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Almost 170 years of railway and postal history has ended as the last British mail train pulled into Penzance station. The Royal Mail’s Traveling Post Office, on which mail workers would sort up to 3,000 letters an hour as the train raced across the country, was shut down for cost-cutting reasons. Royal Mail operations will now be by truck and air. The first traveling post office, a converted horse box, ran Jan. 20, 1838.
