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What makes America great?

It's the people, it's the places.

Every community has a story, and every community's story clicks into place to frame our nation's history. That's the case with the eighteen places featured in this book. This is not only a book about postal history; it's the tale of Everytown, USA.

Here, you'll find a village with marble sidewalks, you'll meet the Confederate spy that dressed like a lady to hijack a ship, you'll get to meet the patriots and the not so good folks, you'll voyage from whaling towns to tobacco port towns, from the first American Methodist church to the oldest Catholic parish in the original 13 colonies – basically, you'll visit communities specifically picked by the United States Post Office to expand our nation.

The book June 12, 1792 features post offices that were established on June 12, 1792, a mere twelve days after the implementation of the Postal Act of 1792 that made the United States Post Office an official department of the United States government.

As established on June 1, 1792, the post office was tasked by President George Washington and Congress to grow our country via a better communication system. Our young country started that June day needing an organization to pull isolated communities together so the nation could transition from clusters of tiny towns to a big village.

That day, we got it.

And we did it. America was the first nation to have an effective postal system that gave both rich and poor equal voices. That's because the postal system wasn't just about letters filled with family gossip.

If it was as simple as that, we might not even be here.
No. We're here because our Founding Fathers made the postal system the nation's paperboy.

The Postal Act was mainly created to ensure the media could afford to send their words across the nation. Affordable? Thanks to the special rates set in the Act, sending a huge newspaper hundreds of miles cost one-sixth of what it cost to send a single 'wish you were here' letter the same distance.

This ability to get national newspapers into the most hinter of hinterlands directly led to that strong public input Americans are so famous for. Since the post office delivered current newspapers on time, government types couldn't do whatever they wanted and not expect a public reaction. If the government started to spiral into the same tyranny the British had unleashed on its Thirteen Colonies or descend into incompetence, the postal system ensured the American public would always be there to nudge them back in line.

It's all about freedom, and so is this book.