Author: J. Gregory Sidak
Publisher: American Enterprise Institute
ISBN: 9780844738925
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Six articles contribute to the attention on the U.S. Postal Service in response to advances in telecommunications and communications and new thinking about regulated industries.
Governing the Postal Service
Author: J. Gregory Sidak
Publisher: American Enterprise Institute
ISBN: 9780844738925
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Six articles contribute to the attention on the U.S. Postal Service in response to advances in telecommunications and communications and new thinking about regulated industries.
Publisher: American Enterprise Institute
ISBN: 9780844738925
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Six articles contribute to the attention on the U.S. Postal Service in response to advances in telecommunications and communications and new thinking about regulated industries.
Code of Federal Regulations
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative law
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
Book Description
Special edition of the Federal register. Subject/agency index for rules codified in the Code of Federal Regulations, revised as of Jan. 1 ...
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative law
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
Book Description
Special edition of the Federal register. Subject/agency index for rules codified in the Code of Federal Regulations, revised as of Jan. 1 ...
How the Post Office Created America
Author: Winifred Gallagher
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
Appropriations for and Legislation Concerning the Post-office Department and Postal Service
Author: United States
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Postal Service Policy Governing the Fueling of Vehicles
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Forms Catalog
Author: United States Postal Service
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Winston V. United States Postal Service
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Regulations Governing the Operation of Postal-savings Depositories Promulgated by the Postmaster General Together with the Act of Congress Approved June 25, 1910, as Amended by Act of March 4, 1911
Author: United States. Post Office Dept
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postal savings banks
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postal savings banks
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court [and District Court] of the Canal Zone
Author: Canal Zone. Supreme Court
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Canal Zone Reports ...
Author: United States. District Court (Panama Canal Zone)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description