mail cars
Train postal compartments
Mail cars are railroad cars designed to transport and sort postal mail.
Before air freight dominated, mail cars were essential to postal systems—clerks aboard would sort letters en route to speed delivery.
The term appears mostly in historical contexts now: The old mail cars sat rusting in the rail yard.
- parcelsWrapped items for delivery
- postalOf mail service
- postal serviceNational mail delivery system
- stampsPostal payment adhesives
- airmail stampsPostage for flying letters
letters · packages · envelopes · railway · iron horse · expresses · dead letter office · mailbag · sorting · freight · railroads · rail network · train robbery · shipping · delivery · overnight delivery · transportation · postal routes
- railroadstrains, train, tracks, track, locomotive
- railcarsrailcars, railcar, rolling stock, boxcars, flatcars
mail carspassenger cars
Vehicles for transporting people
Pullman cars · sleeper cars · passenger coaches · dining cars · observation cars
mail, car, mails, mailed, mailing, mailer, mailman, mailbox, cars