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  2. Timeline of postal history - Wikipedia

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    1635 31 July - Charles I made the Royal Mail service available to the public for the first time with postage being paid by the recipient. [7]1639 - The General Court of Massachusetts designates the tavern of Richard Fairbanks in Boston as the official repository of overseas mail, making it the first postal establishment in the Thirteen Colonies.

  3. United States Postal Service - Wikipedia

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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 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.

  4. United States Post Office Department - Wikipedia

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    Overthrowing the London-oriented imperial postal service in 1774–1775, printers enlisted merchants and the new political leadership, and created a new postal system. [5] The United States Post Office (USPO) was created on July 26, 1775, by decree of the Second Continental Congress . [ 6 ]

  5. Postage stamps and postal history of the United States

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    The revised criterion reads: "The Postal Service will honor living men and women who have made extraordinary contributions to American society and culture." [72] On June 14, 2008, in Washington, DC, the Postal Service issued the first set of 10 designs in the 42–cent Flags of Our Nation stamps.

  6. Postal history - Wikipedia

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    Postal history has become a philatelic collecting speciality in its own right. Whereas traditional philately is concerned with the study of the stamps per se, including the technical aspects of stamp production and distribution, philatelic postal history refers to stamps as historical documents; similarly re postmarks, postcards, envelopes and the letters they contain.

  7. This Is What Your ZIP Code Actually Means - AOL

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    Established in 1963, ZIP codes are the most common and recognizable postal code used by the USPS. The ZIP stands for Zone Improvement Plan; the codes were invented to help the postal service ...

  8. Postal Service Act - Wikipedia

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    The Postal Service Act was a piece of United States federal legislation that established the United States Post Office Department. It was signed into law by President George Washington on February 20, 1792.

  9. Mail - Wikipedia

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    The service provided by the U.S. Postal Service in 2003 allows the franks to be printed out on special adhesive-backed labels. In 2004 the Royal Mail in the United Kingdom introduced its SmartStamp Internet-based system, allowing printing on ordinary adhesive labels or envelopes. Similar systems are being considered by postal administrations ...