The good (?) old days

In response to a query as to whatever happened to Railway Express

Now that you mention it, Railway Express was used by purveyors of pornography to avoid Post Office prosecution. There were also post offices on trains where mail was sorted as it was picked up by hooks that hung out and snatched the mail bags at whistle stops where the train was not going to stop. Mail was also dropped off in the same manner. Imagine sorting mail in a rocking train! I sorted mail in the post office for a few summers in the '30s and it was hard enough to get it right standing on terra firma. Gone, man; man, gone . . . Norman