Postal

Pony express timeline

The Pony Express was a system of U.S. mail delivery that operated from April 3, 1860, until October 1861. It consisted of continuous horse-and-rider relays between St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California, with steamers covering the final leg from Sacramento to San Francisco.

The Post Office Department inaugurated Highway Post Office (HPO) Service on February 10, 1941. This service was to be a mail distribution network comprised of rapid pick-up, sorting, and dispatch to key points en route between two principal terminal cities. Glossary: Highway Post Office Service

POSTAL FACT: The Pony Express was in operation only from April 3, 1860, to Oct. 26, 1861. It was never part of the U.S. Postal Service.

Beneath the streets of New York City lies the skeleton of one of the most ambitious communication systems in U.S. history: a 27-mile pneumatic mail network t...

Would you like to help us out? Take this quick survey: https://s.si.edu/3FyL1W9 With all of the mail floating around out there, they had to come up with a wa...

Holiday mail delivery is getting more efficient out of the Stockton post office thanks to a sorting machine that’s new to the site this year. In July, the U...

The United States Postal Service removed 711 mail-sorting machines from postal facilities – the highest level in at least four years – according to new court testimony from top-ranking agency officials.

On August 19, 2009 Curator Nancy A Pope interviews two former Railway Post Office clerks, Donald Peters and John Sipko.

Memories of working in the railroad mail service on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy in the 1950s

An orientation/training film for RPOs (Railroad Post Offices) is a documentary of an entire operation from the details of gear each man carried, setting up t...

During this digital field trip students will discover how mail was sorted and delivered across the country by trains. Students will also meet Owney, the famous Railroad Post Office dog, and hear his incredible story of adventure on the rails. Designed for K-12 classroom audiences and touches on CA State Standard 4.4.1. This free livestream is available for anyone and is the first of this school year’s monthly unique digital field trips over through PORTS. Register here or in our Linktree in our bio: https://ports-ca.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mYjabO-_RQyYOzyIAkWytQ #

Between Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and other holiday celebrations, USPS anticipates lots of mail this time of year.

USPS gears up for holiday shopping season

Guest blogger Tim Bond gets a first-hand look at the new package sorter in the Seattle P&DC.

Answer (1 of 7): Hand written poorly scripted letters. If you print the letters for the address the machine can read your printed address. Cursive is harder to read for some sorters, especially bad hand writing. Also if you put cellophane tape over the address, it will some times not be able t...

Each machine can sort up to 36,000 pieces of mail per hour including letters and post cards.