Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on International Security, Proliferation, and Federal ServicesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The Postal Service in the 21st Century
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on International Security, Proliferation, and Federal ServicesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The Postal Service in the 21st Century
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on International Security, Proliferation, and Federal ServicesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
The Postal Service in the 21st Century
Author: United States SenatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The postal service in the 21st century: the USPS transformation plan: hearing before the International Security, Proliferation and Federal Services Subcommittee of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress
The Postal Service
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service, and the District of ColumbiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Neither Snow Nor Rain
Author: Devin LeonardPublisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802189970
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
“[The] book makes you care what happens to its main protagonist, the U.S. Postal Service itself. And, as such, it leaves you at the end in suspense.” —USA Today Founded by Benjamin Franklin, the United States Postal Service was the information network that bound far-flung Americans together, and yet, it is slowly vanishing. Critics say it is slow and archaic. Mail volume is down. The workforce is shrinking. Post offices are closing. In Neither Snow Nor Rain, journalist Devin Leonard tackles the fascinating, centuries-long history of the USPS, from the first letter carriers through Franklin’s days, when postmasters worked out of their homes and post roads cut new paths through the wilderness. Under Andrew Jackson, the post office was molded into a vast patronage machine, and by the 1870s, over seventy percent of federal employees were postal workers. As the country boomed, USPS aggressively developed new technology, from mobile post offices on railroads and airmail service to mechanical sorting machines and optical character readers. Neither Snow Nor Rain is a rich, multifaceted history, full of remarkable characters, from the stamp-collecting FDR, to the revolutionaries who challenged USPS’s monopoly on mail, to the renegade union members who brought the system—and the country—to a halt in the 1970s. “Delectably readable . . . Leonard’s account offers surprises on almost every other page . . . [and] delivers both the triumphs and travails with clarity, wit and heart.” —Chicago Tribune
How the Post Office Created America
Author: Winifred GallagherPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399564039
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A masterful history of a long underappreciated institution, How the Post Office Created America examines the surprising role of the postal service in our nation’s political, social, economic, and physical development. The founders established the post office before they had even signed the Declaration of Independence, and for a very long time, it was the U.S. government’s largest and most important endeavor—indeed, it was the government for most citizens. This was no conventional mail network but the central nervous system of the new body politic, designed to bind thirteen quarrelsome colonies into the United States by delivering news about public affairs to every citizen—a radical idea that appalled Europe’s great powers. America’s uniquely democratic post powerfully shaped its lively, argumentative culture of uncensored ideas and opinions and made it the world’s information and communications superpower with astonishing speed. Winifred Gallagher presents the history of the post office as America’s own story, told from a fresh perspective over more than two centuries. The mandate to deliver the mail—then “the media”—imposed the federal footprint on vast, often contested parts of the continent and transformed a wilderness into a social landscape of post roads and villages centered on post offices. The post was the catalyst of the nation’s transportation grid, from the stagecoach lines to the airlines, and the lifeline of the great migration from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It enabled America to shift from an agrarian to an industrial economy and to develop the publishing industry, the consumer culture, and the political party system. Still one of the country’s two major civilian employers, the post was the first to hire women, African Americans, and other minorities for positions in public life. Starved by two world wars and the Great Depression, confronted with the country’s increasingly anti-institutional mind-set, and struggling with its doubled mail volume, the post stumbled badly in the turbulent 1960s. Distracted by the ensuing modernization of its traditional services, however, it failed to transition from paper mail to email, which prescient observers saw as its logical next step. Now the post office is at a crossroads. Before deciding its future, Americans should understand what this grand yet overlooked institution has accomplished since 1775 and consider what it should and could contribute in the twenty-first century. Gallagher argues that now, more than ever before, the imperiled post office deserves this effort, because just as the founders anticipated, it created forward-looking, communication-oriented, idea-driven America.
The Postal Service in the 21st Century
Author: Daniel K. AkakaPublisher:
ISBN: 9780756743925
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
Witnesses: John E. Potter, Postmaster General, U.S. Postal Service; & David M. Walker, Comptroller General, General Accounting Office (GAO).
Universal Postal Service in the 21st. Century
Author: Franklin AliPublisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN: 9783659319365
Category : Letter mail handling
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Almost like the Holy Grail, the Universal Postal Service is deemed inviolable by many in the global postal fraternity. Numerous postal operators across the world still hold to the position of a single postal territory, to ensure that all postal customers enjoy the right to a hitherto unchallenged universal postal service involving the permanent provision of quality basic postal services at all points in their respective territories, at affordable prices. However, the grim reality is that the postal sector has undergone a significant transformation and the landscape has changed dramatically. Against this backdrop, the goal of maintaining the status quo of a static and traditional universal postal service is increasingly untenable. A dynamic and flexible capacity/market based approach has been developed to overhaul the archaic universal postal service; thereby increasing its relevance, applicability and commercial robustness. In a very real sense, it is "high noon" for the traditional universal postal service. The proposed capacity/market based approach will facilitate the creation of a vibrant new world order for the universal postal service best suited to the 21st. century.
The Postal Service
Author: United States. CongressPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781983768187
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
The Postal Service : planning for the 21st century : hearing before the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service, and the District of Columbia of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, July 26, 2007.
The Postal Age
Author: David M. HenkinPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226327221
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Americans commonly recognize television, e-mail, and instant messaging as agents of pervasive cultural change. But many of us may not realize that what we now call snail mail was once just as revolutionary. As David M. Henkin argues in The Postal Age, a burgeoning postal network initiated major cultural shifts during the nineteenth century, laying the foundation for the interconnectedness that now defines our ever-evolving world of telecommunications. This fascinating history traces these shifts from their beginnings in the mid-1800s, when cheaper postage, mass literacy, and migration combined to make the long-established postal service a more integral and viable part of everyday life. With such dramatic events as the Civil War and the gold rush underscoring the importance and necessity of the post, a surprisingly broad range of Americans—male and female, black and white, native-born and immigrant—joined this postal network, regularly interacting with distant locales before the existence of telephones or even the widespread use of telegraphy. Drawing on original letters and diaries from the period, as well as public discussions of the expanding postal system, Henkin tells the story of how these Americans adjusted to a new world of long-distance correspondence, crowded post offices, junk mail, valentines, and dead letters. The Postal Age paints a vibrant picture of a society where possibilities proliferated for the kinds of personal and impersonal communications that we often associate with more recent historical periods. In doing so, it significantly increases our understanding of both antebellum America and our own chapter in the history of communications.