Mail catch on the fly

Mail catch on the fly

By Angela Cotey | July 8, 2024

| Last updated on August 7, 2025


Great Northern mail clerk Ben Russell grabs the pouch from the catcher after making the catch at Bethel, Minn., while working the Duluth & St. Paul Railway Post Office in fall 1968. This was one of the few RPOs to survive the big cutbacks of 1967.
Don Hofsommer photo

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