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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. Following the creation of the first American pneumatic mail system in Philadelphia in 1893, New York City's system was begun, initially only between the old General Post Office on Park Row and the Produce Exchange on Bowling Green, a distance of 3,750 feet (1,140 m).[1][2]
Eventually the network stretched up both sides of Manhattan Island all the way to Manhattanville on the West side and "Triborough" in East Harlem, forming a loop running a few feet below street level. Travel time from the General Post Office to Harlem was 20 minutes. A crosstown line connected the two parallel lines between the new General Post office on the West Side and Grand Central Terminal on the east, and took four minutes for mail to traverse. Using the Brooklyn Bridge, a spur line also ran from Church Street, in lower Manhattan, to the general post office in Brooklyn (now Cadman Plaza), taking four minutes.[1] Operators of the system were called "Rocketeers".[3]
Though 10 cities were funded for pneumatic-mail, the New York operation was developed the most.
By 1907 contracts were issued in five other cities (Boston, Brooklyn, Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Louis), but not in four cities (Baltimore, Cincinnati, Kansas City, San Francisco).[2] The system was discontinued in 1953.
^ abYoung, Michelle (15 March 2013). "Then & Now: NYC's Pneumatic Tube Mail Network". Untapped Cities: Urban discovery from a New York perspective. Retrieved 17 October 2013.
^ abUnited States. Congress. Joint Commission to Investigate the Pneumatic-Tube Mail Service (1917). Development of the Pneumatic-tube and Automobile Mail Service: Excerpts from Reports of the Postmasters General and Their Assistants to Congress; Various Departmental and Congressional Commission Reports, Including Certain Testimony, and Sundry Exhibits Relative to the Pneumatic-tube and Automobile Mail Service. U.S. Government Printing Office.
^Garber, Megan (13 August 2013). "That Time People Sent a Cat Through the Mail Using Pneumatic Tubes". The Atlantic. Retrieved 18 October 2013.
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