Railway Mail Service clerks
had a hard job, trying conditions
Train Robberies
From the start of the Railway Mail Service in America in 1832, postal clerks who rode with the mail did so under life-threatening conditions. Ever present were the duel dangers of robberies and wrecks.
Railway Mail Service clerks were highly skilled and expected to sort six hundred pieces of mail per hour in cramped conditions on moving trains.
Small fortunes transported in mail…