The United States Post Office
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How The Post Office Created America
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Author : Winifred Gallagher
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2016-06-28
How The Post Office Created America written by Winifred Gallagher and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-28 with History categories.
A masterful history of a long underappreciated institution, How the Post Office Created America examines the surprising role of the postal service in our nation’s political, social, economic, and physical development. The founders established the post office before they had even signed the Declaration of Independence, and for a very long time, it was the U.S. government’s largest and most important endeavor—indeed, it was the government for most citizens. This was no conventional mail network but the central nervous system of the new body politic, designed to bind thirteen quarrelsome colonies into the United States by delivering news about public affairs to every citizen—a radical idea that appalled Europe’s great powers. America’s uniquely democratic post powerfully shaped its lively, argumentative culture of uncensored ideas and opinions and made it the world’s information and communications superpower with astonishing speed. Winifred Gallagher presents the history of the post office as America’s own story, told from a fresh perspective over more than two centuries. The mandate to deliver the mail—then “the media”—imposed the federal footprint on vast, often contested parts of the continent and transformed a wilderness into a social landscape of post roads and villages centered on post offices. The post was the catalyst of the nation’s transportation grid, from the stagecoach lines to the airlines, and the lifeline of the great migration from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It enabled America to shift from an agrarian to an industrial economy and to develop the publishing industry, the consumer culture, and the political party system. Still one of the country’s two major civilian employers, the post was the first to hire women, African Americans, and other minorities for positions in public life. Starved by two world wars and the Great Depression, confronted with the country’s increasingly anti-institutional mind-set, and struggling with its doubled mail volume, the post stumbled badly in the turbulent 1960s. Distracted by the ensuing modernization of its traditional services, however, it failed to transition from paper mail to email, which prescient observers saw as its logical next step. Now the post office is at a crossroads. Before deciding its future, Americans should understand what this grand yet overlooked institution has accomplished since 1775 and consider what it should and could contribute in the twenty-first century. Gallagher argues that now, more than ever before, the imperiled post office deserves this effort, because just as the founders anticipated, it created forward-looking, communication-oriented, idea-driven America.
List Of Post Offices And Postmasters In The United States
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Author : United States. Post Office Department
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1868
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Table Of Post Offices In The United States On The First Day Of January 1851 Arranged In Alphabetical Order And Exhibiting The States Territories And Counties In Which They Are Situated With The Names Of The Post Masters
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Author : United States. Post Office Department
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1851
Table Of Post Offices In The United States On The First Day Of January 1851 Arranged In Alphabetical Order And Exhibiting The States Territories And Counties In Which They Are Situated With The Names Of The Post Masters written by United States. Post Office Department and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1851 with Post office stations and branches categories.
The United States Post Office
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Author : Daniel Calhoun Roper
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1917
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Brief History Of The United States Postla Service
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1948
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The United States Post Office Directory And Postal Guide
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language : en
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Release Date : 1853
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United States Official Postal Guide
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Author : United States. Post Office Department
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1831
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The United States Post Office Directory And Postal Guide
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Author : United States. Post Office Department
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1854
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List Of The Post Offices In The United States
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Author : United States. Post Office Department
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1859
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List Of Post Offices And Postmasters In The United States
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Author : United States Post Office Dept
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2023-07-18
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This valuable reference guide contains a comprehensive list of post offices and postmasters in the United States as of 1870. The book is essential for anyone researching family history or the history of the postal service in America. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.