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Folder title: | "A Few Concrete Wrongs" |
Date: | 12/28/1901 |
Description: | Article about bulk mailing. "A Few Concrete Wrongs" |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Articles |
Folder number: | 06-04-16 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service |
Original source: | The Week |
Folder title: | "Abraham Cohen = Deputy Postmaster, Georgetown, S. C. (1789-1800) |
Date: | 03/01/1959 |
Description: | About the life of Abraham Cohen, Deputy Postmaster, Georgetown, South Carolina. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Reprints |
Folder number: | 05-06-04 |
Subject(s): | History - Postal ; Postal Service - Employees |
Original source: | Publication of the American Jewish Historical Society |
Folder title: | "CENTEL Information System Will Simplify Mail Forwarding" Washington Business (Washington Post) July 13, 1987 |
Date: | 07/13/1987 |
Description: | New contact for a mail forwarding system. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Articles |
Folder number: | 05-06-13 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Automation |
Original source: | Washington Post |
Folder title: | "First Flying Truck for Overnight Air Mail" |
Date: | 04/01/1925 |
Description: | Magazine article concerning the acquisition of cargo airplanes for transporting mail. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Articles |
Folder number: | 06-05-56 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Air Mail ; Air mail service |
Folder title: | "Illegal Payoff to High U. S. Postal Oficial" - AP WX 10.17.86 |
Date: | 10/02/1986 |
Description: | John Gnau has been found guilty of bribing a high U.S Postal official. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Wire Service Messages |
Folder number: | 05-06-15 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Employees |
Original source: | AP Wire Service |
Folder title: | "Parcel Post = Paying the Freight for Alaskans", Washington Post (July 30, 1990) p. A-1. |
Date: | 07/30/1990 |
Description: | Article "Parcel Post. Paying the Freight for Alaskans" about shipments to Alaska wilderness and the cost. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Articles |
Folder number: | 05-06-10 |
Subject(s): | Parcel Post ; Postal Service |
Original source: | Washington Post |
Folder title: | "Postal Changes Good and Bad" |
Date: | 01/01/1901 |
Description: | Suggestions of improvements in various mail services. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Articles |
Folder number: | 05-07-39 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service |
Original source: | The Week the Outlook |
Folder title: | "Reforms in the Postal Service" |
Date: | 09/30/1907 |
Description: | Report of accounts regarding the business system of the Post Office Department and postal service. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Articles |
Folder number: | 05-07-40 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service |
Folder title: | "The Rates of Second Class Mail" |
Date: | 01/01/1912 |
Description: | The article describes the rates that pertain to second class mail. "The Rates on Second Class Mail." |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Articles |
Folder number: | 06-04-18 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Postal Rates |
Original source: | The Week |
Folder title: | "The Sea" |
Date: | 11/11/1971 |
Description: | Correspondence concerning the U. S. Postal Service publication "The Sea" |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Press Releases |
Folder number: | 06-04-07 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
Folder title: | 115.3 Machines, Meter Advertising in Cancellations |
Date: | 12/14/1936 |
Description: | Correspondence dealing with meter machine cancellations used by various businesses. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence |
Folder number: | 03-07-08 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Metered Mail |
Folder title: | 12/21/68 - Lexington, KY. P.O. - Campbell |
Date: | 12/31/1968 |
Description: | Letters concerning postal service at the Lexington Post Office. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence |
Folder number: | 02-06-07 |
Subject(s): | Post Office Stations & Branches ; Air mail service ; Air Routes |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | 130 Byrd Anarctic Expedition Number 3 1939 |
Date: | 07/10/1939 |
Description: | Correspondence on and for a sub-post office at Little America (Byrd Expedition). Map of Antarctica and information about the Snow Cruiser versus the aero plane. Picture of his airplane |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Photographs |
Folder number: | 04-01-07 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Persons |
Folder title: | 130.2 Philatelic Matters Stamp Agency at Wash. D.C. Jan. 1949 to |
Date: | 01/03/1948 |
Description: | Complaints of service in the Philatelic Agency including the postage charge for mailing stamps requested by mail. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence |
Folder number: | 04-04-09 |
Subject(s): | Administration ; Postal Service - Employees ; United States Postal Inspection Service |
Folder title: | 130.6 Philatelic Matters United States Defense Bases |
Date: | 01/16/1941 |
Description: | Requests for information regarding covers from United States Defense Bases. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence |
Folder number: | 03-05-17 |
Subject(s): | Covers (Philately) ; United States Army - Postal Service ; United States Navy - Postal Service |
Folder title: | 130.8 Philatelic Matters Antarctic Expedition 1946-47 |
Date: | 05/31/1936 |
Description: | Letters concerning mail from Little America. Statement of Agency and Factory Conditions from the U. S. Stamped Envelope Agency, Dayton, Ohio. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence |
Folder number: | 06-05-58 |
Subject(s): | United States Navy Postal Service ; Postal stationery |
Folder title: | 155 Postal Laws and Regulations. |
Date: | 10/24/1912 |
Description: | Letters asking or affirming postal laws and regulations. Some issues in the file: the use of the wording "U.S. Postage" in recent stamp issues, the design of the U.S. Flag, cancellation of the U. S. Flag. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence |
Folder number: | 01-02-46 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Laws Legislation ; Administration |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | 165 Postal Service Act |
Date: | 12/31/1908 |
Description: | Correspondence pertaining to postal service laws and legislation. A bill (HR27067) from 1909 to amend postal laws. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Legislation |
Folder number: | 01-02-47 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Laws Legislation |
Original source: | Post Office Department Congress |
Folder title: | 1859 Reproductions of Advertisements of Stage and Steamship Mail |
Date: | 01/01/1859 |
Description: | Advertisements for Mail Service from the Texas Almanac 1859 via: stage coach, passenger and freight train, steamship to the far west. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Advertisements |
Folder number: | 01-02-17 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Postal Service - Transportation. |
Original source: | Texas Almanac 1859 |
Folder title: | 1968 Air Taxi Schedule - Rates, Routes, etc. |
Date: | 04/16/1966 |
Description: | Report showing Regional air taxi listings of routes, operations, rate, mileage, required volume and aircraft used |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Reports ; Lists |
Folder number: | 03-01-05 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Air Mail ; Air Routes |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | 1968 Senate Appropriation Hearings |
Date: | 05/07/1968 |
Description: | Statements and letters pertaining to improvements and regulations for the Post Office Department at the House Subcommittee0 5/21/1968 and Senate Appropriations Hearings 05/07/1968. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Speeches ; Memorandums |
Folder number: | 02-02-29 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Law and Legislation ; Speeches |
Folder title: | 1969 - Bio.'s of Asst. PMG's |
Description: | A series of photographs, biographical sketches, and press releases. on Assistant Postmasters, Kenneth Houseman, David Nelson, James Ward Hargrove, John L O'Mara, El Elmer Theodore Klassen. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Photographs ; Biographies |
Folder number: | 02-02-36 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Postmasters ; Persons ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | 1969 - Post Master General Winton M. Blount, |
Date: | 05/01/1968 |
Description: | This file contains information from a wide variety of medium pertaining to Post Master General William Blount. Photographs and Biographical Sketch. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Photographs ; Biographies ; Articles |
Folder number: | 02-02-35 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Postmasters ; Persons |
Folder title: | 1969 - Q and A's Winton M. Blount |
Date: | 01/09/1969 |
Description: | This file contains questions for Winton Blount: Will there be another increase in postal rates? How much have transportation costs increased in the past five years? Continuing of railway service? Do you agree or disagree with President Johnson's rare increase proposal? |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Memorandums |
Folder number: | 02-02-41 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Postmasters |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | 1969 Press Conf. Post Masterships - PMG Blount |
Date: | 02/05/1969 |
Description: | A press conference with Winton Blount and President Nixon announcing the removal of all postmasters and rural carrier appointments from politics. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Press Releases |
Folder number: | 02-02-40 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Postal Service - Postmasters ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
Folder title: | 1976 Transfer from the POD to the Smithsonian |
Date: | 09/09/1975 |
Description: | Postal Service Philatelic Exhibition contemplated to be transferred to the Smithsonian Institution. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Memorandums ; Forms |
Folder number: | 03-01-15 |
Subject(s): | Exhibitions ; Smithsonian Institution |
Folder title: | 2/25-28/69 Story on AMF's - Chicago, Network, K..C. |
Date: | 03/07/1960 |
Description: | Material concerning the future and viability of airport Mail Facilities and a copy the Methods Handbook for Transfer Clerks Airport Mail Facilities. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Memorandums |
Folder number: | 02-06-14 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Air mail service ; Post Office Stations & Branches |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | 2nd and 3rd Class Mail. |
