Alarmed, Congress in 1970 remade the department into the United States Postal Service, a government-business hybrid that has received no tax dollars since 1982 but nonetheless remains subject to ...

The US Postal Service has played a role throughout American history - from the Declaration of Independence to today's mail-in voting. It was conceived of by the founders as the way to create a ...

Neither Snow Nor Rain: A History of the United States Postal Service, the true story of how America has delivered its mail through the centuries, rambles, rattles, digresses (but never dawdles) as ...

By Debra Adams Simmons, HISTORY Executive Editor In 1863, the postal office began experimenting with home delivery. In 2019, the United States Postal Service, which has a legal obligation to bring ...