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In the spring of 1860, three entrepreneurs started a short-lived messenger service whose legacy would live on beyond the next century. That service was the Pony Express. Pony Express’ rates were high, ringing in at $5 for a half-ounce letter, but so were the dangers faced by its riders. Stations were spaced about 10 miles more »
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 »
Highlights 1960 rates 50-year throwback Google is rumored In an effort to stimulate mail volume, the Postal Service announced today that they will be cutting postage back to its 1960 rate of 4 cents for a first-class letter, a reduction of a whopping 40 cents. According to Postmaster General Jack Potter in the USPS press more »