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The pneumatic tube mail was a postal system operating in New York City from 1897 to 1953 using pneumatic tubes. Similar systems had arisen in the mid-19th century in London, via the London Pneumatic Despatch Company; in Manchester and other British cities; and in Paris via the Paris pneumatic post.
A pneumatic tube system in Washington, D.C., in 1943. ... Pneumatic post or pneumatic mail is a system to deliver letters through pressurized air tubes.
The Paris pneumatic post was a pneumatic tube message-carrying service that operated in the French capital from 1866. It was established because of the popularity of the electric telegraph in the city which had led to the signal cables becoming overloaded and messages being sent by road.
The pneumatic post in Berlin remained in operation "de jure" until the surrender of the German Wehrmacht on May 8, 1945. The express delivery service of the post office, on the other hand, was discontinued on August 14, 1944, due to a shortage of personnel and an extremely increased volume of mail.
Prague pneumatic post (Czech: Pražská potrubní pošta) is the world's last preserved municipal pneumatic post system. [1] It is an underground system of metal tubes under the wider centre of Prague , totaling about 55 km (34 miles) in length. [ 2 ]
First dispatch of mail bags through the pneumatic tube from the district office in Eversholt Street to Euston Station. Illustrated London News, 28 February 1863. A permanent line of 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge was constructed between Euston railway station and the North West District Post Office in Eversholt Street, a distance of approximately a third of a mile.