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Postal history has become a philatelic collecting speciality in its own right. Whereas traditional philately is concerned with the study of the stamps per se, including the technical aspects of stamp production and distribution, philatelic postal history refers to stamps as historical documents; similarly re postmarks, postcards, envelopes and the letters they contain.
1680 - The first penny post system, known as the London Penny Post, for local delivery was introduced by William Dockwra in London. [ 10 ] 1690 – Leon II Pajot builds a privately operated postal center on 9 rue des Déchargeurs in Paris [ 9 ] - International Horse Carriages carry Mail from Paris to Pajot et Rouillé or Thurn und Taxis Post ...
Postal service in the United States began with the delivery of stampless letters whose cost was borne by the receiving person, later encompassed pre-paid letters carried by private mail carriers and provisional post offices, and culminated in a system of universal prepayment that required all letters to bear nationally issued adhesive postage stamps.
Overthrowing the London-oriented imperial postal service in 1774–1775, printers enlisted merchants and the new political leadership, and created a new postal system. [5] The United States Post Office (USPO) was created on July 26, 1775, by decree of the Second Continental Congress. [6] Benjamin Franklin headed it briefly.
The full eagle logo, used in various versions from 1970 to 1993. The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or simply the Postal Service, is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States, its insular areas and associated states.
The history of the British post office (Harvard University Press, 1912) online. John, Richard R. Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse (1995) excerpt; Le Roux, Muriel, et al. eds. A Concise History of the French Post Office: From Its Origins to the Present Time (2018) Lowe, Robson (1951).
During the first seven weeks of the Civil War, the U.S. Post Office still delivered mail from the seceded states. Mail that was postmarked after the date of a state's admission into the Confederacy through May 31, 1861, and bearing U.S. (Union) postage is deemed to represent 'Confederate State Usage of U.S. Stamps'. i.e., Confederate covers franked with Union stamps. [4]
List of post offices in Colorado; List of post offices in Colorado: A–F; List of post offices in Colorado: G–O; List of post offices in Colorado: P–Z; Postage stamps and postal history of the Confederate States; Minnie M. Cox