Imagine your life without mail. Sometimes it is not that great as our bills and legal notices are delivered through the mail. However, the things we cherish most like a birthday card from a friend or relative, an invitation to a wedding or a letter from someone special are delivered to us via a mailman.
So reach out today and thank your mailman. This person works hard everyday to deliver those parcels to us. As the saying goes, “Through rain or snow, or sleet or hail, we’ll carry the mail. We will not fail”
Interesting Postal History:
The original slogan “Neither rain, or snow, nor death of night, can keep us from our duty” was used by the Pony Express.
1775 - Benjamin Franklin appointed first Postmaster General by the Continental Congress
1847 - U.S. postage stamps issued
1855 - Prepayment of postage required
1860 - Pony Express began
1863 - Free city delivery began
1873 - U.S. postal cards issued
1874 - General Postal Union (now Universal Postal Union) established
1893 - First commemorative stamps issued
1896 - Rural free delivery began
1913 - Parcel Post® began
1918 - Scheduled airmail service began
1950 - Residential deliveries reduced to one a day
1957 - Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee established
1963 - ZIP Code inaugurated
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