Date: | 12/01/1965 |
Description: | Complete direction for wrapping and mailing items to be sent Second and Third Class mail. POD Publication 21. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Manuals |
Folder number: | 06-04-19 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | 75.5-1 Envelopes, Letter Sheet V-Mail 1942 |
Date: | 02/10/1942 |
Description: | Correspondence pertaining to the inception, use and inquires about V - mail. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Photographs ; Correspondence |
Folder number: | 01-02-05 |
Subject(s): | Army Postal Service ; APO ; V Mail ; Airmail ; Air mail service ; V - Mail |
Original source: | Post Office Department War Department |
Folder title: | 93 Guam |
Date: | 01/26/1931 |
Description: | Correspondence relating to mail service on Guam both before and after WWII.. Letter concerning establishment of Guam Guard Mail. Letter stating that mail service was reauthorized for Guam on 12/1/1944. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Articles |
Folder number: | 06-05-51 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Mail Service |
Folder title: | A New Perforation Machine |
Description: | Announcement of a new perforation machine. Photograph of the machine. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Product Announcements ; Photographs |
Folder number: | 01-01-06 |
Subject(s): | Automation ; Postal Service - Equipment and Supplies |
Original source: | Miller Engineering Company |
Folder title: | A.P.O.'s (Selling of Commemoratives Overseas) F.P.O.'s U. S. Embassies and Consular Offices Abroad |
Date: | 06/21/1958 |
Description: | Army, Air Force and Fleet Post Offices may sell commemoratives to military personnel, but not the general public. State Department facilities will not sell United States stamps. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Press Releases ; Correspondence |
Folder number: | 03-02-36 |
Subject(s): | United States Army - Postal Service ; United States Navy - Postal Service ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
Folder title: | Abbott, Lyman "Postal Telegraphy" The Arena No. 74 |
Date: | 01/01/1896 |
Description: | Article making the telegraph service as part of the postal service. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Articles |
Folder number: | 06-04-26 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Electronic Mail Service |
Original source: | The Arena |
Folder title: | Accident Reporting Information |
Date: | 10/01/1954 |
Description: | Material dealing with the issue of accidents and reporting of information of an accident. Order form for more Gulf Credit cards for the Pony Express Caravan. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Guides ; Lists ; Bulletins ; Forms |
Folder number: | 02-04-14 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Employees |
Folder title: | Afghanistan |
Date: | 08/29/1958 |
Description: | Discussion of Postal Regulations in Afghanistan. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Articles |
Folder number: | 05-03-28 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Foreign |
Original source: | Bakhtar News Bulletin |
Folder title: | Air Mail - "Flying Post Office Experiment Horrt Lived" |
Date: | 10/06/1986 |
Description: | Linn's Stamp News article about the experiment of processing mail in flight. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Articles |
Folder number: | 06-05-55 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Air Mail ; Air mail service |
Folder title: | Air Mail and Air Taxi (Misc.) |
Date: | 05/11/1967 |
Description: | The accident rate of the air taxi used by the Post Office Department for the distribution of mail. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Memorandums ; Correspondence |
Folder number: | 02-01-27 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Air Mail |
Folder title: | Air Taxi Mail Service |
Date: | 01/01/1968 |
Description: | A 1966 - 1967 - 1968 graph of Air Taxi Mail Service volume and a map of new air network for Wyoming mail. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Graphs ; Maps |
Folder number: | 03-01-06 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Air Mail ; Air Routes |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Air Taxi Mail Service - Now |
Description: | Map of the U.S. Showing locations of associate offices and sectional centers of Air Taxi Mail Service-Now. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Maps |
Folder number: | 03-01-03 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Air Mail ; Air Routes |
Folder title: | Air Taxi Service - End 1966 |
Date: | 01/01/1966 |
Description: | Map of the U.S. showing locations of associate offices and sectional centers of Air Taxi Mail Service at the end of 1966. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Maps |
Folder number: | 03-01-04 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Air Mail ; Air Routes |
Folder title: | AP News Releases - 02.03.87 - 05.06.87 |
Date: | 02/03/1987 |
Description: | Discussion of Postal Union increases in wages, lost mail now found and being delivered as well as the debate on President's Jackson's birthplace etc. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Wire Service Messages |
Folder number: | 05-06-18 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service |
Original source: | AP Wire Service |
Folder title: | APMG, R and E - Bio. |
Date: | 06/26/1969 |
Description: | Press release announcing the appointment of Harold F. Faughd as the Assistant Postmaster for Research and Engineering. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Press Releases ; Photographs |
Folder number: | 02-02-39 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Employees. ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Arizona |
Date: | 05/01/1942 |
Description: | Brief history of Arizona with emphasis on Tubac, Arizona |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Articles |
Folder number: | 06-05-16 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service |
Original source: | Postmaster Gazette |
Folder title: | Arkansas |
Date: | 09/20/1962 |
Description: | Martha Fouty was the first woman mail carrier. She lived in Palarm, Arkansas. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Articles |
Folder number: | 05-07-23 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Persons ; Postal Service - Employees |
Original source: | Cleveland Press |
Folder title: | Articles on Jethro Butcher |
Date: | 06/21/1969 |
Description: | Issues concerning the role and duties of Mr. Jethro Butcher, who is a butler for Postmaster General William Blount. (Tax-payers are paying his $6, 321 a year salary. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Articles ; Memorandums |
Folder number: | 01-07-30 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Employees ; Persons ; Postal Service - Law and Legislation |
Folder title: | Associated Press Reports |
Date: | 06/04/1984 |
Description: | Boycott of summer Olympics by Russia and the exclusion of Israel from the UPU meeting. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Wire Service Messages |
Folder number: | 05-06-07 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Foreign |
Original source: | Associated Press |
Folder title: | Badges, RMS 1899- |
Date: | 05/01/1911 |
Description: | Photocopies of ads for uniforms, equipment, and badges for letter carriers. Also included are photocopies of badges for rural route carriers. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Advertisements |
Folder number: | 05-06-30 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Employees |
Folder title: | Bills Introduced in Congress |
Date: | 04/28/1965 |
Description: | Copies of bills introduced into the House of Representatives from 1965 to 1971. A list enclosed of the bills for 1964 and 1965. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Legislation ; Correspondence |
Folder number: | 03-03-07 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Law and Legislation |
Original source: | Congress |
Folder title: | Bio's Trans & Inspection |
Date: | 05/27/1969 |
Description: | Information on postal employees: Elizabeth M. Fielding, Anthony Cox, William Catter, James V.P. Conway. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Press Releases |
Folder number: | 02-02-38 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Postal Service - Employees |
Folder title: | Black Blot File Also Errors Day and P.C.Z. Papers |
Date: | 11/27/1962 |
Description: | Strict rules and regulations on the quality of printing postage stamps. Concerns the Canal Zone Missing Bridge error stamp and the Dig Hammarskjöld stamp invert. H. E. Harris Co. press release with information on court ruling in their favor. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Press Releases ; Legislation ; Articles |
Folder number: | 03-03-12 |
Subject(s): | Postage Stamps ; Public Relations - Press Releases ; Postal Service - Law and Regulation |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Blue Print - R.F.D. Letter Boxes; P.O.D. Vending Machine |
Date: | 06/01/1915 |
Description: | Blue prints from the Receiving and Forwarding Department, regarding boxes and vending machines. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Photographs ; Brochures ; Blueprints |
Folder number: | 06-04-28 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Brussel's Exhibiton |
Date: | 07/03/1958 |
Description: | Brussels World Fair display by the Post Office Department. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Photographs ; Postal Service News |
Folder number: | 05-03-35 |
Subject(s): | Exhibitions |
Folder title: | Burr's U. S. Atlas (1839) |
Date: | 07/10/1839 |
Description: | The American Atlas, Exhibiting the Post Offices, Post Roads, Rail routes, Canals, and the Physical & Political Divisions of the United States. Parts from a book. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Excerpts |
Folder number: | 05-03-09 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service |
Original source: | Burr Atlas |
Folder title: | Canal Zone - 50th Anniversary Cancellations 1953 |
Date: | 10/16/1953 |
Description: | Correspondence regarding the use of a special cancellation to mark the 50th Anniversary of the Canal Zone Postal Service beginning 11/02/1953 through 11/30/1953.. Sample cancellation. Machine copies of various examples of metered mail |
Collection: | Panama |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Press Releases |
Folder number: | 30-03-071 |
Subject(s): | Metered Mail |
Folder title: | Canal Zone - Dixiepex III 25 June 1960 |
Date: | 03/23/1960 |
Description: | Information concerning the Canal Zone Postal Service participation in Dixiepex III. Machine copies of covers and cancellations. |
Collection: | Panama |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Articles ; Press Releases |
Folder number: | 30-04-002 |
Subject(s): | Philately ; Cancellations ; Exhibitions |
Folder title: | Canal Zone - Money Orders Folder Z |
Date: | 02/17/1967 |
