HISTORY
Putnam County Takes Flight: National Air Mail Week, 1938
In 1938, the U.S. Post Office sponsored National Air Mail Week, held from May 15 to 21, to commemorate the 20th anniversary ...
From 1925-1974, the postal system spearheaded innovations in delivery — and its own identity
The sky was the limit in 1925: An act of Congress authorized the postmaster general to contract for airmail service, ...
E-COM: The $40 million USPS project to send email on paper
Email, for just under three years, came in a blue-and-white envelope from the United States Postal Service ...
How the Most Remote Community in America Gets Its Mail
It was the beginning of what may be the country’s most unusual USPS route—the very last to deliver mail by mule ...
He was appointed by Truman – One of the nation’s longest-serving postmasters dies at 102
Kumley’s tenure as postmaster was the third-longest at the same office in postal history ...
The Post Office Department opened the first commercial telegraph on April 1, 1845
On April 1, 1845, the Post Office Department launched Samuel Morse’s telegraph into the wider world ...
Historic northern Minnesota log post office razed after nearly 90 years of operation
LAKE GEORGE, Minn. - Postcards claimed this log cabin nine miles east of Itasca State Park on Hwy. 71 was ...
From 1825-1874, a nimble postal system expanded with the nation
As 1825 dawned, the American postal network was still known as the General Post Office — but not for long ...
Mass Shooting at Montclair Post Office Remembered 30 Years Later
A former colleague shot Scott Walensky, 41, Ernie Spruill, 56, Robert S. Leslie, 37, George Lomaga, 59, and Dave Grossman, ...
An American postal network? It was a revolutionary idea
On July 26, 1775, about three months after the first clash between American Colonists and British soldiers in Massachusetts, Colonial ...