Neither Snow Nor Rain

Neither Snow Nor Rain
Author: Devin Leonard
Publsiher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2016-05-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780802189974

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“[The] book makes you care what happens to its main protagonist, the U.S. Postal Service itself. And, as such, it leaves you at the end in suspense.” —USA Today Founded by Benjamin Franklin, the United States Postal Service was the information network that bound far-flung Americans together, and yet, it is slowly vanishing. Critics say it is slow and archaic. Mail volume is down. The workforce is shrinking. Post offices are closing. In Neither Snow Nor Rain, journalist Devin Leonard tackles the fascinating, centuries-long history of the USPS, from the first letter carriers through Franklin’s days, when postmasters worked out of their homes and post roads cut new paths through the wilderness. Under Andrew Jackson, the post office was molded into a vast patronage machine, and by the 1870s, over seventy percent of federal employees were postal workers. As the country boomed, USPS aggressively developed new technology, from mobile post offices on railroads and airmail service to mechanical sorting machines and optical character readers. Neither Snow Nor Rain is a rich, multifaceted history, full of remarkable characters, from the stamp-collecting FDR, to the revolutionaries who challenged USPS’s monopoly on mail, to the renegade union members who brought the system—and the country—to a halt in the 1970s. “Delectably readable . . . Leonard’s account offers surprises on almost every other page . . . [and] delivers both the triumphs and travails with clarity, wit and heart.” —Chicago Tribune

Post Office

Post Office
Author: Charles Bukowski
Publsiher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780061844041

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Charles Bukowski’s classic roman à clef, Post Office, captures the despair, drudgery, and happy dissolution of his alter ego, Henry Chinaski, as he enters middle age. Post Office is an account of Bukowski alter-ego Henry Chinaski. It covers the period of Chinaski’s life from the mid-1950s to his resignation from the United States Postal Service in 1969, interrupted only by a brief hiatus during which he supported himself by gambling at horse races. “The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates “He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter

How the Post Office Created America

How the Post Office Created America
Author: Winifred Gallagher
Publsiher: Penguin
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2016-06-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780399564031

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A masterful history of a long underappreciated institution, How the Post Office Created America examines the surprising role of the postal service in our nation’s political, social, economic, and physical development. The founders established the post office before they had even signed the Declaration of Independence, and for a very long time, it was the U.S. government’s largest and most important endeavor—indeed, it was the government for most citizens. This was no conventional mail network but the central nervous system of the new body politic, designed to bind thirteen quarrelsome colonies into the United States by delivering news about public affairs to every citizen—a radical idea that appalled Europe’s great powers. America’s uniquely democratic post powerfully shaped its lively, argumentative culture of uncensored ideas and opinions and made it the world’s information and communications superpower with astonishing speed. Winifred Gallagher presents the history of the post office as America’s own story, told from a fresh perspective over more than two centuries. The mandate to deliver the mail—then “the media”—imposed the federal footprint on vast, often contested parts of the continent and transformed a wilderness into a social landscape of post roads and villages centered on post offices. The post was the catalyst of the nation’s transportation grid, from the stagecoach lines to the airlines, and the lifeline of the great migration from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It enabled America to shift from an agrarian to an industrial economy and to develop the publishing industry, the consumer culture, and the political party system. Still one of the country’s two major civilian employers, the post was the first to hire women, African Americans, and other minorities for positions in public life. Starved by two world wars and the Great Depression, confronted with the country’s increasingly anti-institutional mind-set, and struggling with its doubled mail volume, the post stumbled badly in the turbulent 1960s. Distracted by the ensuing modernization of its traditional services, however, it failed to transition from paper mail to email, which prescient observers saw as its logical next step. Now the post office is at a crossroads. Before deciding its future, Americans should understand what this grand yet overlooked institution has accomplished since 1775 and consider what it should and could contribute in the twenty-first century. Gallagher argues that now, more than ever before, the imperiled post office deserves this effort, because just as the founders anticipated, it created forward-looking, communication-oriented, idea-driven America.

Continued Examination of the Postal Service Move Toward Centralized Mail Delivery

Continued Examination of the Postal Service Move Toward Centralized Mail Delivery
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Government Information, Justice, and Agriculture Subcommittee
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 564
Release: 1985
Genre: Postal service
ISBN: STANFORD:36105021028043

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Increase of Salaries for the Postal Service and Classification of Substitute Employees Hearings Before a Subcommittee on S 1342 S 1343 April 9 and 15 1942 77 2

Increase of Salaries for the Postal Service and Classification of Substitute Employees  Hearings Before a Subcommittee      on S  1342   S  1343    April 9 and 15  1942   77 2
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Post Offices and Post Roads
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 92
Release: 1942
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: STANFORD:36105119517337

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Survey and Study of the Postal Service Hearings Before a Subcommittee Of 80 1 on Air Mail Dec 10 12 and 15 1947

Survey and Study of the Postal Service  Hearings Before a Subcommittee Of     80 1  on Air Mail  Dec  10  12  and 15  1947
Author: United States. Congress. House. Post Office and Civil Service
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1948
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: STANFORD:36105045538480

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Treasury Postal Service and general government appropriations for fiscal year 2003

Treasury  Postal Service  and general government appropriations for fiscal year 2003
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2002
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: STANFORD:36105050262687

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Treasury Postal Service and General Government Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1999

Treasury  Postal Service  and General Government Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1999
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 126
Release: 1998
Genre: United States
ISBN: STANFORD:36105119580467

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