The site of Detroit's current main Post Office was actually for this very reason, directly aside the entry tracks for Fort Street Union Station, which at the time served both C&O/B&O and Wabash passenger trains, all of which carried RPO's. The C&O even pioneered the use of "truc-trains," early Triple-Crown style trailers which carried mail directly to Grand Rapids and Chicago [[and not worked en-route). The Post Office also had facilities adjacent to the MC Station. I believe the building that poor guy fell down the elevator shaft in and was encased in ice in was an old postal facility. Right next to that now-abandoned building is another old postal facility, which is still owned by USPS and is where they repair and maintain their postal trucks locally.Some of the large city post offices were located so as to be near the railroad station[[s) to facilitate interface with the RPO system.
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