French postal service. Sorting letters on the

French postal service. Sorting letters on the Paris-Marseilles express by the light of oil lamps. The expansion of the railway network in the nineteenth century greatly improved mail services. Dedicated overnight mail trains, or mail carriages attached to scheduled trains, enabled mail to be sorted en route to a distribution centre. Engraving from Le Journal de la Jeunesse (Paris, 1886)

Dedicated Distribution Enabled Expansion Greatly Improved Jeunesse Journal Lamps Network Overnight Postal Scheduled Sorted Sorting

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