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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.
The U.S. Post Office and Courthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. [1] It has since been conveyed to the City of Baltimore, and is in use by the Baltimore city courts. For many years, the courthouse was known colloquially as Courthouse East.
The board oversees the activities of the Postal Service, while the postmaster general actively manages its day-to-day operations. [2] The board directs "the exercise of the power" of the Postal Service, controls its expenditures, and reviews its practices and policies. [3] It consists of 11 members; 6 are requisite to achieve an ordinary quorum.
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).
The U.S. Postal Service keeps promising that things are getting better — more efficient operations, more reliable mail delivery, improved finances, a more climate-friendly truck fleet and so on.
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 official post office was created in 1792 as the Post Office Department (USPOD). It was based on the Constitutional authority empowering Congress "To establish post offices and post roads ". The 1792 law provided for a greatly expanded postal network, and served editors by charging newspapers an extremely low rate.
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