I recently stumbled across an article, found here, that is from a popular science magazine in 1951.

They show what would happen to your mail if you sent it to or from an address in New York City.
Whats really cool about the whole thing is that they had these huge pneumatic tubes that they separated the mail into, before they sent them to other parts of their mail system.

Here’s the link: What happens when you send mail

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