Neither Snow Nor Rain by Devin Leonard

Author:Devin Leonard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grove Atlantic
Published: 2016-04-11T15:44:01+00:00

Benjamin Franklin, architect of the American colonial post, and first postmaster general.

A post office circa 1809, where all sorting was done by hand.

In 1835, a mob in Charleston, South Carolina, broke into the post office and burned abolitionist newspapers. Postmaster General Amos Kendall condemned the American Anti-Slavery Society for mailing “exaggerated” accounts of slavery.

Before railroads, the Post Office sent mail to California via steamship.

Patrons in San Francisco crowded the post office.

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