Description: | Correspondence regarding the printing of money order forms. Memorandum regarding the destruction of obsolete money order forms. |
Collection: | Panama |
Includes: | Memorandums ; Correspondence |
Folder number: | 30-03-133 |
Subject(s): | Administration ; Money Oder |
Folder title: | Canal Zone - Money Orders Punched Card System Effective 1 July 1952 Folder #1 |
Date: | 11/12/1950 |
Description: | Regulations, forms, samples and procedures for implementing the punch card money order system on 07/01/1951. Machine copies of money order forms. |
Collection: | Panama |
Includes: | Circulars ; Memorandums ; Manuals |
Folder number: | 30-03-130 |
Subject(s): | Administration ; Money Order |
Folder title: | Canal Zone - Money Orders Punched Card System Effective Folder #2 |
Date: | 06/16/1975 |
Description: | Correspondence concerning the implementation of the new key punch money order system. Machine copies of money order forms. United State Postal Service Bulletin Special Issue 04/11/1973. |
Collection: | Panama |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Bulletins |
Folder number: | 30-03-131 |
Subject(s): | Administration ; Money Order |
Folder title: | Canal Zone - Transparancies Hawaii Statehood Stamps Photos |
Date: | 04/11/1960 |
Description: | Request for 35mm kodachrome transparancies of each postage stamp, envelope and postal card used and/or issued by the Canal Zone Postal Service. Machine copies of photographs of presentation of a set of transparancies to the Canal Zone Library. |
Collection: | Panama |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Memorandums |
Folder number: | 30-03-143 |
Folder title: | Canal Zone Army Postal Service History Panama Canal Department World War II |
Date: | 03/07/1936 |
Description: | Material regarding the U. S. Army Postal Service in the Canal Zone. Correspondence between the Governor and the Command General. Copy of the U. S. Army Circular 380-3, Military Security. Procedures to obtain telephone service from the U. S. Army Signal Corps. Typewritten copy of "History of The Army Postal Services Panama Canal Department". |
Collection: | Panama |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Circulars ; Memorandums |
Folder number: | 30-03-127 |
Subject(s): | World War II ; Mail Service ; United States Army - Postal Service |
Folder title: | Canal Zone Misc Metered Mattered |
Description: | Accession Receipts and machine copies of Canal Zone meters. |
Collection: | Panama |
Includes: | Receipts |
Folder number: | 30-04-004 |
Subject(s): | Postal service ; Metered mail |
Folder title: | Canal Zone Money Orders - Punched Card System Folder #3 |
Date: | 04/14,1952 |
Description: | Correspondence concerning the administration of the money order system including development of instructions to post masters. Machine copies of money order forms. Copy of the specifications for printing money order forms. Copy of "the Common Machine Language for Mechanized Check Handling". |
Collection: | Panama |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Manuals ; Instructional Letters |
Folder number: | 30-03-132 |
Subject(s): | Administration ; Money Order |
Folder title: | Canal Zone Photographs, Canal Zone History |
Description: | Machine copies of Canal Zone photographs. Originals in the Smithsonian Postal Museum Library Photograph file. |
Collection: | Panama |
Includes: | Photocopies |
Folder number: | 30-03-134 |
Subject(s): | Panama Canal ; History |
Folder title: | Canal Zone Stamp Folder Examples |
Description: | Black stamp folders in three sizes, Canal Zone Postal Service printed in gold on cover. |
Collection: | Panama |
Includes: | Folders |
Folder number: | 30-03-140 |
Subject(s): | Philately |
Folder title: | Canal Zone Transfer of Mail Trucks, Transfer of CZ Postal Service to USPOD |
Date: | 01/03/1960 |
Description: | Memoranda concerning the brochure "Canal Zone Postal Service and Postage Stamps" including new typewritten material for Supplement 1 covering stamps issued subsequent to 01/01/1960. Various memoranda concerning the issue of new stamps and the revaluation of postal stationery. Separate included folder with the 1973/1974 Operating Budget Estimate including the transfer of mail trucks to the Mail Transporation Division and the Canal Zone Postal Service to the U. S. Postal Service. |
Collection: | Panama |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Memorandums |
Folder number: | 30-03-141 |
Subject(s): | Postal Stationery ; Vehicles ; Stamps |
Folder title: | Canan Zone - 50th Anniversary Cancellation 1954. |
Date: | 05/20/1954 |
Description: | Correspondence regarding the use of a special cancellation to mark the 50th Anniversary of the Canal Zone Postal Service to be used beginning 06/24/1954. Newspaper clipping and press release. Cancellation specimens on blank cards and a photocopy of a cover and letter dated 06/24/1904. |
Collection: | Panama |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Articles ; Press Releases |
Folder number: | 30-03-070 |
Subject(s): | Press Releases |
Folder title: | Censorship |
Date: | 01/01/1967 |
Description: | Collected materials on 1967 Rate - Pay Law, topic include: Prohibitions, Solicitations, Public Service Advertising, Change of Address and Publication in the Performing Arts. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Fact Sheets |
Folder number: | 01-02-19 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Law and legislation ; Postal Rates. |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | China |
Date: | 01/01/1965 |
Description: | The history of the post in China. Parts from a book |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Excerpts |
Folder number: | 05-03-29 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Foreign |
Folder title: | Christmas - 1967 |
Date: | 09/19/1967 |
Description: | Postal issues for Christmas 1967. Releases include an approximate total of mail handled during the holiday season 9.7 billion pieces. A report of his tour from the Washington D.C. Post Office. Dealing with the fire at post office annex in New York City and harsh weather that has been a factor in some parts of the country causing "slow" delivery of the mail. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Bulletins ; Memorandums ; Information Sheets |
Folder number: | 02-03-03 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Christmas - 1968 |
Date: | 10/15/1968 |
Description: | Reports concerning post office issues during the Christmas season of 1968. The final report covers areas of Mail Volume, Manpower, Productivity, Logistics, Pacific Military Mail, Letter Mail, City Delivery. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Reports ; Guides ; Brochures ; Memorandums |
Folder number: | 02-03-04 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Christmas Rush |
Date: | 01/01/1967 |
Description: | A typed copy of a radio Public Service Announcement (PSA) to use during the Christmas rush of 1967. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Public Service Announcements |
Folder number: | 01-02-33 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Public Relations - Customer Relations |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Civil War postal History |
Date: | 01/01/1960 |
Description: | A research paper pertaining to mail delivery to the US. Navy during the US. Civil War 1861 - 1865 |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Research Papers |
Folder number: | 01-02-14 |
Subject(s): | History - Postal ; United States Navy - Postal Service ; Postal Service |
Folder title: | Clippings from Scientific American 1954 (photocopies) |
Date: | 12/17/1853 |
Description: | Photocopies of articles printed in the Scientific American dealing with matters of postage, postal services and correspondence. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Articles |
Folder number: | 05-06-26 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; History - Postal |
Original source: | Scientific American |
Folder title: | Consolidated Itineraries Birm., Atl., Montg., Ft. Worth, Houston |
Date: | 04/24/1969 |
Description: | Checklist for materials needed for Donald Campbell's trips. Copies of itineraries from04/04/1969 through 05/06/1969 from Birmingham, Montgomery Alabama to Dallas - Fort Worth Texas. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Memorandums ; Checklists ; Itineraries |
Folder number: | 02-02-42 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Employees ; Persons |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Containerization |
Date: | 09/30/1965 |
Description: | Material related to the first containerized mail shipment from Chicago to London. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Press Releases ; Photographs |
Folder number: | 02-07-09 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | CZ - Money Orders Folder 1 |
Date: | 02/04/1972 |
Description: | Correspondence and memoranda regarding the design, issue and use of postal money orders. Last item is from the Unites States Postal Service agreeing to honor Canal Zone money orders on a reimbursable basis after "Entry into Force of the Panama Canal Treaty" on 10/01/1979. |
Collection: | Panama |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Memorandums |
Folder number: | 30-04-007 |
Folder title: | CZ 148 |
Date: | 06/12/1957 |
Description: | Correspondence regarding the printing and issue of Canal Zone 148. Commemorative Service program with a photograph of the hospital that was used for the program. Canal Zone Postal Service Circular No. 1145, providing directions for the handling of first day of issue covers. Machine copies of cancellations. Newspaper clippings and articles concerning this stamp. |
Collection: | Panama |
Scott Number(s): | Panama Canal Zone 148 |
Includes: | Photographs ; Brochures ; Circulars ; Correspondence |
Folder number: | 30-03-020 |
Subject(s): | Design ; Bureau of Engraving and Printing ; First Day of Issue |
Folder title: | CZ OX3, OX5 |
Date: | 04/08/1941 |
Description: | Memorandum from the Director of Posts advising all post masters of the stamps that have been overprinted for official use. Machine copies of Official Seals showing both the new and old designs. Design changed because the old seal used the term "Bureau of Posts" which was changed to "Canal Zone Postal Service". |
Collection: | Panama |
Scott Number(s): | Panama Canal Zone OX3 ; Panama Canal Zone OX5 |
Includes: | Memorandums |
Folder number: | 30-03-080 |
Subject(s): | Overprints ; Official Seals ; Official Stamps |
Folder title: | Deep Freeze |
Date: | 08/02/1957 |
Description: | Material regarding First Day Covers during the U. S. Navy's Operation Deep Freeze in Antarctica as a Department of Defense Project. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Press Releases ; Articles |
Folder number: | 03-06-11 |
Subject(s): | Covers (Philately) ; Public Relations - Press Releases ; United States Navy - Postal Service |
Folder title: | Deep Freeze |
Date: | 09/12/1956 |
Description: | Correspondence between the Post Office Department and individuals on philatelic matters concerning Operation Deep Freeze. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence |
Folder number: | 03-06-13 |
Subject(s): | Covers (Philately) ; United States Navy - Postal Service |
Folder title: | Deep Freeze 1969 - 1970 |
Date: | 01/01/1969 |
Description: | Operation Deep Freeze press releases regarding First Day Covers during the United States Navy's Operation Deep Freeze in Antarctica as a Department of Defense Project. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Press Releases |
Folder number: | 03-06-12 |
Subject(s): | Covers (Philately) ; Public Relations - Press Releases ; United States Navy - Postal Service |
Original source: | United States Naval Support Force |
Folder title: | Dog Bite |
Date: | 05/01/1997 |
Description: | A booklet advising how to prevent dog bites. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Pamphlets |
Folder number: | 04-07-11 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Employees |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Domestic Lettergram Service |
Date: | 04/13/1964 |
Description: | A survey and study conducted on two types of domestic lettergrams - with and without enclosures. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Research ; Memorandums |
Folder number: | 03-03-10 |
Subject(s): | Postal Stationery ; Postal Service |
Original source: | Elrick and Lavedge Inc. |
Folder title: | Driver Training - Mailsters. Instructor's Guide, POD Publication 72, Aug. 1966 |
Date: | 05/01/1957 - 08/01/1966 |
Description: | Instructor's Guide for Mailster driver training and articles about postal displays. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Articles ; Manuals |
Folder number: | 05-06-19 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Transportation |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | ECOM |
Date: | 06/05/1984 |
Description: | Board of Governors of the Postal Service voted to "get out of the computer mail business." |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Wire Service Messages |
Folder number: | 05-06-31 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Electronic Mail Service |
Original source: | AP Wire Service |
Folder title: | Equipment and Supplies |
Date: | 08/27/1872 |
Description: | Instructions and suggestions regarding operation of equipment and supplies. Patent Office folder about the invention and patent of balloon-locomotive in 1872. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Memorandums ; Brochures |
Folder number: | 03-04-14 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Equipment and Supplies ; Patents ; Balloon Post |
Folder title: | European Postal Service - L. O'Brien |
Date: | 12/14/1966 |
Description: | Public release of the Postmaster General's report on his trip to observe European postal systems. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Press Releases |
Folder number: | 02-06-04 |
Subject(s): | Public Relations (Press Releases) ; Postal Service |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Field Philatelic Training Seminar: The Complete Guide for Region Coordinators |
Description: | A copy of a training seminar guide: topics include postal history, philatelic workshop and a retail merchandising campaign. Three ring binder. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Training Guides |
Folder number: | 06-06-01 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service Guides |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Finance Minneapolis Project. 3.1.12 |
Date: | 11/21/1962 |
Description: | Information pertaining to new computers in Atlanta, a prototype postal system operation Minneapolis test., data processing centers, consolidations Seattle to San Francisco, Memphis to St. Louis, Wichita to Dallas, and Chicago to -Minneapolis. New high speed computers in Atlanta, Georgia. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Press Releases ; Publications |
Folder number: | 01-07-11 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Automation ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Finance - NAPS - Atlantic City, N. J. 6/6/64 |
Date: | 06/07/1964 |
Description: | Material concerning the National Association of Postal Supervisors. The speech deals with various aspects of the current state of affairs within the Post Office Department, including a pay raise at the suggestion of President Johnson. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Itineraries ; Speeches ; Articles ; Correspondence |
Folder number: | 01-07-17 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Employees ; Speeches ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Finance Third Cl. Advertising 1962-63-64 |
Date: | 10/04/1961 |
Description: | Materials on the banning of very small and odd shaped letters as well as various aspects of the cost effectiveness of third class mail. Making the mail safer for children to handle: sample razor blades, chlorine bleach powders, that resemble candy etc. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Press Releases ; Articles |
Folder number: | 02-03-33 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
Original source: | Post Office Department Wall Street Journal |
Folder title: | Finance 1 Gen. Correspondence 1967 |
Date: | 08/16/1966 |
Description: | Correspondence includes the following: Postal Rates, Current Developments, and Revenue. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Reports ; Memorandums ; Correspondence |
Folder number: | 02-03-24 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Postal Rates ; Administration |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Finance 11 International Rates |
Date: | 05/20/1961 |
Description: | Material on International postal rates: weight and rate ratios, military mail service, briefing on Postal Rate Bill, International Mail Rate Report. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Press Releases ; Memorandums ; Correspondence |
Folder number: | 02-03-28 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Postal Rates ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Finance 16 Postal Rate Increase 1967 |
Description: | Articles, Press Releases, Congressional correspondence and notes concerning the postal rate increase. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Memorandums ; Correspondence |
Folder number: | 02-03-29 |
Subject(s): | Postal Rates ; Postal Service - Law and Legislation ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
Folder title: | Finance 6 Biographies & Pic. Mr. Nicholson |
Date: | 12/06/1965 |
Description: | Biographical information about Assistant Post Master General, Bureau of Finance: An invitation celebrating the Mr. Nicholson's Ben Franklin Award |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Photographs ; Information Sheets ; Biographies |
Folder number: | 02-03-26 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Employees ; Persons ; Postal Service - Postmasters |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Finance 7 Bureau of Budget Reports & Senate Hearings |
Date: | 04/18/1967 |
Description: | The Post Office Department's position on the following: First Class Mail, Air mail, 2nd Class, U.S. Post Office Department Appropriation request to Senate fiscal year 1967. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Memorandums ; Correspondence ; Reports ; Statements |
Folder number: | 02-03-27 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Law and Legislation ; |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Finance Budget 1963-1964-1965 |
Date: | 01/28/1963 |
Description: | Financial information on the Post Office Department: Digest of the Congressional record 01/21/1964, Comptroller General of the United States, 1966 budget preparation. Excerpts from the House Appropriations Committee. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Congressional Records ; Financial Data |
Folder number: | 02-03-32 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Law and Legislation ; Administration |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Finance Mackinac Island, Mich. 6/1/64 |
Date: | 06/01/1964 |
Description: | Materials pertaining to National league of Postmasters In Mackinac, Michigan: A speech made by Ralph W. Nicholson. The speech deals with various aspects of the current state of affairs within the Post Office Department, including a pay raise at the suggestion of President Johnson. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Speeches |
Folder number: | 01-07-15 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Post Masters ; Postal Service - Employees ; Speeches |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Finance NAPUS - Boise, Idaho 6/18/64 |
Date: | 06/18/1964 |
Description: | Material concerning the National Association of Postmasters in Boise, Idaho. The speech deals with various aspects of the current state of affairs within the Post Office Department, including a pay raise at the suggestion of President Johnson. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Articles ; Speeches ; Correspondence |
Folder number: | 01-07-16 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Post Masters ; Postal Service - Employees ; Speeches |
Original source: | Post Office Department Idaho Daily Statesman |
Folder title: | Finance NIMS St. Louis - K.C. July 1961 |
Date: | 07/12/1961 |
Description: | Material for the finances and other aspects of the Nationwide Improved Mail Service (NIMS) program held in St.Louis and Kansas City, Missouri 1961 |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Memorandums ; Correspondence ; Speeches |
Folder number: | 02-03-23 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Administration ; Speeches |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Finance Springfield, Ill. 3/9/64 |
Date: | 04/26/1962 |
Description: | This file contains a memorandum from 1964, about the problem of dog bites; an endorsement for a pay raise for postal employees and remarks by John A. Gronouski dedication of the New York World's Fair Post Office. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Itineraries ; Speeches ; Press Releases |
Folder number: | 01-07-13 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Postal Service - Employees ; Public Relations - Customer Relations |
Folder title: | First Day Cover Kit |
Date: | 09/17/1958 |
Description: | First Day Cover Kit sent to the Acting Directof of Post, Canal Zone Postal Service with cover letter. |
Collection: | Panama |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Articles ; Speeches |
Folder number: | 30-03-119 |
Subject(s): | Covers ; Speech |
Folder title: | Foreign Postal Issues |
Date: | 09/23/1963 |
Description: | Several copies of an information sheet listing known foreign postal services with a philatelic sales agency and providing information that stamps mailed through the postal system are merchandise. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Information Sheets |
Folder number: | 02-05-22 |
Subject(s): | Stamp Collecting (Philately) |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Franklin Award |
Date: | 12/31/1960 |
Description: | Benjamin Franklin award for outstanding contribution to the postal service by non-career postal officials. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Press Releases ; Memorandums |
Folder number: | 02-01-31 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Employees ; Public Relations - Press Releases ; Administration |
Folder title: | G. C. Cornwell - Western Union 1967 Descending Revenues - 1st CL. |
Date: | 01/03/1969 |
Description: | A list of descending revenues in cities across the country. Top 10 cities: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Boston, San Francisco, Detroit, Washington D.C., St. Louis. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Lists |
Folder number: | 02-02-34 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Administration |
Folder title: | Gen. Counsel 1 General Correspondence 1961-67 |
Date: | 04/29/1961 |
Description: | Miscellaneous correspondence of the General Counsel for the Post Office Department. Some examples include: A biographical sketch of Tim James May, request for the copy of the 1918 report of the Postmaster General. Legislative highlights, franking, "Taper" bill, Itineraries. proposal for story in Machinist Magazine. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Biographies ; Correspondence |
Folder number: | 02-03-12 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Employees |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | General Counsel |
Date: | 09/01/1954 |
Description: | Correspondence and material pertaining to the law and legal issues concerning the Post Office Department. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Memorandums |
Folder number: | 02-01-09 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Law and Legislation ; Covers ; Postage Stamps |
Folder title: | German P. O. Hist. |
Date: | 01/01/1959 |
Description: | German postal history by horse, by wagon by foot. Parts from a book. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Excerpts |
Folder number: | 05-03-16 |
Subject(s): | History - Postal ; Postal Service - Foreign |
Original source: | Zu Pferde, em Wagen, zu Fuss Tailsend Jabre Reisen |
Folder title: | Giori Press |
Date: | 01/01/1958 |
Description: | The use of the new Giori printing press in the production of multi-colored postage stamps. The intaglio printing press produces multi-colored postage stamps from a single engraved plate. Copies of the Postal Service News, Volume 1, Number 1, January, 1958 with an article about the Giori Press. Copy of the Weekly Philatelic Gossip, Volume 70, Number 6, April, 2, 1960 with an article about plate number collecting. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Articles |
Folder number: | 05-05-15 |
Subject(s): | Postage Stamps Printing |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Gov't Printing Office and Supt. of Documents |
Date: | 12/11/1953 |
Description: | Correspondence between the Post Office Department and the public on printed matter ordered and not received or received damaged. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence |
Folder number: | 02-01-06 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service |
Folder title: | History of U.S. Stamps |
Date: | 01/10/1908 |
Description: | Material on the history of the United States Postal Service and of United States Postage Stamps. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Press Releases ; Articles |
Folder number: | 04-02-03 |
Subject(s): | History - Postal ; Postage Stamps ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
Folder title: | Hope Diamond Wrapper |
Date: | 11/21/1958 |
Description: | U.S. News and World Report page of photo of diamond and listing of mailing cost. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Articles |
Folder number: | 03-03-18 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Smithsonian Institution |
Original source: | U.S. News and World Report |
Folder title: | HPO and RPO Covers |
Date: | 07/07/1960 |
Description: | Correspondence on the last and first day cancellations of Highway Post Offices and Railroad Mail Service. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence |
Folder number: | 03-04-13 |
Subject(s): | Highway Postal Service ; Railroad Mail Service |
Folder title: | Importation of Postage Stamps |
Date: | 03/09/1962 |
Description: | The Treasury Department, foreign assets control, regulates the importation of postage stamps. Letters requesting information regarding various countries. Layout for stamp collecting for children. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Layouts |
Folder number: | 03-03-09 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Law and Legislation ; Stamp Collecting (Philatelty) ; Stamp Collecting |
Folder title: | Index of Postal Patents |
Date: | 01/01/1851 - 01/01/1913 |
Description: | Patent number, name of person, and kind of item that was developed to improve postal service. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Lists |
Folder number: | 05-06-33 |
Subject(s): | Postage Stamps ; Cancelling Machines ; Postage Stamp Printing |
Original source: | Postal Patents of the U.S.A. |
Folder title: | Infor. Requirements Classes & Subclasses Mail |
Date: | 11/02/1972 |
Description: | Information requirements relating to classes and subclasses of mail and service performance. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Reports |
Folder number: | 02-05-10 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Inter - Office Memos 3.1.7 |
Date: | 04/13/1961 |
Description: | Memoranda among post office staff, dealing with a wide range of topics. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Memorandums |
Folder number: | 01-07-06 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | International Mail |
Date: | 04/01/1948 |
Description: | A brochure on International Mail, POD Publication 51, 12/01/1963: A Brief History of the Development of the International Postal Service; International Mail, from the office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Brochures |
Folder number: | 01-02-35 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Foreign |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Int'l 1 International Mail (General) |
Date: | 06/14/1966 |
Description: | Correspondence to and from the international postal community regarding items of mutual interest. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Memorandums |
Folder number: | 02-06-16 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Foreign ; Administration |
Folder title: | Int'l - Document 25 |
Date: | 04/17/1968 |
Description: | Agenda for the December 25, 1968 meeting of the Universal Postal Union Executive Committee. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Memorandums ; Press Releases |
Folder number: | 02-06-25 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Foreign |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Int'l 10 Canadian Postal Strike |
Date: | 08/01/1968 |
Description: | Material on the Canadian postal workers strike and the effect on United States mail service. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Memorandums ; Telegrams ; Press Releases |
Folder number: | 02-06-24 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Foreign ; Postal Service - Strikes and Lockouts ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Int'l 3 International Postal Organ. |
Date: | 02/20/1969 |
Description: | Material relating to meetings with the international postal community. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Memorandums ; Press Releases |
Folder number: | 02-06-18 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Foreign ; Administration ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Int'l 5 International Rates |
Date: | 08/08/1967 |
Description: | Material concerning postal rates to Canada and other countries. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Press Releases |
Folder number: | 02-06-19 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Foreign ; Postal Rates ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Int'l 6 International Foreign Exchange Program |
Date: | 01/03/1968 |
Description: | Material concerning the exchange of postal personnel between countries. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Press Releases |
Folder number: | 02-06-20 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Foreign ; Postal Service - Employees ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Int'l 7 International Training Program |
Date: | 10/25/1966 |
Description: | Material on training for foreign visitors. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Memorandums |
Folder number: | 02-06-21 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Foreign |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Intl' 8 Mail to Poland |
Date: | 02/20/1968 |
Description: | Correspondence dealing with problems in delivering parcels to Poland. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Memorandums |
Folder number: | 02-06-22 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Foreign |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Int'l 9 Mail to Cuba |
Date: | 01/11/1968 |
Description: | Material relating to problems with mail service to Cuba. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Memorandums ; Articles |
Folder number: | 02-06-23 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Foreign ; Mail Service |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Int'l Appointment Announ's, Release, Etc - Walter Sheble |
Date: | 08/06/1966 |
Description: | Information on the appointment of Walter Sheble as Special Assistant for International Postal Organizations. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Press Releases |
Folder number: | 02-06-15 |
Subject(s): | Public Relations (Press Releases) ; Persons ; Postal Service - Foreign |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Int'l Visits to Foreign Countries - 1968 |
Date: | 09/13/1968 |
Description: | Information about an official visit to a mail processing facility in Moscow, USSR and letters relating to the expected Christmas rush of mail to military personnel in Vietnam. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Memorandums |
Folder number: | 02-06-17 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Foreign ; Administration |
Folder title: | Japan |
Date: | 04/29/1963 |
Description: | Discussion of the Postal Service in Japan from the beginning of the service to the present (1963). |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Articles |
Folder number: | 05-03-17 |
Subject(s): | History - Postal ; Postal Service - Foreign |
Folder title: | June 11, 1969 - PMG Blount Radion Tape - Cong. Thompson |
Date: | 04/18/1969 |
Description: | A letter requesting the interview and confirmation letters for the interview between Postmaster Winton M. Blount and Congressman Fletcher Thompson (D-GA) . A series of photographs from the radio taping. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Photographs ; Correspondence |
Folder number: | 02-02-44 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Postmasters |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Labor Relations/Conditions POD |
Date: | 04/03/1900 |
Description: | A letter explaining why black postal employees from Union Station are protesting. A letter from the Chicago Post Office asking about the government's policy of an eight hour work day. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Fact Sheets |
Folder number: | 01-02-36 |
Subject(s): | Postal Employees ; Collective labor agreements-Postal service |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Labor, Pay and Benefits 1967/68 |
Date: | 12/19/1967 |
Description: | Materials pertaining to postal employee's salaries in 1967 - 1968. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Press Releases ; Memorandums ; Fact Sheets |
Folder number: | 01-02-37 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Employees ; Administration ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Latin American Mails - Pre Columbian - Modern |
Description: | Handwritten, translated from Spanish - The Origin of Postal Service in America. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Articles |
Folder number: | 05-03-11 |
Subject(s): | History - Postal |
Folder title: | Laws - On Stamps |
Date: | 10/03/1960 |
Description: | Press Release announcing that the stamp illustration law has been amended to permit reproduction in color under certain conditions. Several copies of articles with illustrations in color. Copy of the Treasury Department, United States Secret Service policy on use of illustrations and films of paper money postage and revenue stamps, checks, bonds and other obligations of the United States an foreign governments. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Articles ; Press Releases ; Memorandums |
Folder number: | 05-01-27 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Law and Legislation ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
Folder title: | Laws and Reg. - Postage Stamps |
Date: | 05/01/1959 |
Description: | Correspondence concerning the legality of certain transactions. Copy of the Postal Agreement between the Post Office Department and the Department of Defense 1959 |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Publications |
Folder number: | 02-05-24 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Law and Legislation ; Postage Stamps |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Legislation |
Date: | 12/9/1889 |
Description: | Copies from the 51st and 85th congressional sessions pertaining Post Office Department legislation. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Legislation |
Folder number: | 01-02-38 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Law and Legislation |
Original source: | United States Congress |
Folder title: | Liechtenstein |
Date: | 10/02/1966 |
Description: | Discussion of business and postal service in the country of Liechtenstein. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Articles |
Folder number: | 05-03-10 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Foreign |
Folder title: | Mail Bags, Pouches, Boxes (For Transit) and Misc, Containers |
Date: | 04/06/1943 |
Description: | Memorandum pertaining to a Post Office delivery box found in storage. The memorandum gives a brief history of the use of the boxes. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Memorandums |
Folder number: | 01-02-29 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service |
Folder title: | Mail Handling and Distribution, General |
Date: | 12/01/1965 |
Description: | A series of brochures and instructional letters about the handling and distribution of mail. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Brochures ; Instructional Letters |
Folder number: | 01-02-27 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Mail Handling Equipment Patents |
Date: | 01/01/1967 |
Description: | A list of patents pertaining to mail equipment: sorters, parcel and letters; sorter parts; sorter card. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Lists |
Folder number: | 01-02-28 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Equipment and Supplies |
Folder title: | Mail Sorting |
Date: | 08/26/1959 |
Description: | This file contains a paper / written statement pertaining to a new type of parcel sorter being developed. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Press Releases |
Folder number: | 01-07-39 |
Subject(s): | Automation ; Postal Service ; Public Relations - Press Release |
Folder title: | Malta |
Date: | 09/01/1964 |
Description: | Discussion of the postal service in Malta from the beginning of the service to the present (1964). |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Articles |
Folder number: | 05-03-18 |
Subject(s): | History - Postal ; Postal Service - Foreign |
Original source: | Union Postale, Vol. 89, No. 9 |
Folder title: | MAP Santa Fe trail |
Date: | 01/01/1908 |
Description: | Map of the Santa Fe Trail through Colorado. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Maps |
Folder number: | 05-03-06 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service |
Original source: | State Engineer Office Denver, Colorado |
Folder title: | MAPS - Highways and Waterways in early U. S. Times |
Date: | 01/01/1796 - 01/01/1860 |
Description: | Maps showing progress of the overland routes throughout the United States. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Maps |
Folder number: | 05-03-07 |
Subject(s): | Postal service |
Folder title: | MAPS - Sectionalism and U. S. Map of 1855 and 1860-61 |
Date: | 01/01/1796 - 01/01/1860 |
Description: | Maps showing progress of the Overland Routes throughout the United States. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Maps |
Folder number: | 05-03-08 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service |
Folder title: | Maryland |
Date: | 01/29/1967 |
Description: | The amount of postal mail delivered in the Baltimore in 1867 and 1868. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Articles |
Folder number: | 05-07-26 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service |
Original source: | Sun Magazine |
Folder title: | Merchandising Committee |
Date: | 04/16/1971 |
Description: | Correspondence Between Gordon Morrison and Warren Yang, Director of Posts, Republic of China on the philatelic market. A business proposal from BIC Pen to provide a slogan pen promoting the collection and sale of United States postage stamps. List of members and confidential minutes of the Merchandising Committee meeting of 04/22/1971. Six untitled photographs showing the interior and exterior of a Canadian Post Office. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Photographs ; Minutes ; Lists |
Folder number: | 02-04-27 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Stamp Collecting (Philately) |
Folder title: | Metered Mail |
Date: | 02/22/1922 |
Description: | Collection of letters from 12/1922 - 1925 of companies using metered mail. The response ranges from positive to terrific. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence |
Folder number: | 04-03-16 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Metered Mail |
Folder title: | Meters |
Date: | 12/15/1967 |
Description: | Collector asking questions about metered mail. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence |
Folder number: | 05-01-33 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Metered Mail |
Folder title: | Meters (Overment, Alfred P.H. - File) |
Date: | 10/06/1898 |
Description: | Discussions about envelopes and use of the meter for postal history. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence |
Folder number: | 03-04-07 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Metered Mail |
Folder title: | Military Mail Service - Civil War, Union Army |
Date: | 01/01/1981 |
Description: | Military mail service during the Civil War for the Union Army. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Articles |
Folder number: | 05-06-32 |
Subject(s): | United States Army - Postal Service ; History - Postal |
Folder title: | Military Transportation 3.1.5 |
Date: | 07/23/1969 |
Description: | A memorandum giving the Post Office Department Staff instructions on how to obtain the use of Air Force aircraft, confidential memorandum from the White House, several copies of certificates of acceptance of liability forms. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Memorandums ; Certification of Liability |
Folder number: | 01-07-05 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Transportation |
Folder title: | Miscellaneous |
Date: | 11/22/1963 |
Description: | Correspondence between Post Office Department and individuals wanting U.S. flags on vehicles, information on Letter Writing Week and Christmas post cards plus Post Office Department list of accomplishments. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Memorandums |
Folder number: | 03-01-09 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service |
Folder title: | Mongolia |
Date: | 10/01/1965 |
Description: | Discussion of the history of the postal service in Mongolia from the beginning until the present (1965). |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Articles |
Folder number: | 05-03-20 |
Subject(s): | History - Postal ; Postal Service - Foreign |
Original source: | Union Postale, Vol. 90, No.10 |
Folder title: | Nat'l Assoc of Letter Carriers |
Date: | 10/17/1963 |
Description: | Cover letter and list of dignitaries who should receive letter carrier stamp albums. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Lists |
Folder number: | 03-03-25 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Employees |
Original source: | President of the National Association of Letter Carriers |
Folder title: | New Appointments - 1969 |
Date: | 03/04/1969 |
Description: | Announcements of new appointments to various positions and their locations. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Press Releases |
Folder number: | 02-02-37 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Employees ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
Folder title: | New Hampshire Lottery |
Date: | 04/30/1963 |
Description: | This file contains information about, the state of New Hampshire adopting of a lottery and its relation to postal laws and regulations. The lottery can only take place within the state of New Hampshire and no tickets can mailed to out of state residents due to Federal regulations. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Articles |
Folder number: | 01-07-28 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Law and Legislation |
Folder title: | New York Mail Steamer |
Date: | 01/01/1937 |
Description: | Information of how the mail steamer service began. Also a discussion about installation of household mail boxes. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Drafts ; Articles |
Folder number: | 05-07-28 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; History - Postal |
Folder title: | New Zealand |
Date: | 07/01/1965 |
Description: | Discussion of the postal service in New Zealand from the beginning of the service to the present (1965). |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Articles |
Folder number: | 05-03-19 |
Subject(s): | History - Postal ; Postal Service - Foreign |
Original source: | Union Postale, Vol. 90, No. 7 |
Folder title: | News Kit Nationwide Improved Mail Service |
Date: | 03/01/1960 |
Description: | Nationwide improved mail service. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Press Releases ; Photographs |
Folder number: | 03-04-02 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | News Kit for Press Conference of P.M.G. Lawrence O'Brien on 5/19/66 |
Date: | 05/19/1966 |
Description: | Press releases to advertise improvement in letter delivery, zip code accessibility, mechanization and air pollution control. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Press Releases ; Photographs |
Folder number: | 03-03-15 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Public Relations - Press Releases ; Automation |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Northern Countries Postal Union (Denmark, Norway, Sweden) |
Date: | 06/01/1964 |
Description: | Discussion of the postal service in Northern Countries - Denmark, Norway and Sweden. These countries have a trilateral postal agreement. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Articles |
Folder number: | 05-03-21 |
Subject(s): | History - Postal ; Postal Service - Foreign |
Original source: | Union Postale, Vol. 89, No.6 |
Folder title: | November 1, 1960 Battle Creek (Speed Mail) |
Date: | 01/26/1960 |
Description: | 1960 speed mail utilizing satellite echo between Washington, Chicago and Battle Creek, Michigan. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Press Releases ; Photographs ; Correspondence |
Folder number: | 03-04-03 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Electronic Mail Service ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Ohio |
Date: | 06/01/1962 |
Description: | Description of mail carried in 1809 from Cleveland to Detroit, by foot, with mail satchel shown. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Brochures |
Folder number: | 05-07-29 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; History - Postal |
Original source: | Historical Society News |
Folder title: | Operations - Metro 3.1.9 |
Date: | 10/31/1958 |
Description: | Materials on operational issues dealing with the following issues: Construction of mechanized post office department in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Methods handbook: Distribution Guides System, A bill from the 86th Congress. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Press Releases ; Maps ; Guidebooks |
Folder number: | 01-07-08 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Administration ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Operations 1 General Correspondence |
Date: | 01/13/1965 |
Description: | "Tagged" Meter Mail, notes from conference meetings, new mailing privileges. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Memorandums |
Folder number: | 02-03-21 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Metered Mail ; Luminescent Postage Stamps |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Operations 3 Texarkana, Texas |
Date: | 05/14/1965 |
Description: | Materials on Texarkana, Texas post office. Specifically related to the effect on postal employees with the termination on the railway mail by the Post Office Department. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Memorandums |
Folder number: | 02-03-22 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Railway Mail Service |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Operations, Bureau Of |
Date: | 05/21/1954 |
Description: | Correspondence between the Post Office Department and the public on a variety of questions and the every day running of the postal service. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Memorandums |
Folder number: | 02-01-10 |
Subject(s): | Administration ; Postal Service |
Folder title: | Overland Mail - Route No. 12578 |
Date: | 03/12/1861 |
Description: | Photocopy of the contract for carrying mail on Route 12578 (which is changed to Route 10773) beginning 07/01/1861. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Contracts |
Folder number: | 05-06-29 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; History - Postal |
Folder title: | P. 1. Assoc. Direct Mail Davit. Assoc. |
Date: | 03/13/1964 |
Description: | Some of the topics covered by the DMAA are the following: the use of the zip code, postal service performance, an agreement between the agency for International Development and the Post Office Department, mail classification and rates. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Press Releases ; Newsletters |
Folder number: | 02-02-06 |
Subject(s): | Postal Rates ; Zip Code |
Folder title: | P. 1. Assoc. Rural Carrier Assoc. |
Date: | 03/20/1965 |
Description: | Speeches by various Postmasters at different conventions. Some of the conventions are: New Orleans, Louisiana, Pittsburgh, PA, Waco Texas. A document written in response to inquires about a proposal to permit the Post Office Department to provide Rural Letter Carriers with government owned or leased automobiles. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Speeches ; Fact Sheets ; Press Releases |
Folder number: | 02-02-09 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Employees ; Public Relations - Press Releases ; Administration |
Original source: | Post Office Department National Rural Letter Carriers Association |
Folder title: | P. 1. Events Special Pony Express Runs, Airline and Rail Runs |
Description: | Correspondence requesting a re-enactment of the Pony Express. Pony Express routes that were requested to re-enacted were: Wausau, Nebraska to Yanton, South Dakota; Wasua, Nebraska to Pierce, Nebraska, Canaan, Indiana to Madison, Dodge to Howelle, Nebraska. Also requests from reporters to board and ride a railway post office. Approval and denial correspondence letters for the above requests are also contained in this file. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Memorandums |
Folder number: | 02-02-10 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Railway Mail Service |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | P. 1. General Corres. - 1966 - PMG O'Brien |
Date: | 01/15/1966 |
Description: | Correspondence to Lawrence F. O'Brien. Letters from Northwest Airlines, Congressman Charles H. Wilson are the most notable. Other letters are in response to visits or announcements made by Mr. O'Brien. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence |
Folder number: | 02-02-46 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Postmasters |
Folder title: | P. 1. History Mailings of Animals |
Date: | 06/29/1962 |
Description: | Guide - rules for mailing live animals, poisons, sharp edges, firearms, perishables, "non-mailable matter" |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Guides |
Folder number: | 02-02-20 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | P. 1. History Misc Pamphlets |
Description: | An Early History of International Postal Service, Zip Code the Last Word in Mail Addressing; How to Interpret New Postal Regulations Effective 01/01/1963; Postmasters Benefit Plan; Brochures on mail fraud; domestic postal rates; mail order obscenity; and, history of postage stamps postal cards and stamped envelopes. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Pamphlets ; Brochures ; Benefit Plans |
Folder number: | 02-02-11 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; History - Postal ; Zip Code |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | P. 1. History Public Info. & POD Terminology |
Date: | 09/01/1964 |
Description: | An employee orientation handbook with glossary from 09/1964. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Orientation Handbooks ; Employee Handbooks |
Folder number: | 02-02-14 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Employees |
Folder title: | P. 1. History Transportation Policies and Methods |
Description: | Material on transportation policies and methods, President Johnson's cost reduction program and the Department's mail service improvement program. Some of the highlights of this publication include topics on Traffic management conferences, Railway Mail, Highway Transportation, Mail Service improvement, Mail equipment transportation, distribution and routing. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Publications |
Folder number: | 02-02-19 |
Subject(s): | Administration ; Postal Service |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | P. 1. Performance Evaluations 67-68 |
Description: | Undated Memorandum listing the duties and responsibilities of public relations employees. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Memorandums |
Folder number: | 02-02-48 |
Subject(s): | Administration ; Postal Service - Employees |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | P.1. Administration Files 1963-1968 |
Description: | Areas of administrative covered in this file are: Transportation (12), Personnel (7), finance (13), public relations (13) Miscellaneous and Operations. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Receipts ; Lists |
Folder number: | 01-07-32 |
Subject(s): | Administration ; Public Relations - Customer Relations ; Postal Service - Employees |
Folder title: | P.1. Assoc. Congressional Record |
Date: | 10/17/1961 |
Description: | Material from the Congressional Record pertaining to postmaster nominations, postmaster revenue received by railroads, removal of President Eisenhower plaques for President Kennedy plaques in post office buildings, adjusting of postal rates. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Congressional Records |
Folder number: | 02-02-05 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Law and Legislation ; Postal Rates ; Administration |
Folder title: | P.1. Assoc. Natal Assoc. of Postmasters |
Date: | 10/22/1961 |
Description: | Addresses to the National Association of Postmasters in Honolulu, Hawaii 10/04/1963. Material from a conference in Denver, Colorado 10/22/61. A brochure entitled League Leadership Guides. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Itineraries ; Brochures ; Speeches |
Folder number: | 02-02-08 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Employees ; Speeches |
Folder title: | P.1. Assoc. Natl. Postal Union |
Date: | 01/17/1964 |
Description: | Newsletters from the National Postal Union: Washington Report, and the Long Beach Broadcaster. Some of the topics discussed are: NPU Elections, Cost of living Allowance, Pay Guides, Pay Raise Issues by Congress and President Johnson. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Lists ; Newsletters ; Publications |
Folder number: | 02-02-07 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Employees |
Folder title: | P.1. Congressional Letters 1967-1968 |
Date: | 05/10/1966 |
