REA Express, Inc.

REA Express, Inc.

▪ American company
formerly (1918–29)  American Railway Express Company , or (1929–70)  Railway Express Agency, Inc. 

      American company that at one time operated the nation's largest ground and air express services, transporting parcels, money, and goods, with pickup and delivery.

      American Railway Express Company was established by the U.S. government in 1918, during World War I, at the same time that the government took over the nation's railroads. The domestic express businesses and property of the nation's major express carriers—Adams & Company (founded 1842), American Express Company (founded 1850), Wells, Fargo & Company (founded 1852), and Southern Express Company (founded 1861)—were expropriated and merged into a public corporation. After the war the domestic express businesses were not returned to their original owners (unlike the return of the railroads) but remained with the American Railway Express Company.

      On Dec. 7, 1928, however, 86 of the nation's railroads joined in setting up Railway Express Agency, Inc., which in 1929 bought out the American Railway Express Company and proceeded to operate the express business under private ownership. Forty years later, a group of the company's officials secured controlling interest in the company, and in 1970 the company's name was changed to REA Express, Inc. Faulty management, strikes by the Brotherhood of Railway & Airline Clerks, and competition from the U.S. Postal Service and United Parcel Service led to drastic financial losses, and on Feb. 18, 1975, REA filed for bankruptcy and was adjudicated bankrupt the following November.

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