A Mailbox Should Be Outstanding In Your Yard

A Mailbox Should Be Outstanding in Your Yard

by

Kathy Moran

We ve always taken for granted the ease with which we can communicate with people around the world. Long before the advent of e-mail, daily trips to our

mailboxes

brought us everything from anxiously anticipated cards, letters, and checks, to deeply dreaded bills, notices, and those bragging holiday newsletters from relatives we ve barely met.

Even before the telephone was invented, people relied upon the Post Office Department, forerunner of the United States Postal Service, as virtually the only way of corresponding long-distance. In colonial days, people sent messages back and forth through friends, merchants, clergymen, and others whose livelihoods involved traveling.

In those days, however, as most of the mail was going to, and coming from, their native England, the first official postal service for the colonists was established in 1633, mainly to handle this route. In keeping with the English custom of using taverns and coffee houses as repositories, the General Court of Massachusetts designated Richard Fairbanks Tavern, in Boston, as the official office for overseas mail.

In 1673, New York s Governor, Francis Lovelace, set up a postal route by which mail was delivered once a month between New York and Boston. Known as the Old Boston Post Road, it still exists as part of U.S. Route 1. In Pennsylvania, William Penn established the first post office in 1683.

In May of 1775, as the colonies were separating from England, a Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia to establish an independent government. As the postal service had theretofore been controlled by the Crown, one of the delegates first orders of business was to organize a new system for delivering the mail. To accomplish this, they chose Benjamin Franklin to head a Committee of Investigation, which recommended in a report the appointment of a Postmaster General to the 13 colonies. After careful consideration, the Continental Congress named Franklin to that office on July 26, 1775.

Since that time, postal carriers have delivered the mail on foot, as well as by using horses, stagecoaches, ships, balloons, mules, helicopters, planes, trains, and automobiles. Instead of dropping it off at taverns or general stores, they bring it right to our mailboxes, which have also evolved throughout the years. Much more than simple tin containers for our letters, cards, and bills, they are often used as expressions of our personal styles, or extensions of our homes d cors.

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