The one government agency that still reaches nearly every American daily — undeterred by rain, sleet, snow or even gloom of night — turns 250 on Saturday. Established in 1775, when the Second ...
The one government agency that still reaches nearly every American daily — undeterred by rain, sleet, snow or even gloom of night — turns 250 on Saturday. Established in 1775, when the Second ...
The first organized postal system in the United States was officially established on July 26, 1775, and it’s been an integral part of American society ever since. From delivery by horseback to the ...
It was on this day in 1775 that the U.S. postal system was established by the Second Continental Congress, with Benjamin Franklin as its first postmaster general. Morris County officials have unveiled ...
This photo provided by the Library of Congress shows people at the Nethers, Va., post office in Oct. 1935, during the Great Depression. Barry Stevens, portraying Benjamin Franklin, right, walks past a ...