National Postal Museum
Rural letter carrier's handmade sorting bag
After 1896
This unique hand-sown cloth bag is divided into pockets, each labeled with the name of a postal patron. A rural delivery carrier designed and fabricated the bag to sort the mail for delivery in the order of the residences along his route.
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