Tag: HISTORY

Goldman was the “father of the Santa Claus fund.” TIME recorded in 1941 that Goldman was “official opener of letters-to-Santa Claus.”

A 25-foot-tall control center watched over three miles of conveyer belts and state-of-the-art culling, positioning, sorting and canceling machines in a facility that covered 13 acres

We've said it before: In South Florida, where some think nothing happened until Henry Flagler showed up, a century is a long, long time. 

Arguably, the first modern, production EV from a major automaker was the 1974 AM General DJ-5E Electruck.

A couple of articles I came across on postal history

On Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc on the Gulf Coast, prompting a Herculean effort from the Postal Service to keep the mail moving.

USPS letter carrier Patrick H. Sherrill, a "disgruntled postal worker," fit the profile of a potential mass killer. A socially inept loner, he was unable to hold a job for long and blamed management for his problems.

US Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission in 2013 vacated heat stress citations issued by OSHA against the Postal Service, citing that the agency didn’t sufficiently identify specific measures the Postal Service could have taken to reduce heat hazards.

Christopher Warren shares one of the strangest chapters in U.S. Postal Service history: the time when Americans actually sent children through the mail. In the early 1900s, families, especially in rural areas, took advantage of parcel post rules to ship their kids across towns, counties, and even state lines

But if you want to send a love letter, a bill, a care package, or even an order of fast-food French fries to a sailor traversing Michigan’s waterways, remember 48222. It’s the only non-military “floating” postal code in the country, and it’s based right here in Michigan on the J.W. Westcott II mail boat.

In another misstep, someone in the Post Office Department misspelled the name yet again when approving the request. The error was never corrected.

Before America had the Declaration of Independence, much less the Constitution, the nation had the Postal Service.