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

Charles L. Wesley Sr., 100, a parcel post supervisor with the U.S.

From Washington Post • Jan. 5, 2015

Parcel Post Service.—In many countries the post office department also performs, through the parcel post service, what amounts to an express business.

From Government in the United States National, State and Local by Garner, James Wilford