The Great Post Office Brand: stamps and service
Uncle Ted explains to children how stamps power the United States Post Office. He notes the Post Office Department as the world’s largest postal business, led by Postmaster General Harry S New since March, and describes the vast scale: billions of letters, trillions of grains of mail, a savings bank with hundreds of thousands of depositors, and massive mail sacks and twine used yearly.
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Romance of the stamp and the dead letter system
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