Railway Express Fast Dependable Service Poster

From www.railphotoexpress.biz; Your items will travel in fast dependable through railroad service. Railway Express is (was) nation wide. Passenger trains that stopped at every city and town carried Railway Express Agency items. Before the time of the Interstate Highway System, Passenger Trains were the only link to the outside world for US Mail and Railway Express Packages. The Railway Express arrangement with the railroads was that they provided terminal space and cars and moved the cars at their expense; REA paid its own expenses and divided the profit among the railroads in proportion to the traffic. Express service in Canada and Mexico was operated directly by the railroad companies. Express revenues remained at profitable levels into the 1950's, partly because of rate increases. Express volume dropped substantially after World War II. The railroads began to view express service as expensive business. Congress approved a law on August 24, 1912 creating postal rates for fourth class mail and providing for parcel post service. This also was carried on Passenger Trains in The U.S. Mail.