From Benjamin Franklin to Pony Express to anthrax: How the US Postal Service shaped a nation
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FILE - Barry Stevens, portraying Benjamin Franklin, right, walks past a just unveiled stamp marking the 250th anniversary of the postal service, Wednesday, July 23, 2025, in Washington, as Postmaster General David Steiner looks on. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)FILE - This illustration depicts a Pony Express rider, left, greeting Western Union linemen as they string wires of the first transcontinental telegraph in 1861. (AP Photo/File)This photo provided by the Library of Congress shows people at the Nethers, Va., post office in Oct. 1935, during the Great Depression. (Arthur Rothstein/Farm Security Administration/Library of Congress via AP)In this photo provided by the National Archives and Records Administration, mail is loaded onto a Curtiss JN-4H "Jenny" biplane, May 15, 1918, at Bustleton Field near Philadelphia, while U.S. Army personnel look on. (National Archives and Records Administration via AP)In this photo provided by the National Archives, Maj. Charity E. Adams and Capt. Mary Kearney, of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, inspect the first contingent of Black members of the Women's Army Corps assigned to overseas service in England on Feb. 15, 1945. (Holt/U.S. Army via AP)
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FILE - Barry Stevens, portraying Benjamin Franklin, right, walks past a just unveiled stamp marking the 250th anniversary of the postal service, Wednesday, July 23, 2025, in Washington, as Postmaster General David Steiner looks on. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)