From Benjamin Franklin to Pony Express to Anthrax: How the US Postal Service Shaped a Nation
The one government agency that still reaches nearly every American daily — undeterred by rain, sleet, snow or even gloom of night — turned 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 […]