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 ...

Alongside the business of mail delivery, the U.S. Postal Service also dwarfs the General Services Administration's real ...

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 ...

It is my understanding the U.S. postal service (USPS) was conceived by Benjamin Franklin as a service. It was not seen as a business expected to make a profit, or actually even pay for itself.