to innovate, improve, and modernize all aspects of the mail; combines collection and sorting processes with the idea that patrons sort their own outgoing mail and thus reduce labor at the post office
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- 1955
- Object number
- 2017.2001.1
- Type
- Mail Processing Equipment
- Medium
- metal; vinyl sticker; paint
- Dimensions
- Height x Width x Depth: 41 × 39 × 23 in. (104.14 × 99.06 × 58.42 cm) Height x Width x Depth (crate 66): 55 × 49 × 31 in. (139.7 × 124.46 × 78.74 cm)
- Place
- Ohio
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- National Postal Museum Collection
- Topic
- The Cold War (1945-1990)
- Record ID
- npm_2017.2001.1
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