Download or read book Establishment of Postal Stations and Branch Post Offices 85 2 written by United States. Congress. House. Post Offices and Civil Service and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Establishment of Postal Stations and Branch Post Offices written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book ESTABLISHMENT OF POSTAL STATIONS AND BRANCH POST OFFICES written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers legislation increasing the distance between Post Office branches.
Download or read book How the Post Office Created America written by Winifred Gallagher and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Increase in Area Within which Postal Stations Substations and Branches May be Established written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Postal Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers (88) H.R. 5778, (88) S. 1370.
Download or read book Increase in Area Within which Postal Stations Substations and Branches May be Established written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Increase in Area Within which Postal Stations Substations and Branches May be Established Hearing 88 1 July 30 1963 written by United States. Congress. House. Post Office and Civil Service and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Increase in Area Within which Postal Stations Substations and Branches May be Established Hearing 88 1 November 6 1963 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Post Office and Civil Service and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Extending Limits for Establishment of Postal Stations and Branch Post Offices July 24 1958 Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and Ordered to be Printed written by and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Postal Service written by Louis Melius and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The American Postal Service: History of the Postal Service from the Earliest Times" by Louis Melius is a comprehensive history of the USPS from its inception through the early years of the 20th century. Facts about this important branch of the government, the need for an efficient communication method, the English postal service, and more are all discussed to give readers a full-scop idea of just how essential postal workers and the mail system are to the country.
Download or read book Establishment of Postal Stations and Branch Post Offices written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Extending Limits for Establishment of Postal Stations and Branch Post Offices written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Brief History of the Baltimore Post Office from 1753 to 1930 with Statistics written by and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Paper Trails written by Cameron Blevins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking history of how the US Post made the nineteenth-century American West. There were five times as many post offices in the United States in 1899 than there are McDonald's restaurants today. During an era of supposedly limited federal government, the United States operated the most expansive national postal system in the world. In this cutting-edge interpretation of the late nineteenth-century United States, Cameron Blevins argues that the US Post wove together two of the era's defining projects: western expansion and the growth of state power. Between the 1860s and the early 1900s, the western United States underwent a truly dramatic reorganization of people, land, capital, and resources. It had taken Anglo-Americans the better part of two hundred years to occupy the eastern half of the continent, yet they occupied the West within a single generation. As millions of settlers moved into the region, they relied on letters and newspapers, magazines and pamphlets, petitions and money orders to stay connected to the wider world. Paper Trails maps the spread of the US Post using a dataset of more than 100,000 post offices, revealing a new picture of the federal government in the West. The western postal network bore little resemblance to the civil service bureaucracies typically associated with government institutions. Instead, the US Post grafted public mail service onto private businesses, contracting with stagecoach companies to carry the mail and paying local merchants to distribute letters from their stores. These arrangements allowed the US Post to rapidly spin out a vast and ephemeral web of postal infrastructure to thousands of distant places. The postal network's sprawling geography and localized operations forces a reconsideration of the American state, its history, and the ways in which it exercised power.
Download or read book The History of the British Post Office written by J. C. Hemmeon and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1912, Hemmeon takes a detailed look at the history of the Post Office in Britain. Its 271 pages contain a wealth of information and anecdote which still proves of much interest today. Contents Include: The Postal Establishment supported directly by the state-Prior to 1635; The Postal Establishment a Source of Revenue to the State-1635-1711; The Postal Establishment an Instrument of Taxation-1711-1840; The Postal Establishment an Instrument of Popular Communication-Since 1840; The Travellers Post and Post Horses; Roads and Speed; Sailing Packets and Foreign Connections; Rates and Finance; The Question of Monopoly; The Telegraph System as a Branch of the Postal Department; The Post Office and the Telephone Companies; Conclusion; Expenditure and Revenue Tables; Bibliography; Index. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Download or read book List of Selected Maps of States and Territories written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
