Front:
J.W.WESTCOTT-II
U.S.MAIL
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J.W. WESTCOTT II MAIL BOAT
Detroit River, Michigan 48222
The only boat in the world with an exclusive
Zip Code Number. (J. W. Westcott is postmaster
of the Great Lakes.) The year 1969 begins the
75th year of direct ship-to-ship mail deliveries.
Operates 24 hours-a-day from mid-April to
mid-December. The Westcott II takes mail from
the postal station on First Street in Detroit and
meets Great Lakes freighters and keeps pace with
the moving freighter while a crewman lowers
a mailbucket down over the side and into the
cabin of the mailboat, and in seconds hauls it up
again. Then the Westcott is on its way to shore.
Pub. by Laura N. Goldberg, Hazel Park, Mich. 48030
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