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The building is an example of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture, popular in the late 19th-century United States. Its bell tower is the third tallest structure in Washington, D.C., excluding radio towers. It succeeded an earlier 1839 building, the General Post Office, which was built in Classical Revival style on F Street NW.
The General Post Office, also known as the Tariff Commission Building, is a historic building at 700 F Street NW in Washington, D.C., United States.Built in 1839 to a design by Robert Mills and enlarged in 1866 to a design by Thomas U. Walter, it is an example of Greek Revival architecture.
The formal office of the United States postmaster general was established by act of government on September 22, 1789. [ 8 ] From 1829 to 1971, the postmaster general was the head of the Post Office Department (or simply "Post Office" until the 1820s [ 9 ] : 60–65 ) and was a member of the president's Cabinet .
Postmaster General John McLean, in office from 1823 to 1829, was the first to call it the Post Office Department rather than just the "Post Office." The organization received a boost in prestige when President Andrew Jackson invited his postmaster general, William T. Barry, to sit as a member of the Cabinet in 1829. [1]
Postmaster General DeJoy helped the USPS deliver approximately 380 million home test kits from January 2022 through May 2022. [122] [123] As of March 2024, when the program concluded, the USPS had delivered over 1.8 billion free COVID-19 test kits. [124] In September 2024, the distribution of free at-home COVID-19 tests was re-started. [125] [126]
Montgomery Blair (May 10, 1813 – July 27, 1883) was an American politician and lawyer from Maryland.He served in the Lincoln administration cabinet as Postmaster-General from 1861 to 1864, during the Civil War.
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has a message for America: The U.S. Postal Service is ready for a flood of election mail and is better positioned to do so than it was four years ago. The Postal ...
In 1839 he went to Washington, D.C., having been appointed clerk in the post office department, and was gradually promoted. In 1854 he was appointed first Assistant Postmaster General during the presidency of Franklin Pierce, [2] and in January, 1861, while acting as Postmaster General, he was questioned by a member of Congress from South Carolina with regard to the franking privilege.