Is there anything Benjamin Franklin didn't do? I mean really he's everywhere you look. Here's a question. How many Benjamin franklin stamps have been issued by the United States Postal Service through the years? I'll give the answer in my next post.
Thats interesting and useful information. I love that an air balloon was an attempted postal delivery service and what a huge and complicated way to deliver mail. It would've been nice if they could throw it down onto every doorstep.
That's probably not too far away in the future. Not with balloons, but with drones. Drone flies to your house and drops your mail in a bucket of some kind. Who knows.
I wouldn't be surprised! Drones freak me out, I was watching "Homeland" and it is amazing how they can track someone so far away with a simple thing. Drones can deliver my post as long as they can get the groceries for me too!
Yes it would be costly, no doubt it would be added onto the taxes that we pay anyway. At least groceries and mail would be delivered and they could even go as far as to send one in to clean too!
Postal workers begin sorting mail on streetcars in Chicago, Illinois, and Cincinnati, Ohio, today in 1895.
The U.S. Postal Service issued its first self-adhesive postage stamp, a 10-cent Christmas stamp, today in 1974.
Yes, I remember that stamp. The intervening years haven't been kind to it. It is notorious for discoloration, the glue has bled through the paper on most of the stamps. The one I have is no different. After several self-adhesive formulations I think the Postal Service has found a relatively stable mixture that seems, at least in the short term, to not affect the paper.
Pressure sensitive adhesive on postage stamps has become the bane of stamp collectors. This probably has caused more collectors to stop collecting U.S. stamps than even the voluminous new issues of the past few decades. Postal consumers, however, love 'em, so, to make a bad pun, "we're stuck with them." Don
From the Postal Museums twitter feed. I did not know this. "4 standard time zones were introduced in the continental US at the instigation of the railroads today in 1883, to curb mail train accidents."
While we are accustomed to four time zones in the continental U.S. (more if living in Alaska or Hawaii), I believe that the Peoples Republic of China (a vast country) uses only one! don
