The following is an article from The Annals of Imp... ...g long been genuine admirers of the United States Postal Service (USPS), which gives amazingly reliable service especially compared with many other countr... ...the item were not wrapped? How patient are pos...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/01/23/Postal-Experiments/
(Image credit: Flicker user "The Wanderer's Eye"... ...y, using a chicken, an egg, and the United States Postal Service (USPS). I mailed the chicken and the eg... ...dhere to the restrictions described in the Postal Service ’s Domestic Mail Manual [DMM] 57, as upda... ...mestic Mail...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/04/which-came-first-%e2%80%94-the-chicken-or-the-egg/
From the archives of the National Postal Museum comes this photo of a postal carrier with a young boy in his mailbag. After p... ...th a young boy in his mailbag. After parcel post service was introduced in 1913, at least two children we... ...in 1913, at least two...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/07/12/children-mailed-by-parcel-post/
For the past three years, Phillip Herr of the US G... ...by Congress to find out what's wrong with the US Postal Service . He came to this conclusion (unsurprising to some... ...e, I'm sure):Herr and his team concluded that the postal service 's business model was so badly broken that collaps... ...l volume i...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/27/us-postal-service-is-collapse-imminent/
The package was en route from Appomattox, Virginia... ...Rico. At the post office in Lynchburg, Virginia, postal workers noticed the box was moving. They had to g... ...ed the package, inspectors found a ferret inside! Postal workers promptly named it Stamps. Photos from th... ...orkers promptly named it Sta...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/25/how-not-to-mail-a-ferret/
The British Royal Mail service commissioned Studio Dempsey to create first class...
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/09/iconic-album-art-on-stamps/
Imagine that your mail comes delivered by a mule... ...issile! These are just a couple of methods the US Postal Service has used, tested, or considered in it's 234-year... ...-via Digg (image credit: Smithsonian National Postal Museum)
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/05/10-ways-to-deliver-mail/
