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 »
Ever have a crappy day? Well, the Cape Coral post office in Florida recently did and in an effort to wipe away the gloom a U.S.P.S. manager there decided to celebrate it with a “poop cake.” The Cape Coral, FL post office was under staffed the day a mystery shopper got in a line that 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 »