The rural post office in Canada was once a vibrant institution of sociability and communication. The mail brought books, magazines, newspapers, letters, sometimes money, and parcels. The small-town economy was aided by postal saving banks, the money order, and the mail-order catalog. Country Post recreates the postal world before the era of telephones and television through photographs and interviews with postmasters from all regions of Canada.
- ISBN10 0660189984
- ISBN13 9780660189987
- Publish Date 1 January 2004 (first published 1 January 2003)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country CA
- Publisher The University of Chicago Press
- Imprint Canadian Museum of Nature
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 212
- Language English