Itâs Halloween time, Americans are rallying around the Postal Service, people love their pets, and who couldnât use a good chuckle right about now? Count those among the reasons youâre quite likely to see dogs dressed as letter carriers in your neighborhood and social media feed these days. The officially licensed USPS dog costume, introduced…
When you buy a car, how long do you tend to keep it? A few years? Six or seven? Ten? For the U.S. Postal Service, itâs a long, long time. The backbone of its delivery fleet â more than 200,000 vehicles â is the right-hand-drive Long Life Vehicle (LLV), which has an expected service life…
Postal worker Ursula Hennessy doesnât just remember the August day 50 years ago when President Richard Nixon signed the landmark Postal Reorganization Act. She was â to borrow a line from âHamiltonâ â in the room where it happened. Hennessy was in her 20s when she joined the Post Office Department in 1969 as the…
The Postal Service will honor the suffrage movement and the people who carried it to fruition when it releases its 19th Amendment: Women Vote stamp on Saturday, Aug. 22. The Forever stamp commemorates the centennial of the ratification of the constitutional amendment that guarantees women the right to vote.In 1848, the U.S. womenâs suffrage movement…
The Postal Inspection Service has released a video to celebrate the organizationâs 245th birthday. âThe United States Postal Inspection Service: A Look Back at the First 245 Years of Americaâs First and Oldest Law Enforcement Agencyâ explores the organizationâs colorful history, which began when Benjamin Franklin, Americaâs first Postmaster General, hired William Goddard. On Aug….
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the most comprehensive postal legislation since the founding of the republic â the law that transformed the Post Office Department into the Postal Service. President Richard Nixon signed the Postal Reorganization Act on Aug. 12, 1970, but as Publication 100, the Postal Serviceâs official history book explains, the…
The ledgers that Benjamin Franklin kept when he was Philadelphiaâs Postmaster recently became available online â in time for this weekendâs 245th anniversary of the American postal systemâs birth. Franklin became Americaâs first Postmaster General 245 years ago when he was appointed to that position by the Second Continental Congress on July 26, 1775. Prior…
The Postal Service has updated its own history book. Publication 100, The United States Postal Service: An American History, traces the organizationâs evolution from the colonial era to the digital age. The 144-page book includes several new sections, including âDiversity, Past and Present,â âUnusual Delivery Methodsâ and tables of historical postage rates. Other sections cover…
