National Postal Museum
Transorma Mail Sorting Machine sign
Werkspoor N.V., Dutch · 1957
One of the ongoing challenges of the Post Office Department over the course of the twentieth century was sorting an ever-increasing mail volume. The Department took a step towards solving this problem on April 10, 1957, with the installation of the first semiautomatic sorting machine at the Blair Post Office in Silver Spring, Maryland.
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