National Postal Museum
Rural Free Delivery wagon
L.C. Graves · 1899
Rural Free Delivery (RFD), which began as an experiment in a few West Virginia towns on October 1, 1896, quickly became one of the Post Office Department’s most popular services. There was no denying that the service was here to stay and in 1902 it became an official service covering over 186,000 miles. By 1910, the RFD service reached rural Americans along almost one million miles of county roads across the continental United States.
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