How the Post Office Created America Quotes

“If you would not be forgotten As soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write things worth reading, Or do things worth the writing.”
― Winifred Gallagher, How the Post Office Created America: A History

“(The USPS owns an envelope, smudged with lunar dust and postmarked on the moon in 1971, that bears a proof for the Apollo 15 stamps yet to be printed.)”
― Winifred Gallagher, How the Post Office Created America: A History

“Just seventeen years after Benjamin Franklin became America’s first postmaster general, the Post Office Act utterly transformed his modest mail network. He would have been flabbergasted by the speed at which the post would become the federal government’s biggest, most important department and prime the United States to become the world’s most literate, best-informed country within two generations—surely one of the most significant, least appreciated developments in American history. •”
― Winifred Gallagher, How the Post Office Created America: A History