Pneumatic post or pneumatic mail is a system to deliver letters through pressurized air tubes.

Pneumatic post systems were used in several large cities starting in the second half of the 19th century ( including an 1866 London system powerful and large enough to transport humans during trial runs – though not intended for the purpose ), but were largely abandoned during the 20th century.

* Pneumatic post stamps — for mail sent using pressurized air tubes, only produced in Italy.

** Pneumatic post, using capsules to move paper and small goods through tubes.

A Pneumatic gun differs from a rubber model in that it has a thicker spear that goes inside a sealed internal barrel encased in a hollow sealed outer casing that contains the air which is at ambient pressure until it is pumped up by hand to a pressure usually equal to one strong rubber band.

Pneumatic collection trucks have a crane with a tube and a mouthpiece that fits in a hole, usually hidden under a plate under the street.

Pneumatic motors generally convert the compressed air to mechanical work though either linear or rotary motion.

Pneumatic motors have found widespread success in the hand-held tool industry and continual attempts are being made to expand their use to the transportation industry.

* Pneumatic conveying systems often employ filtration to stop or slow the flow of material that is transported, through the use of a baghouse.

By 1794 Watt had been chosen by Thomas Beddoes to manufacture apparatus to produce, clean and store gases for use in the new Pneumatic Institution at Hotwells in Bristol.

Watt continued to experiment with various gases for several years, but by 1797 the medical uses for the " factitious airs " had come to a dead end. Scientific apparatus designed by Boulton and Watt in preparation of the Pneumatic Institution in Bristol

Pneumatic tubes ( or capsule pipelines ; also known as Pneumatic Tube Transport or PTT ) are systems in which cylindrical containers are propelled through a network of tubes by compressed air or by partial vacuum.

Pneumatic capsule transportation was originally invented by William Murdoch.

Pneumatic tubes in use at a drive-through bank.

Pneumatic tube systems are used in science, to transport samples during neutron activation analysis.

Until it closed in early 2011, a McDonald's in Edina, Minnesota claimed on its receipts to be the " World's Only Pneumatic Air Drive-Thru ," sending food from their strip-mall location to a drive-through in the middle of a parking lot.

It was invented by the Scottish engineer William Murdoch in the 19th century and was later developed by the London Pneumatic Despatch Company.

In 1861, the London Pneumatic Despatch Company built a system large enough to move a person, although it was intended for parcels.

In 1869, the Beach Pneumatic Transit Company of New York secretly constructed a 95 m long, 2. 7 m diameter pneumatic subway line under Broadway, to demonstrate the possibilities of the new transport mode.

In Ghostbusters II, the " river of slime " under New York city is found by the Ghostbusters boys to be flowing through an old pneumatic tube line – a reference to the Beach Pneumatic Transit tube.

In the 1998 PC game Grim Fandango, Pneumatic tubes play a role in the part of the story that takes place at Manny's office.

In Portal and Portal 2, two other popular games, Aperture Science uses Pneumatic tubes to transport larger-scale objects such as boxes of all kinds throughout their enrichment center.

* Pneumatic mail article from the U. S. National Postal Museum

Pneumatic, hydraulic, water, and electrical systems may also be identified.

Anderson operated three Havana automobile service stations and was commander of the Havana American Legion post before it disbanded since the start of Fidel Castro's regime.

600, 000 rioting workers cut power and telephone lines and seized the city's post office, police headquarters, and railway stations, often after heavy fighting.

The central government employed thousands of postal workers of various ranks and responsibilities to provide service for post offices and larger postal stations.

In the United States, official pictorial cancellations are almost invariably applied at special " stations ", i. e., post offices existing only for a limited time, usually one day, at special events, although there are frequently other pictorial cancellations that are not officially described as such — they are among what are called special cancellations and are special die-hubs added to machine cancels, which usually contain merely a slogan but sometimes contain a picture.

The name occurs twice in other parts of Italy as the name of post stations.

There are two gas stations, several saloons, a post office, and several restaurants.

Besides nearby downtown Ojai, Oak View is the only other town in the Ojai Valley with a discernible " downtown ", which has developed along the Ventura Avenue / Highway 33 corridor, and includes a post office, a grocery store and a grocery mart, one bank, a Thai restaurant, a coffee house / restaurant, a Mexican restaurant, a pizza parlor, two automobile repair shops, two tire shops, two self-serve gasoline stations, two coffee shops, a computer repair shop, an equipment rental yard, several hair stylists, a pet supplies store, a bar, a liquor store, a walk-in medical office, a real estate office, a car wash, a laundromat, a used car dealership, a tanning salon, a Sheriff's post, a video store, and other service and retail oriented businesses.

There are ten businesses which include: service stations, grocery markets, post office, garage and the Holiday Inn, located on I-75 within the city limits of Jennings.

The town has its own small police station, as well as a post office and two volunteer fire stations ( in New Boston and west of the town center ).

The town operates its own police, fire and public works departments, with two fire stations and two post offices.

There is one police station, three fire stations ( near Five Corners, Easton Green and North Easton ), three post offices ( near Easton Green, near Five Corners, and in North Easton ) and one library ( Ames Free Library, at the center of North Easton ).

The town has one library ( the Millicent Library ), two fire stations ( the Central and East Fairhaven stations ), a central police department, and one post office, located behind the library.

Typical of the town's nature, there are separate fire stations, post offices and libraries in Assonet & East Freetown.

Callaway holds a chapel, gas stations, and several other businesses, including a post office.

Two gas stations, two nursing homes, apartments, grocery store, hardware store, welding shop, two restaurants, post office, two banks, two liquor stores, school, two parks, boat landing, two RV parkings, and logging resources.

The town of Renville includes a small grocery store ( Maynerds ), clinic, 2 thrift shoppes, K-12 school, 2 gas stations, 1 restaurant, hardware store, dentist, 3 parks, post office, fitness center, library, police station, community center, hair salon, 2 bars, and an auto dealership.

They included a grocery store, post office, cafe, and a tourist shop for drivers on U. S. Route 6, as well as corn and grain elevators and two gas stations.

Since the 1970s, several pirate radio stations have used the Belfast post office as a mail drop to receive letters from listeners.

During the feudal era of Japan, from around 1600 to the Meiji Restoration in 1867, travel was regulated within the country through the use of shukuba or post stations, towns in which travelers had to present appropriate documentation.

In 1801, the Danish post office installed a semaphore line across the Great Belt strait, Storebæltstelegrafen, between islands Funen and Zealand with stations at Nyborg on Funen, on the small island Sprogø in the middle of the strait, and at Korsør on Zealand.

Nevertheless, several Futurist buildings were built in the years 1920 – 1940, including public buildings such as railway stations, maritime resorts and post offices.