Download or read book The Post Office and Its Money Order System with Proposal for a Cheap System of Conducting Money Order Business by Private Enterprise written by Henry CALLENDER and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 The United States Postal Money order System written by United States. Post Office Department and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Post Office and Its Story written by Edward Bennett and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great deal has been written about the General Post Office in newspapers and magazines, but the books on the subject are comparatively few. And these volumes are either exhaustive historical treatises, or more popularly written descriptions of Post Office life and work. However, these works carry us no farther than the eve of penny postage, while the other books were written too long ago to be a guide to the Post Office of today. It is within the last twenty years that the Department has made the most rapid strides in the extension of its activities. Thus, what the author is attempting to do is to tell the story of the Department, briefly in its early beginnings, more fully in its modern developments, and in such a way as to give the reader the impression that the Post Office is alive, that it is in close touch with the needs of the nation, and is in less danger of being strangled with red-tape methods than at any time of its existence.
Download or read book The United States Post Office written by Daniel Calhoun Roper and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Treasury and Post Office Departments Appropriations written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Treasury and Post Office Departments Appropriations 1953 Hearings Before the Subcommittee of 82 2 on H R 6854 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Appropriations Committee and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Annual Report of the Auditor for the Post Office Department to the Secretary of the Treasury and to the Postmaster General for the Fiscal Year Ended written by United States. Auditor for Post-Office Department and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Giro Credit Transfer Systems written by F. P. Thomson and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-05-09 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giro Credit Transfer Systems: Popular International Facilities for Economic Efficiency presents the financial, economic, and social system that has been a successful part of everyday life in nearly every West European country. This book discusses the remarkable benefits conferred by the giro system methods. Organized into six chapters, this book begins with an overview of the origin of the credit transfer principle to minimize the public's demand for coinage. This text then explains the financial system in which credit circulation takes the place of banknotes and coinage. Other chapters consider the implications of a comprehensive giro system, which is necessary to analyze the processes and costs incurred in operating British monetary transmission methods. This book discusses as well the general survey of the growth of the service. The final chapter deals with the establishment of the bank's credit transfer scheme. This book is a valuable resource for bankers and stockbrokers.
Download or read book Miscellaneous Documents written by United States. Congress. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Urgent Deficiency Appropriation Bill 1952 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 1654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
