It was one of the great characters in the story of America’s founding who created the United States Postal Service. Even before the new country’s independence was declared, Benjamin Franklin established the United States Post Office, which would lay the foundation for the postal service as we know it today. Franklin’s Post Office was competing more »
Perhaps it is a sign of how electronic communication has changed our culture, but I’ve noticed that there are no more mailmen on TV. It wasn’t so long ago when the postal service was such a part of everyday life that characters who worked as postmen were fairly common in entertainment. The most recent example more »
I am wondering how many who have seen the commercial for the U.S.P.S Priority Mail Flat Rate shipping box, featuring a tie in to the new Pixar Toy Story 3, know why Hamm the piggy bank was put in the mailman’s cap. It was the inspiration for today’s Mail Music Monday. If you know the more »