From Benjamin Franklin to Pony Express to Anthrax: How the US Postal S

From Benjamin Franklin to Pony Express to anthrax: How the US Postal S

The one government agency that still reaches nearly every American daily — undeterred by rain, sleet, snow or even gloom of night — turns 250 on Saturday. Established in 1775, when the Second Continental Congress appointed Benjamin Franklin as postmaster general, the postal service predates the United States itself. It was launched nearly a year before the colonies declared their break from British rule. “The country may not even have come into …

From Benjamin Franklin to Pony Express to anthrax: How the US Postal Service shaped a nation – The Land

In this photo provided by the National Archives and Records Administration, mail is loaded onto a Curtiss JN-4H “Jenny” biplane, May 15, 1918, at Bustleton Field near Philadelphia, while U.S. Army personnel look on. (National Archives and Records Administration via AP) By Susan Haigh, Associated Press The one government agency that still reaches nearly every American daily — undeterred by rain, sleet, snow or even gloom of night — turns 250 on S…