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The full eagle logo, used in various versions from 1970 to 1993. The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service, is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States, its insular areas, and its associated states.
A postmark[1]is a postal markingmade on an envelope, parcel, postcardor the like, indicating the place, date and time that the item was delivered into the care of a postal service, or sometimes indicating where and when received or in transit.
Though not an official creed or motto of the United States Postal Service, [1] the Postal Service does acknowledge it as an informal motto [2] along with a slightly revised version of Charles W. Eliot's poem "The Letter". [3] The beginning of the inscription on James Farley Post Office
The U.S. Post Office, as it was known then, started a dead letter office in 1825 to deal with undeliverable mail. By 1893, it handled about 20,000 items every day. [ 6 ] Patti Lyle Collins was a long-time employee of the office, responsible for the redirection of an estimated 1,000 letters a day. [ 13 ]
The United States Postal Service began receiving letters to Santa over 100 years ago, a spokesperson for the USPS told Business Insider. In 1912, Postmaster General Frank Hitchcock authorized ...
Stampless letters, paid for by the receiver, and private postal systems, were gradually phased out after the introduction of adhesive postage stamps, first issued by the U.S. government post office July 1, 1847, in the denominations of five and ten cents, with the use of stamps made mandatory in 1855.
During the first seven weeks of the Civil War, the U.S. Post Office still delivered mail from the seceded states. Mail that was postmarked after the date of a state's admission into the Confederacy through May 31, 1861, and bearing U.S. (Union) postage is deemed to represent 'Confederate State Usage of U.S. Stamps'. i.e., Confederate covers franked with Union stamps. [4]
This 1953 cover has a normal postmark and two French service markings. A postal marking is any kind of annotation applied to a letter by a postal service. The most common types are postmarks and cancellations; almost every letter will have those. Less common types include forwarding addresses, routing annotations, warnings, postage due notices ...