Providing hundreds of millions of messages per day, more than 141 million households and businesses in the United States is no small thing. Monitoring the development of the United States Postal Service is a journey through the history of transportation, economics, industrialization, communications and government.
In an act of the Second Continental Congress in 1775 was the birth of the Post Office Department, the predecessor of the U.S. Postal Service to implement. According to the act of Congress, "a[If] the line of all messages under the direction of the appointed Postmaster General, fits from Falmouth in New England to Savannah in Georgia, as many places to cross as he thought. "
Performed at the time, the postal communication, especially between the Congress and the armies under the leadership of Benjamin Franklin, first Postmaster General. He was the foundation of the system that continues to serve the needs established by the American people since its inception. AfterThe United States Postal Service Franklin is a long journey for post offices in the North and as far away as Virginia to inspect. New and shorter routes have been set up mail and milestones have been placed on main roads. Pilots carried mail for the first time in the early hours of service between Philadelphia and New York speed. When he left office, the post streets were from Maine to Florida and from New York to Canada on.
When Washington DC became the seat of government,The post office was moved from Philadelphia. Two horse-drawn wagon carried all post records, furniture and equipment for the new capital. In the 19 th Century that the post huge profits, the development of new services in 21 Century lasted, as well as support the development of every major form of transport.
Steamboats began traveling the rivers, replace, rowing boats and rafts as a means to deliver mail. When the West was behind the rest of thethe country to receive this e-mail was founded and the Pony Express began its run in 1860. The fastest delivery was in March 1861, when President Abraham Lincoln's inaugural address from St. Joseph to Sacramento was made in 7 days and 17 hours.
The first American rail route post office was established in 1864 between Chicago and Clinton, Iowa, on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. The terminals were set up in addition to the main railway stations to allow packets to be orderedin the mailroom and the loading of self-mails. Until 1930, it attracted more than 10,000 trains per e-mail. And although there is a decline in the use of rail transport to deliver the mail, it remains the nation's freight railroads to e-mail about their intermodal service will be today.
In early 1900, the post-trial domestic flights fairs, carnivals and in the air meets in more than 16 countries. These flights are convinced that the message that the plane could carry a payload of mail. In 1918, the PostalBureau began scheduled airmail service between New York and Washington, DC with military personnel to fly aircraft of the army. In 1918, the post on all phases of its airmail. The first commercial airmail flight took place in 1926.
With all its progress over the decades, the mail has come almost to a halt in mid-1960. Years of neglect and financial control of fragmented elements such as equipment and salaries crisis. In Chicago, 10Millions of letters were logjammed. The post office floors have been millions of letters, parcels, magazines and newsletters, the outbreak can not be processed. Years of neglect finally added. In response, Congress created a post-reform benefits from better pay, better workers, and gave more control to the postmaster, to name a few.
Like the letters represent the largest amount of mail volume, has led the post-new equipment and technologies to accelerate in 1990Letter of preparation. It 'started with the management of catalogs, magazines and other large envelopes to automate. He also turned his attention to accelerate packet processing. His ultimate goal is to provide customers with further information on each shipment that moves through the system. The goal is an intelligent mail system in place by 2009, which should operate as a global positioning system for e-mail, using a standardized bar code on each piece of mail and e-mailContainer so that customers see where their e-mail every step of the journey.
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