YOU PROBABLY DIDN'T KNOW

Benjamin Franklin was the first postmaster general and was granted a salary of $1,000 per year for the position.

The US Postal Service currently processes and delivers 472.1 million pieces of mail every day.

A single sheet of
paper was often used and folded up so the outside was blank and the inside of the paper contained the letter. This saved on postage, as mailing individual sheets of paper was expensive in the 1800s.

Before the railroad,
mail was sent from the West
Coast to the East Coast via going down and across the
Isthmus of Panama.Letters to
Santa Claus should be mailed to his workshop on 123 Elf Road, North Pole, 88888, not his home address, per the US Postal Service’s request.

There is no official motto for the US Postal Service.

The easiest zip code in the US to remember is 12345
(Schenectady, NY).

The 1st of July is National Postal Worker Day.

During the Civil War, the United States banned the  exchange of mail between citizens of the northern and southern states.

A stamp collector is called a philatelist.

Mules are still used
to deliver mail to the Havasupai Indians, who live at the bottom of an eight-mile trail in the Grand Canyon.

Mail has been delivered using
many different methods, including trucks, trains, planes,
hovercrafts, boats, ferries, helicopters, subways, bicycles, and mules.

In 1907,
Pocahontas became the first native American to be featured on a stamp.