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United States Post Office Department - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Post Office Department was the former name of the United States Postal Service when it was a Cabinet department. |
 | | During the Civil War, postal services in the Confederacy were provided by the Confederate Post-office Department, headed by Postmaster General John Henninger Reagan. |
 | | The Postal Reorganization Act signed by President Richard Nixon on August 12, 1970, replaced the cabinet-level Post Office Department with the government-owned corporation, the United States Postal Service. |
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