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• Express service -- United States
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• The Story of the Pony Express: An Account of the Most Remarkable Mail Service Ever in Existence, and Its Place in History, by Glenn D. Bradley (Gutenberg text)

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• The Express Companies of the United States: A Study of a Public Utility (New York: Intercollegiate Socialist Society, 1919), by Bertram Benedict, contrib. by Harry W. Laidler
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Implications of Electronic Mail and Message Systems for the U.S. Postal Service (1982), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• The Post Office Ban on "Revolutionary Age" (1931), by American Civil Liberties Union (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Correspondence Between the President of the Virginia Central Rail Road Company and the Postmaster General, in Relation to Postal Services (Richmond, VA: Printed by Ritchie and Dunnavant, 1864), by Virginia Central Railroad Company
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Mike Flannery On Duty and Off (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1909), by Ellis Parker Butler, illust. by G. C. Widney (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Mike Flannery On Duty and Off (New York: A. L. Burt Co., 1909), by Ellis Parker Butler, illust. by G. C. Widney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mike Flannery On Duty and Off (Toronto: Musson Book Co., 1909), by Ellis Parker Butler, illust. by G. C. Widney (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Friarswood Post-Office, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)

• Dictionnaire des Postes: Contenant le Nom de Toutes les Villes, Bourgs, Paroisses, Abbayes, et Principaux Châteaux du Royaume de France et du Duché de Lorraine (in French; Paris: Chez la veuve Delatour, 1754), by Edme-Gilles Guyot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionnaire Géographique des Postes aux Lettres de Tous les Départemens de la République Française (3 volumes in French; Paris: Impr. de Valade, 1802), by A. F. Lecousturier and F. Chaudouet (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance (second edition: Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1885), by James Wilson Hyde (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Post Haste: A Tale of Her Majesty's Mails, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)

• Information and Empire: Mechanisms of Communication in Russia, 1600-1850 (Cambridge, UK et al.: Open Book Publishers, c2017), ed. by Simon Franklin and Katherine Bowers (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Lotteries, Frauds and Obscenity in the Mails (Columbia, MO: Press of E. W. Stephens, 1900), by John Lilburn Thomas (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Postal Laws and Regulations of the United States of America: Compiled, Revised, and Published in Accordance with the Act of Congress Approved March 3, 1891 (Washington: GPO, 1893), by United States (page images at HathiTrust)

• Das Nachrichtenwesen des Altertums, mit Besonderer Rücksicht auf die Römer (in German; Leipzig and Berlin: B. G. Teubner, 1913), by Wolfgang Riepl
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Ivar: or, The Skjuts-Boy (London: Office of the Illustrated London Library, 1852), by Emilie Flygare-Carlén, trans. by A. L. Krause, illust. by Edmund Evans (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• List of Post Offices in the United States (1859), by United States Post Office Department (page images at MOA)
• Report to Hon. A. V. Brown, Postmaster-General, on the Opening and Present Condition of the United States Overland Mail Route Between San Antonio, Texas, and San Diego, California, by Isaiah Churchill Woods (page images at MOA)
• Ten Years Among the Mail Bags (Philadelphia: H. Cowperthwait and Co., 1855), by James Holbrook (page images at MOA)
• The Panama Route, 1848-1869 (University of California Publications in History v29; Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1943), by John Haskell Kemble (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Report of the Naval Committee to the House of Representatives, August, 1850, In Favor of the Establishment of a Line of Mail Steamships to the Western Coast of Africa, and Thence Via the Mediterranean to London (Washington: Gideon and Co., 1850), by United States House Committee on Naval Affairs
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA

• The Express Companies of the United States: A Study of a Public Utility (New York: Intercollegiate Socialist Society, 1919), by Bertram Benedict, contrib. by Harry W. Laidler
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Overland Routes to the Pacific: The Butterfield Contract (1859), by Republican Association of Washington (multiple formats at archive.org)