Download or read book The Post Office Book written by Gail Gibbons and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1986-05-23 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you ever mail a letter and wonder what happens to it after you drop it in the box? Read all about the post office and learn how letters are weighed, sorted, transported, culled, canceled, coded, binned, boxed, and sorted once again. Find out how people and machines work together to deliver the letters you send. Children's Books of 1982 (Library of Congress)
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 Post Office written by Charles Bukowski and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Bukowski’s classic roman à clef, Post Office, captures the despair, drudgery, and happy dissolution of his alter ego, Henry Chinaski, as he enters middle age. Post Office is an account of Bukowski alter-ego Henry Chinaski. It covers the period of Chinaski’s life from the mid-1950s to his resignation from the United States Postal Service in 1969, interrupted only by a brief hiatus during which he supported himself by gambling at horse races. “The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates “He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter
Download or read book A Lucky Dog written by Dirk Wales and published by Great Plains. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of Owney, a dog who traveled all over the U.S.A. on mail trains from 1888 to 1896.
Download or read book An Illustrated History of the Travelling Post Office written by Peter Johnson and published by Ian Allan Pub. This book was released on 2009 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, the respected rail historian Peter Johnson has gone back to original sources to research the history of the travelling post office in Britain from its origins through to the effective end of mail sorting on trains.
Download or read book The Outlook written by Lyman Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The World s Work written by Walter Hines Page and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of our time.
Download or read book Appropriations for and Legislation Concerning the Post office Department and Postal Service written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Digest of Appropriations for the Support of the Government of the United States written by United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Division of Central Accounts and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Investigation of the Post office Department written by United States. Post Office Department and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Post Office Appropriation Bill 1935 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 1710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Official Opinions of the Solicitor of the Post Office Department written by United States. Post Office Department. Office of the Solicitor and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Digest of Appropriations for the Support of the Government of the United States for the Service of the Fiscal Year Ending and on Account of Deficiencies for Prior Years Made by the Session of the Congress written by United States. Department of the Treasury. Division of Bookkeeping and Warrants and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary of American Biography written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary of American Biography Abbe Barrymore written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of an integrated online collection of primary documents, secondary reference sources, and journal articles covering all areas of U.S. history from pre-colonial times to the present day. The DAB records the lives of prominent Americans who died by Dec. 31, 1980.
Download or read book Official Opinions of the Assistant Attorneys general for the Post Office Department written by United States. Solicitor for the Post Office Dept and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Post Office Department of the United States of America written by Daniel D. Tompkins Leech and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
