For those who may not be familar with some of the resources available on the USPS Web Site, I stumbled across their Publication 100 by accident this evening, so thought I'd post it. It has an excellent history of the US Postal Service from its early inception to the present day:
http://www.usps.com/cpim/ftp/pubs/pub100.pdfInterestingly, I came upon this link when I read an article about mail delivery and this point which I never knew before:
Quote:
Until 1912, the US Post Office delivered mail seven days a week. Local religious leaders noticed a decline in Sunday-morning church attendance because of local post offices' doubling as gathering places. They appealed to the government to intervene and close post offices on Sundays.
An interesting piece of postal history.
Posted 12/31/2010 8:04 pm
