The US Postal Service is celebrating its 250th anniversary later this week, and you will not have to check your mailbox for invitation.
The agency’s half -weram will be marked by a program at two and a half centuries after two and a half centuries after two and a half centuries after a program at Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum at Washington, DC. Two newly declared memorial tickets will also mark the opportunity.
The USPS was established on 26 July 1775 as the US Post Office Department, by the second Continental Congress decree. In 1970, the Congress reorganized the USPOD at an independent agency-modern USPS from a cabinet level department. Historians see the establishment of a national postal service as an important factor to ensure that the young countries remain integrated during the revolutionary war.
One of the new memorial tickets announced by the USPS on Wednesday, one of the first two American postage stamps in 1847 introduces Benjamin Franklin in a modern interpretation. Franklin, Participated in the Second Continental Congress, served as the first American Postmaster General after summarizing in a equivalent role in British rule from 1757 to 1774.
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The other stamp agency celebrates men and women with a new collection of cityscape paintings, depicting a post worker on their route through all four sessions. A 32-Page Booklet-USPS was also announced only on the fourth-western-Thursday and is ready to facilitate the selected stamp artwork in the history of service.
David steinerThe newly appointed US Postmaster General said that new stamps represent permanent values that can learn from every American, including perseverance, belief and imagination.
“United States for Postal Service, today, is a 250 -year milestone to make postal service,” stainer said in a statement on Wednesday. “These tickets will serve as a window in our shared history.”
The museum does not comment on current or political programs.
Monies of sources come to Saturday celebrations when President Trump was twisting the USP in the Commerce Department, or possibly privatizing it. Postmaster General Lewis Daiz announced that he would step down in February, and a former member of the Fedex Board Steiner took over earlier this month.
The steinner told the USPS employees that “he did not believe that the postal service should be privatized or it should become a appropriated part of the federal government.”
Smithsonian National Postal Museum 
But on Saturday, the National Postal Museum will celebrate the family friendly postal party. The museum will include activities, crafts and sports as well as a Franklin Reanent, allowing children to learn postal history directly from the founding father. Other historical touchpoints highlighted at the event include Omo, the 19th -century terrier that serves as an informal postal service mascot, and Stinson Relative from the late 1930s, an early airmail carrier model.
The incident would not be looking at just the past, however. The museum’s youth and family program manager Anne Matolck stated that the event is “looking back and looking forward, at the same time,” displays about the future of the postal service.
“We often do not think of all the methods that the postal service is connecting us to our family, our community, other places,” said the Mattolk. “We want people to think of those connections, look at them in their lives, and share things with all the postal service workers.”
The museum is working closely with other Smithsonian institutions for the event, including an airmail delivery game with the National Air and Space Museum, an airmail delivery game with an airmail delivery game, National Museum of American History and DC Public Library with Storytime.
Free event will run from 11 am to 4 pm
