HISTORY
This town has a revolutionary ZIP Code
If you’ve ever wondered what locale wound up with the exceptionally patriotic ZIP Code that tips a postal hat to ...
Inside the U.S. Post Office’s revolution, by foot, horseback, and helicopter
In 1954, the USPS was looking for innovative ways to process the 54 billion items mailed. National Geographic traveled to ...
This letter carrier received the Medal of Honor
On May 9, 1900, former Army Sgt. William H. Carney became the first African American to receive the Medal of ...
How airmail helped launch modern aviation
The U.S. Postal Service, backed by Congress, began expanding experimental airmail routes. Many of the pilots flying those early missions ...
How Americans used to get their weather from the post office
Back in the late 1800s and early 1900s, one of the best ways to get your forecast was through a ...
The ‘Lady Mailman’ of the nation’s capital dies
Evelyn Marguerite Craig, the first woman letter carrier to deliver mail in Washington, DC, since World War II, died March ...
Today marks the anniversary of the 1970 postal strike
Today marks the anniversary of the 1970 postal strike, when letter carriers stood up after years of “collectively begging” and ...
Jeep DJ-5E Electruck: A Long-Forgotten Electric Mail Truck Tested by NASA
Little do most know, USPS tried and succeeded in producing a small handful of electric mail trucks as far back ...
“The December Dilemma” puts its stamp on postal intrigue
Disappointed in the Christmas Wreath and Candles issued in 1962, the Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee-2 vowed, “to produce a fine art ...
The disappearing art gallery in your post office
To lift the United States out of the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt put Americans to work building roads ...