Stephanie Becker
Mrs. Galaviz
English 12
March 3, 2015
The United States Postal Service
“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” These words were scripted on the wall of one of the very first post offices in the United States. And, in the past, those very words rang true, starting with the very first man who inquired to the British about a postal service. The Pony Express was soon to follow. Many brave, young men rode across many miles of dangerous country, risking their own lives in order to deliver the mail to its final destination. Planes and trains came along soon after. And the United States Postal Service was booming. But nowadays many people seem to think that the United States Postal Service is running downhill. We all have something to thank them for whether it is a yearly birthday card, endless love letters, or our monthly paychecks.
All the way back in 1691, a man named Thomas Neele was able to receive a twenty-one year grant from the British Crown for the very first North American Postal Service. The grant would allow him to “erect, settle, and establish” an office that would receive and dispatch letters and packets. The office would “receive, send, and deliver” the same for a money fee. By February 1692, the first official postal service in America had begun (Wikipedia 2).
The United States Postal Service is able to trace its roots all the way back to 1775, when the first
If I were the current CEO for the United States Postal Service, I would be gravely concerned about the future of my business, as it has recently taken a steep plummet from its success and popularity in the 19th and 20th centuries. The USPS is now faced with the decision to renovate itself due to the extreme loss of business as technology takes over the 21st Century. Some say that the USPS should be entirely reconstructed because the business is only headed further downhill, while others say that paper mail is still very practical, more so than e-mail, and we must each write more letters to do our part in reviving the business to profitability again. Because the USPS has been such a vital part of our country through
In July 2009, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) listed the budget of the United States Postal Service as “high risk” and recommended oversight from Congress and the Executive Branch. Specifically, the GAO stated that “Amid challenging economic conditions and a changing business environment, USPS is facing a deteriorating financial situation in which it does not expect to cover its expenses and financial obligations in fiscal years 2009 and 2010” (“Restructuring”, 2009, pg. 1). The GAO claimed that the mail volume in 2009 would likely decrease by about 28 billion as compared to 2008 and that the USPS would likely see declining volumes for the next five years (“Restructuring”, 2009, pg. 1). Clearly, the USPS is currently facing a
If you ask people his/her opinion on the USPS system, many would agree that they could improve their ways, I agree with those people. The USPS was once this propitious system, but it is now very flawed. The USPS is allowing junk mail to enter our mailboxes without our permission and then leaves us no options to get out of it. Overall, the USPS system has no idea what they are doing because they are losing revenue over simple problems, with simple solutions.
6) February 20, 1792- Establishment of the US Postal Service. This was signed into action by George Washington via the Postal Service Act, establishing a federal nationwide service for sending and receiving mail. It was established due to the frustration of many citizens in not being able to reliably send and receive news.
Individual citizens: The USPS has the first class mail and standard mail that the citizens can use to use to send personal cards, letters, bill payments, etc. Basically anything that is less than 13 ounces can be sent through first class, and is delivered within 2 to 3 days in the contiguous states. First class mail is sealed and protected, while standard mailed is not (standard mail may also receive deferred handling but
On the day July 26th, 1775, the U.S. postal system is established by the Second Continental Congress, with Benjamin Franklin as its first postmaster general. Franklin (1706-1790) put in place the foundation for many aspects of today’s mail system. During early colonial times in the 1600s, few American colonists needed to send mail to each other; it was more likely that their correspondence was with letter writers in Britain. Mail deliveries from across the Atlantic were sporadic and could take many months to arrive. There were no post offices in the colonies, so mail was typically left at inns and taverns. In 1753, Benjamin Franklin, who had been postmaster of Philadelphia, became one of two joint postmasters general for the colonies. He made numerous improvements to the mail system,
The Postal Service was created by the British Parliament in 1711. In 1775 the United States postal system was established by the second continental congress with Benjamin Franklin as the first postmaster general. The Postal Service sends mail to people and businesses in the U.S. but also delivers packages. The White House is one of the postal service's biggest accomplishment because if it wasn’t for them you guys wouldn’t get mail or letters or communicate to one another from different states. “The Postal services delivers mail six days a week to nearly 143 million addresses. Every year this number increases by 2 million” (Joe Baca).
In the modern world, electronic ways of communicating have become the normal way to contact someone. With the advancements in this technology, we’ve been able to send messages and e-mails to someone all the way across the world; however, this technology originated from postal services, one being the United States Postal Service. The United States Postal Service,(USPS) was a pioneer for bringing mail to people all over the U.S. The key difference between these two services is the physicality of the USPS. If you wanted to send a love letter to your girlfriend or boyfriend across the country, an email can still be heartfelt, but also easily missed and disregarded.
In USA, It must be difficult, impossible in many ways, to be found a person who has not ever taken service from the United States Postal Service. United State Postal Service (USPS) has been having an ongoing story of enormous depth and tradition that regardless of the person’s identification, professions and even dwelling address, every single individual has the privilege, to get protected, effectual and reasonably priced mail service. Post office, U.S. Mail or Postal service is the different names to The United States Postal Service, and United States federal government is responsible for distributing the mail through the USPS in the United State of America is an independent agency of the United States federal government
O Henry's "A Caballero's Way" features people's interest for a postal service in order to get to its needs. People's interest goes back when the Cisko Kid was around in the Valley. Unfortunately back then there was a horrible postal service. Poor Tonia that sent that letter to the Lieutenant Sandridge in regards of the Cisko kid. Back then she could not send it to an actual true and known service, instead she had to send to some ordinary kid not an expert on the system. The service that the little kid provided is definitely to what the Former US Postal Service of Hidalgo, TX. can certainly provide today.
The United States Postal Service (USPS) is currently one of the largest companies in the United States. The USPS is currently in a situation where revenues are down and debt continues to increase. Intense
Mission of the Postal Service “The Postal Service shall have as its basic function the obligation to provide postal services to bind the Nation together through the personal, educational, literary, and business correspondence of the people. It shall provide prompt, reliable, and efficient services to patrons in all areas and shall render postal services to all communities. The United States Postal Service is an independent establishment of the Executive Branch of the Government of the
After a drastic increased demand for the postal services, the Post Office was looking towards technologies to help it automate processes with postal sorters, address readers and an advanced coding system for the times. By the 1970’s, the gained confidence in the service, demands increased even more. Again the USPS had to reach out to the latest and greatest technologies. It was early in the 1980’s when the USPS first purchased and used its first computer driven, single-line Optical Character Reader (OCR) which converted all of the data into a barcode. This became a huge money saver as forward post offices only had to have a less expensive barcode sorting system. ("The history of the United States Postal Service," n.d.)
The first well-documented postal service was in Rome (62 B.C.-A.D.14) during the time of Augustus Caesar, the service was called cursus publicus and was provided with light