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Post Office trivia.

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1639. Richard Fairbank's tavern in Boston becomes the first repository for overseas mail.

1775. Benjamin Franklin appointed first Postmaster General.

1825. The Dead Letter Office is established.

1847. First postage stamps issued.

1860. The Pony Express is established in Joplin, Missouri. It lasts only 18 months.

1916. Postal Inspectors solve the last known stagecoach robbery in America.

1918. Expermental airmail service begins.

1924. Regular transcontinental airmail service begins.

1942. The V-Mail program created for WWII.

You can read more here. http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blmailustimeline.htm
 
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Thanks for the historical list, but:

Having worked in the Post Office one summer when I was in college, I can only say that it is just as corrupt, inefficient, and wasteful as all government institutions. :pukefight:
 
Thanks for the historical list, but:

Having worked in the Post Office one summer when I was in college, I can only say that it is just as corrupt, inefficient, and wasteful as all government institutions. :pukefight:

Poor old Dr. Franklin must be spinning in his grave, seeing what has become of the American Postal Service he was so instrumental in creating. Not that corruption, waste and inefficiency didn't exist in his day, it most certainly did. 'Tis the way of the world.
 
I remember that becoming a Postmaster was a political appointment.
 
The forever stamp unfortunately gives a good return on investment

Mail route carrier jobs were bought under the table back in the day in my neck of the woods. They keep increasing the price of their service/product and provide increasingly inferior service. Sounds like a plan......😉 Of course if you could get edible electronic hamburgers, I guess it would shutter a brick and mortar Mickey D's here and there. UPS and Fed Ex have eaten their package shipping lunch too. Ok second food reference, time to call Domino's!!
 
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