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  2. Women on US stamps - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Mary Fields - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  4. 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion - Wikipedia

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    The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, nicknamed the "Six Triple Eight", was an all-Black battalion of the US Women's Army Corps (WAC) [1] that managed postal services. The 6888th had 855 women and was led by Major Charity Adams. [2] It was the only predominantly Black US Women's Army Corps unit sent overseas during World War II. [2]

  5. One Woman’s Fight to Make The Postal Service A Better ... - AOL

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    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 ...

  6. 'Hero of the Year': Texas USPS worker saved woman from dog ...

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    "Knowing the people I work with, anybody would have done what I did," said U.S. Postal Service worker Philip Moon.

  7. Minnie M. Cox - Wikipedia

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    Minnie M. Geddings was born in 1869 to Mary Geddings and William Geddings in Lexington, Mississippi. [2] Though not much is known about her early life, it is possible that her family fared better than many other Black families in the Mississippi Delta as her parents owned a restaurant and she was able to attend Fisk University, a Historically Black University in Nashville, Tennessee. [3]

  8. Fake stamp scheme run by California woman cost US Postal ...

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    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 ...

  9. Postage stamps and postal history of the United States

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    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.