Linda Hickling

Articles of Confederation, 1776

Article 1, Section 8,

Clause 7:

Empowers Congress

“to establish Post

Offices and “Post

Roads”

Benjamin Franklin, First Postmaster

General July 26, 1776 to Nov 7, 1776

Postal Service Act, 1792 Enacted by President George Washington

Newspapers Were the First Postal Subsidized Industry 1795

Andrew Jackson, 7th President by executive decree invited his PMG appointee to “sit on the

President’s Cabinet

1829

Secretary of State

Secretary of the Treasury

Secretary of War

Attorney General

Postmaster General2

Secretary of the Navy

1838 Post Roads

1838

Samuel Morse, 1837

The Mail Enabled a Takeoff in Communication

Postal Act of 1851

USPS’s Place in American

Architecture

18966

1904

The firm of McKim, Mead & White designed the New York General Post Office, which opened to the public on Labor Day in 1914. One of the firm's architects, William Mitchell Kendall, was the son of a classics scholar and read Greek for pleasure. He selected the "Neither snow nor rain . . ." inscription, which he modified from a translation by Professor George Herbert Palmer of Harvard University, and the Post Office Department approved it.

Postal Aviation

May 15, 1918, the first air mail route in the United States was established between New York, N. Y., and Washington, D. C., with a stop at Philadelphia, Pa.

Air Mail Launched Commercial Aviation

1920 Air-Route

1963

1970 Postal Reorganization Act

In 1982, U.S. postage stamps became “Postal Products"

GovernancePostmaster General / CEOBoard of Governors

2013 postal reform bill (S.1486)

20% Workforce Reduction in FOUR Years

“The ultimate test of a great team is results .” -Patrick M. Lencioni

Cutback Beaucracy; First Class Monopoly

New Aggressive Marketing

Hess Trucks Postal Trucks

History Doll: , daughter of 1928 American Air Mail Pilots

Sponsorship:

“Before the Kids go to school, be sure they have a breakfast!”

USPS Television NETWORK

‘Signed, Sealed, Delivered’