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US Postal Service turns 250. Here’s how it has evolved over the years

US Postal Service turns 250. Here’s how it has evolved over the years

The one government agency that still reaches nearly every American daily — undeterred by rain, sleet, snow or even gloom of night — turns 250 on Saturday. Established in 1775, when the Second Continental Congress appointed Benjamin Franklin as postmaster general, the postal service predates the United States itself. It was launched nearly a year before the colonies declared their …

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