“ OUR POST OFFICE ” 1956 EDUCATIONAL FILM UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE MAILMAN AIR MAIL XD80454b

Join this channel to get access to perks: Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit Visit our website This 1956 film “Our Post Office“ is presented by Encyclopedia Britannica films (:11). The feature shows the many benefits of the United States post office and how mail moves. EB Films was a major producer and distributor of educational films for school and library use during the 1940’s through to the 1990’s. The film opens as two children named Susan and Jimmy address a letter (:33) to order a gift for their mother’s birthday. They are ordering through a mail order catalogue (:43). Susan shows Jimmy how to properly address a letter (1:05). The zip codes on both addresses are noted (1:22). The catalogue asks for money order or check (1:37). Susan travels to the post office in Evanston to retrieve a money order (1:41). The girl meets with the post office clerk to purchase a money order (1:54). The postal money order is zoomed in on (2:02). Jimmy purchases stamps for the letter (2:12). The clerk then instructs Susan to write the name of the company (2:29). The seal for the Post Office Department of the United States (2:44) appears. Each town houses a post office (2:52). The children ensure the letter is ready to mail with the money order set inside (3:08). Jimmy tosses the letter into the ‘out of town letters’ slot (3:24). The camera pans to the other side of the slot as letters are collected (3:31) to be mailed out. Letters are taken to a sorting table (3:35). Mail can be shipped by truck or air mail (3:44). An eight cent US Air Mail stamp is highlighted to show the increased cost for rapid transit (3:48). Air Mail letters are set together (3:52). A letter designated for special delivery follows (3:52). These are also set together separately (3:59). Letters are sent through the cancelation machine (4:04). The postmark on the young children’s letter is zoomed in on (4:17). A post office employee works to cancel some letters by hand (4:33). Postal clerks sort letters (4:41). A letter addressed to be shipped to a foreign country appears (5:01). One man works on a case which is specially bound for Wisconsin (5:12). Jimmy and Susan’s letter are set into a slot for Milwaukee (5:23). A clerk removes letters from a full slot (5:30). A machine at the post office works to rapidly tie bundles together (5:37). Bundles are tossed into pouches (5:41). Parcel posts are sorted (5:58). These are tossed into hampers (6:07) and then into mail sacks (6:12). The sacks are locked in order to keep mail safe (6:34). Pouches are piled high onto a cart (6:42) to be moved by truck (6:53). TWA Convair 880 jet plane takes off (7:00). The mail will first go to an airmail post office at the airport (7:07). Mail is moved up and onto a conveyor belt (7:08). Mail may also move by diesel train (7:32). Mail is unloaded from the railway post office aboard the Chicago and Northwestern train (7:40). Clerks sort through pouches collected from different city post offices (8:05). Bundles are sorted (8:11). A pistol hangs from every clerk’s waistband in order to protect the mail (8:23). Pouches which are to be dropped off are stacked near the door (8:31). Mail carriers arrive at the Evanston post office (8:45). Carriers arrange letters in the order with which they are to deliver them (9:07). Parcel post is also arranged in the same way (9:12). A package addressed to Jimmy and Susan appears (9:21). The package containing the gift ordered for their mother’s birthday sits on the coffee table as the kids arrive home from school (9:32). The three of them open the gift together (9:49). We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: “01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference.“ This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit