| POST OFFICE DAY --- Thursday, July 26, 2007 |
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| darkshadows (some@where.net) |
2007/07/26 14:18 |
207th day of 2007 - 158 remaining
Thursday, July 26, 2007
POST OFFICE DAY
On this day in 1775, a postal system was established by the 2nd
Continental Congress of the United States. The first Postmaster General
was the same gentleman who graces the U.S. $100 bill and who flew a kite
with a key attached in a thunderstorm -- Benjamin Franklin. Mr. Franklin
was paid $1,000 a year for his job as Postmaster General.
Just fifty-four years later, the U.S. Post Office had grown to 7,600
offices and in some places, especially big cities, lines of people were
kept waiting as postal clerks determined correct postal charges. Citizens
were angered over the long lines and by the U.S. Government’s enforcement
of postal rates.
Here we are, over 200 years later, still complaining about postal rates
while we wait in long lines at the post office.
Some things never change.
*****You'd think they would have gotten it right by now.
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