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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : United States Postal Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The postal service was created under Benjamin Franklin on July 26, 1775 by decree of the Second Continental Congress.
Amtrak), but is legally defined as an "independent establishment of the executive branch of the Government of the United States," as it is wholly owned by the government and controlled indirectly by the President.
Stamps with no value shown or denominated by a letter are also still valid at their purchase price.
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 United States Postal Service Encyclopedia Articles @ LaunchBase.org (Launch Base)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The postal service was created in Philadelphia under Benjamin Franklin on July 26, 1775 by decree of the Second Continental Congress.
The USPS is the third-largest employer in the United States (after the United States Department of Defense and Wal-Mart) and operates the largest civilian vehicle fleet in the world, with an estimated 170,000 vehicles, the majority of which are the easily identified "USPS Mail Trucks," as shown in the pictures below.
In the early 1990s, there was a widely publicized wave of workplace shootings by disgruntled employees at USPS facilities, which led to a postal regulation that prohibits the possession of firearms by employees in all major postal facilities.
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 History of United States Postal Relations with China
A coalition of international forces, including those from the United States, were sent to end the sieges and reassert foreign influence in China.
In 1919 the United States introduced sixteen denominations of surcharged stamps for use in the Post Offices in China.
The surcharged value was exactly twice the face value of the stamp, reflecting the value of the local Chinese currency which traded at 2-to-1 to the U.S. dollar.
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 Stamp Collecting Directory: Postal History
Confederate States of America (CSA) Stamps and Postal History
Emirates Postal Museum - Abu Dhabi Postal History
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