Postal service helped build nation, remains important
If officially began in a tavern in Massachusetts. No, the bar wasn’t named “Cheers,” but looking back, a little rejoicing probably is in order.
In early colonial times, mail was an iffy proposition. Correspondents depended on friends, merchants and Native Americans to carry messages between the colonies. However to handle the growingly important mail traveling between the colonies and England, the first official notice of postal service in…