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Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service; Agency overview; Type: Governing body: Jurisdiction: United States Postal Service: Headquarters: 475 L'Enfant Plaza SW, Washington, D.C. 20260: Employees: 11 board members 1 Postmaster General; 1 Deputy Postmaster General; 9 Governors; Agency executives
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 simply the 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 associated states.
The General Post Office, also known as the Tariff Commission Building, is a historic building at 700 F Street NW in Washington, D.C., United States. Built in 1839 to a design by Robert Mills and enlarged in 1866 to a design by Thomas U. Walter , it is an example of Greek Revival architecture.
The Post Office Department occupied its headquarters building until the early 1970s. The department was reorganized in 1971 as the United States Postal Service, an independent agency. It vacated the building for another location. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) was the next occupant, through the early 1990s.
The headquarters of the United States Postal Service on the west side of L'Enfant Promenade, which experienced one of Washington, D.C.'s largest fires in 1984 Banneker Park and Overlook, L'Enfant Promenade, the James V. Forrestal Building, and Smithsonian Castle in 1990. Property tax issues dogged L'Enfant Plaza in the late 1980s.
Several United States post offices are individually notable and have operated under the authority of the United States Post Office Department (1792–1971) or the United States Postal Service (since 1971). Notable U.S. post offices include individual buildings, whether still in service or not, which have architectural or community-related ...
The APWU headquarters at 1300 L Street NW in Washington, D.C. Postal workers in the United States first won collective bargaining rights after the U.S. postal strike of 1970. Two organizations of postal clerks emerged in the 1890s; they merged in 1899 into the United National Association of Post Office Clerks (UNAPOC).
The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) is an American labor union, representing non-rural letter carriers employed by the United States Postal Service. It was founded in 1889. The NALC has 2,500 local branches representing letter carriers in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Guam.