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The post was deemed so important to a fledgling nation that John McLean, Postmaster General from 1823 to 1829, reported directly to President James Monroe and later to President John Quincy Adams. Following his tenure as Postmaster General, he will be appointed to the United States Supreme Court. Later in his career, he was considered a serious presidential candidate.[([[https:// | The post was deemed so important to a fledgling nation that John McLean, Postmaster General from 1823 to 1829, reported directly to President James Monroe and later to President John Quincy Adams. Following his tenure as Postmaster General, he will be appointed to the United States Supreme Court. Later in his career, he was considered a serious presidential candidate.[([[https:// | ||
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+ | The Postmaster General used to sit in the Cabinet, elevating the position to that of the Secretaries of War, Treasury, and State—and placing the PG in competition to be Commander in Chief. True, the Postmaster General was last in line, but he or she was still a heartbeat, if not a dozen, away. In 1971, the Postmaster General was ultimately removed from the Cabinet and from the succession.[([[https:// | ||
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+ | ===== Recipients Had To Pay For Delivery ===== | ||
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+ | Until the mid-nineteenth century, recipients—rather than senders—had to pay for postage on letters they received. As a result, many letters were refused in order to avoid paying for them, causing the post office to spend an unusual amount of time returning mail to senders. Prepaid postage stamps were introduced in America in 1847, which solved this difficulty.[([[https:// | ||
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+ | ===== Trolling ===== | ||
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+ | Trolls were first made possible by the United States Postal Service. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, offensive " | ||
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+ | ===== Pony Express ===== | ||
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+ | Contrary to common conception, the Rough Pony Express was a pioneering mail and private service that took on the challenging work of delivering mail through the Wild West before the United States Postal Service arrived. From April 3, 1860, until October 24, 1861, The Express was in operation for a year and a half. Scrappy riders—" | ||
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+ | ===== Go To Post Office Before Civil War ===== | ||
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+ | Free City Delivery, or free mail delivery to your house, was first introduced in Cleveland in 1863. Joseph Briggs, a postal employee in that Ohio city, is claimed to have had the idea the previous winter after seeing so many women customers forced to wait in lengthy lines at the post office, chilly and worried, because the only way to obtain word of their loved ones fighting in the war was through the mail. His Free City Delivery program was so popular that it rapidly expanded to neighboring cities before becoming a national standard. Furthermore, | ||
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+ | ===== Women Postal Clerks ===== | ||
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+ | Beginning in 1825, all mail in America that was unlabeled, mislabeled, or inadequately labeled was routed to a central Dead Letter Office in Washington, D.C. This was the only spot in America where persons who weren' | ||
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+ | ===== Mail Carriers Could Only Hand Mail To Receiver ===== | ||
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+ | Despite the fact that mail began to be carried to people' | ||
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+ | ===== Mandatory Mailbox Or Slot ===== | ||
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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 being at home.[([[https:// | ||
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+ | ===== Farm-To-Table ===== | ||
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+ | 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, | ||
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+ | ===== Hope Diamond ===== | ||
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+ | 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' | ||
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+ | ===== No Official Motto ===== | ||
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+ | Many people think that the United States Postal Service' |