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Neither Snow Nor Rain Nor Heat Nor Gloom Stopped the United States Post Office Department From Launching on This Day in 1792
The American Revolution cemented the importance of a federally protected post office in the minds of the people and ...
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Roll over, Ben Franklin: Trump wants to get rid of USPS again
It remains the only Post office in the country that doesn’t fly the American flag. That’s because when Benjamin Franklin founded the Postal Service in Philadelphia his nearby neighbor Betsy ...
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On This Day | The Post Office Act of 1792 signed
On this day in history, President George Washington signed an act into law that created the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) ...
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Why USPS may run out of money before the end of 2020
If it needs to go from point A to point B anywhere in the US, the post office can do it ... of Independence was even signed. In 1775, Benjamin Franklin was appointed postmaster general, and ...
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Biography: Benjamin Franklin
Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy an elevated position in the American imagination. He was, after all, the man who risked life and limb to ...