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The history of women on US stamps begins in 1893, when Queen Isabella became the first woman on a US stamp. [3] Queen Isabella helped support Christopher Columbus 's 1492 voyage , and 1893 marked the end of a year-long celebration of the 400th anniversary of that voyage.
First African American woman star route mail carrier in the U.S. Mary Fields ( c. 1832 – December 5, 1914), also known as Stagecoach Mary and Black Mary , was an American mail carrier who was the first Black woman to be employed as a star route postwoman in the United States .
Postal service in the United States began with the delivery of stampless letters whose cost was borne by the receiving person, later encompassed pre-paid letters carried by private mail carriers and provisional post offices, and culminated in a system of universal prepayment that required all letters to bear nationally issued adhesive postage stamps.
Chen and her partner, Chuanhua “Hugh” Hu, shipped more than 34 million parcels with fake postage, costing the U.S. Postal Service more than $150 million, prosecutors said. She faces up to 10 ...
Charnae Easton was forced to breast-pump in front of a window. So she sued—and won. Here, she shares her story for the first time. “I am confident that it will never happen to any woman again ...
19th-century English postman . A mail carrier, also referred to as a mailman, mailwoman, mailperson, postal carrier, postman, postwoman, postperson, person of post, [1] letter carrier (in American English), or colloquially postie (in Australia, [2] Canada, [3] New Zealand, [4] and the United Kingdom [5]), is an employee of a post office or postal service who delivers mail and parcel post to ...
"Knowing the people I work with, anybody would have done what I did," said U.S. Postal Service worker Philip Moon.
History tells us that matters like marriage equality, voting rights, abortion access and campaign finance are often adjudicated through the court system. Currently, the Supreme Court is made up of eight justices, the ninth seat vacant since Justice Antonin Scalia’s death in February.