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The Railway Mail Clerk and the Highway Office

by Ken (H.K.) Culbreth

166 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #06-2308; ISBN 1-4251-0550-5; US$15.00, C$17.25, EUR12.32, £8.63

The history of The Railway Mail Service and many first hand stories as well as some from other Railway Mail Clerks and some from the history of the Railway Mail Service, starting in the 1860's.

About the Book

A first hand report of how The US Mail Service really worked for over a century. Kennith Culbreth started his Postal Career in the early 1960's and worked in his early years as a Substitute Railway Mail Clerk in the two Carolinas. The personal and hand-me-down stories tell what the work was like and how these Postal Workers took pride in their work.

About the Author

This is the author's fourth book. Others include: Is Kenly An Animal Too? (short stories about growing up in the Western Carolinas in the 1930's & 1940's), War Clouds Looming When We Were Young (short stories about being a teenager growing up when a major war is breaking out),200,000 Boys On A Rock Called Guam (gives the reader a "feel" for what it is like to be 18 years old and part of a war that is to change the world).

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