Pneumatic Tube Systems | Rohrpost | Buizenpost

The city mail by means of Pneumatic Tube Systems, was in the end of 19th and the beginning of the 20th century an important phenomenon. "The destruction of the pneumatic city mail", a very nice article from 1998, describes the arise of the Pneumatic City Mail in a number of European cities.

"Under numerous European metropoles lie broadly branched, pneumatic mini subway's gone to rust. Ever were these super-fast transport systems with a diameter of seven centimetres, in which annually millions dispatches, letters and parcels zoomed back and forth.
Marten Minkema does not understand why..."  Read more »

So, pneumatic tube systems were used in a lot of large cities in the world for the transport of mail. Here you see an overview of these Pneumatic City Mail installations ordered by country. By city you find a description of the installation and also a gallery with unique photos of the technique, but also of letters, postcards and postage stamps!

Pneumatic mail in Algeria Algiers Pneumatic mail in Argentina Buenos Aires Pneumatic mail in Austria Vienna Pneumatic mail in Brazil Rio de Janeiro São Paulo Pneumatic mail in Czech Karlsbad Prague Pneumatic mail in Germany Berlin Bremen Chemnitz Cologne Dresden Dortmund Düsseldorf Frankfurt am Main Hamburg Leipzig Mannheim Munich Nürnberg Pneumatic mail in France Marseille Paris Pneumatic mail in the Great Britain Birmingham Glasgow Liverpool London Manchester Newcastle

Pneumatic mail in Hungary Budapest Pneumatic mail in Ireland Dublin Pneumatic mail in Italy Florence Genoa Milan Naples Rome Trieste Turin Vatican City Pneumatic mail in the Netherlands Amsterdam Rotterdam Pneumatic mail in Portugal Lisbon Pneumatic mail in Russia Leningrad Pneumatic mail in Switzerland Geneva Lausanne Zürich Pneumatic mail in the United States of America Boston Brooklyn Chicago New York Philadelphia St. Louis