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The United States Postal Service® is an independent establishment of the Executive Branch of the United States Government. It operates in a businesslike way.
In the more than two centuries since USPS® began, it has grown and changed with America. Discovering the history of the Postal Service is a journey into the history of transportation, economics, industrialization, communications, and government.
Today, the Postal Service™ delivers hundreds of millions of messages each day to more than 141 million homes and businesses.
This is the story of the evolution of the Postal Service and the important role it has played in the development of the United States.
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Did You Know?
When the million-dollar Hope Diamond was donated to the Smithsonian Institution, it was mailed from New York City to Washington, D.C., in a brown paper parcel.
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