WWII - 1944, USA Homefront: New Army Overseas Post Office Handles Millions of Parcels

WWII - 1944, USA Homefront: New Army Overseas Post Office Handles Millions of Parcels Intertitle: New Army Overseas Post Office Handles Millions of Parcels. 06:13:51 High Angle / HA exterior large post office building dedicated entirely to mail for the armed forces. 06:13:55 Interior, loading dock w/ carts moving to trucks for dispatch. Soldiers emptying packages out of mailbags. 06:14:03 Postmaster General Walker & New York Postmaster Goldman walking thru on visit, look at packages. 06:14:12 Postmaster General speech, SOF: “All these buildings were erected solely for the purpose of making it possible for getting the packages overseas for our Armed Forces. Last year my friends we sent approximately 24 million packages overseas; this year the postal department & the Army Postal Service will send more than 70 million packages overseas.” 06:14:33 Women throwing packages into large canvas tubs / containers. Soldiers dumping mail bags. 1940s; WW2; Communications;