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 As of March 1, 1923, every U.S. houses were required to have a mail box or slot, and postal workers no longer had to worry about clients.[([[https://about.usps.com/who/profile/history/pdf/mail-collection-boxes.pdf|usps]])]
+===== Farm-To-Table =====
+The Farm-to-Table program, which ran from 1914 to 1920, was a novel initiative that allowed farmers to negotiate prices with people in cities and then mail them their choice of ham, bacon, fresh meats, poultry, eggs, butter, cheese, nuts, maple syrup, honey, jellies, preserves, fruits, and vegetables. This was considered as a method to provide farmers more clients and city people better and cheaper access to fresh commodities, and it was promoted after World War I as a way to assist accomplish President Woodrow Wilson's aim of food conservation in America. What are the two most popular Farm-to-Table items? Lard and butter.[([[https://www.nal.usda.gov/exhibits/ipd/localfoods/exhibits/show/farm-to-table/launching-farm-to-table|usda]])]
+===== Hope Diamond =====
+The 45.52 carat Hope Diamond was given to the Smithsonian by New York City jeweler Harry Winston in 1958. He was so confident in the United States Postal Service, which he used frequently to transfer diamonds, that he chose it to convey one of the world's most costly stones. Winston paid $2.44 for registered first-class mail (about $15.80 today), plus an extra $142.05 (approximately $917 today) to insure it for $1 million. It arrived at his destination safely. The Hope Diamond is on exhibit at the Smithsonian, and the original packing with postmarks is still on show.[([[https://postalmuseum.si.edu/object/npm_1992.2002.15|postalmuseum]])]
+===== No Official Motto =====
+Many people think that the United States Postal Service's slogan is "Neither snow, rain, heat, nor gloom of night keeps our couriers from the fast completion of their scheduled rounds." Yes, those are the words inscribed on the front of New York City's grand 1912 James A. Farley Post Office, but they are drawn from a work by the Persian historian Herodotus written in the 5th century BC. They are referring to couriers in the old Persian Empire, not America's strong men and women in blue. This remark was chosen by an employee of McKim, Mead, and White, the architectural firm that designed the post office, and it is now etched in stone in the post office—and in people's thoughts.[([[https://facts.usps.com/no-official-motto/|usps]])]

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