Description: | Congressional letters - queries regarding the Post Office Department service of parcels to soldiers in Vietnam and the curtailing of the railway service. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence |
Folder number: | 01-07-23 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Railway Mail Service |
Original source: | Post Office Department Congress |
Folder title: | P.1. Freedom of Information Act |
Date: | 09/11/1967 |
Description: | Material referring to the Freedom of Information Act and how it applies to the Post Office Department. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Memorandums ; Articles |
Folder number: | 01-07-31 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Law and Legislation |
Folder title: | P.1. History Transportation & Photos |
Date: | 08/14/1961 |
Description: | Articles and Press Releases providing historical information on the mail service transportation. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Articles ; Press Releases |
Folder number: | 02-05-25 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Transportation ; Star Routes ; Air Mail Service |
Folder title: | P.1. History Fact Sheets 3.1.25 |
Description: | Materials on postal information fact sheets. Some of the material in this file are Organizational charts, and fiscal year fact sheet from 7/1/1959 to 6/30/1960; 7/1/1961 to 6/30/1965, 7/2/1965 to 6/30/1968; and accomplishments of the Post Office Department 1961 to 1963: Postal rate reform, more efficient mail handling, four hour business mail service, mail service to Alaska, pay reform, better mail law enforcement, |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Reports ; Fact Sheets ; Fiscal Statements |
Folder number: | 01-07-24 |
Subject(s): | Air mail service ; Postal Rates ; Postal Service - Employees |
Folder title: | P.1. History Policy Guides (POD) 3.1.21 |
Date: | 05/23/1961 |
Description: | The policy guideline is a resume of the major post office department policies adopted since the current Postal Administration took office in January of 1961. Some of the major topics include: Obscenity in the mail, Postal rate increase bill, 44 hour week limitations, and code of ethics. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Guides |
Folder number: | 01-07-20 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Law and Legislation ; Postal Rates ; Postal Service - Employees |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | P.1. Memos To and From P.1 Staff 1968 |
Date: | 12/01/1967 |
Description: | Inter-office memoranda to and from the public information staff. Some of the topics covered are the following: National Postal Action Program, removal of politics from postal appointments, regional directors conference 03/22/1968. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Memorandums |
Folder number: | 02-02-04 |
Subject(s): | Public Relations - Business ; Administration ; Postal Service - Employees |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | P.1. Press Interviews 1968 |
Date: | 01/04/1966 |
Description: | Letters and copies of interviews from postal employees to various forms of media. Some examples of interviews are from. Forbes Magazine, Modern Railroad magazine, Industrial Research magazine, Associated Press. A transcript from an interview deals with issues of 3rd class mail. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Copies of Interviews |
Folder number: | 02-02-03 |
Subject(s): | Public Relations - Customer Relations ; Postal Service - Employees |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | P.1. Press Queries 1967 |
Date: | 11/02/1965 |
Description: | Correspondence pertaining to interview requests to the Post Office Department from various media: US News & World Report, Cleveland Plain Dealer Newspaper, Eastern Airlines. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence |
Folder number: | 02-02-01 |
Subject(s): | Public Relations - Customer Relations ; Postal Service - Employees |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | P.1. Press Queries 1968 |
Date: | 12/29/1967 |
Description: | Letters pertaining to interview requests to the Post Office Department from various media: Aviation Daily, Aviation week and Space Technology, New York Times, American Newspaper and Magazine Publisher's Association. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence |
Folder number: | 02-02-02 |
Subject(s): | Public Relations - Customer Relations ; Postal Service - Employees |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | P.O. DEPT. News Kit - Durham, N. C. |
Date: | 01/15/1965 |
Description: | Vertical Improved Mail Service News Kit. Talk by Assistant Postmaster General regarding installation of a speed mail delivery service to be installed in a new building in Durham North Carolina. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Press Releases |
Folder number: | 05-05-04 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | P.O. DEPT. News Kit of 5/19/66 |
Date: | 05/19/1966 |
Description: | Round-the-clock self-service postal units placed in 58 cities to improve postal service. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Press Releases |
Folder number: | 05-05-06 |
Subject(s): | Post Office Stations and Branches ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | P.O.D. |
Date: | 09/25/1967 |
Description: | Comprehensive report of 09/25/1967 on position papers covering subjects of current interest in the Postal Service. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Memorandums ; Brochures |
Folder number: | 03-04-12 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Employees |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Parcel Post - Hearings |
Date: | 01/27/1966 |
Description: | Discussion of the Parcel Post Reform Act by Senate committee and President and Post Office Department. Congressional testimony. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Press Releases ; Memorandums |
Folder number: | 02-01-19 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Public Relations - Press Releases ; Postal Service - Law and Legislation |
Folder title: | Paris Balloon Flts. 1870-7 |
Date: | 01/01/1870 |
Description: | Map showing balloon posts from Paris to various countries as well as balloon posts within France |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Maps |
Folder number: | 05-03-24 |
Subject(s): | Balloon post ; History - Postal ; Postal Service - Foreign |
Original source: | Stamp Wholesaler |
Folder title: | Pending - Resolution 25 Hearings - 7/31 - 8/3/67 Testimony Mr. Hartigan |
Date: | 10/06/1967 |
Description: | Testimony concerning S. 2333 that would provide certain benefits to postal employees who are transferred to new duty stations in the interest of the government. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Testimonies |
Folder number: | 02-07-06 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Law and Legislation ; Persons ; History - Postal |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Personnel 1 General Correspondence 1965-67 |
Date: | 04/01/1965 |
Description: | General correspondence of personnel concerns. National vs. Locality Pay systems for postal field service employees. Employee uniform allowance. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Photographs ; Memorandums |
Folder number: | 02-03-14 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Employees |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Personnel 3 Summer Employment 6/7/1966 |
Date: | 06/03/1966 |
Description: | Summer employment in 1966 for students that passed the Seasonal Assistant Examination. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Memorandums ; Reports |
Folder number: | 02-03-15 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Employees. ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Personnel 4 Univ. of Okla. Contract 6/16/66 |
Date: | 05/20/1966 |
Description: | Post Office Department training program at the University of Oklahoma 1966: a press release form, press release from University of Oklahoma, addresses of trainee's, Annual Report of United States Post Office in Oklahoma City. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Photographs ; Correspondence ; Press Releases |
Folder number: | 02-03-16 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Employees ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
Original source: | Post Office Department University of Oklahoma |
Folder title: | Personnel 6 New Contracts Employee Unions |
Date: | 03/20/1963 |
Description: | Information on new contracts with the U.S. Post Office Department and various labor unions. The Unions include the following: United Federation of Postal Clerks, AFL-CIO, The National Association of Letter Carriers, The National Rural Letter Carriers' Association, The National Association of Post Office and General Services Maintenance Employees, The National Federation of Post Office Motor Vehicle Employees, and the National Association of Special Delivery Messengers. In addition there is a copy of the Digest of the Congressional Record for Wednesday , 07/28/1965. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Press Releases ; Photographs |
Folder number: | 02-03-17 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Employees ; Public Relations - Press Releases ; Postal Service - Law and Legislation |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Personnel 7 Employment of Handicapped |
Date: | 01/27/1964 |
Description: | Information on Postal Employee's with handicaps: Report of the 1963 Annual Meeting of the President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped. A photograph of Miss. Ann Cannon with a Postal Official. Report from New York Offices of Handicapped employees. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Photographs ; Reports |
Folder number: | 02-03-18 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Employees ; Persons |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Personnel 8 POD Awards Ceremony (1967) |
Date: | 10/19/1966 |
Description: | Press Releases and photographs announcing awards for outstanding Achievement. Correspondence pertaining to the ceremonies and a pamphlet from the banquet. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Photographs ; Correspondence ; Press Releases |
Folder number: | 02-03-19 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Employees ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Planning |
Date: | 09/08/1970 |
Description: | Planning of future commemorative stamps with listed suggestions. Summary of the proceedings of the United States Postal Service Planning Conference of 02/1974. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence |
Folder number: | 03-01-24 |
Subject(s): | Postage stamp design |
Folder title: | PMG Day Press Conf |
Date: | 02/09/1961 |
Description: | Press conference regarding the increase of postal notes, the President withdrew 200 nominations for postmasters and the appointment of Mr. Henry Montgue as Chief Inspector. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Press Conference |
Folder number: | 03-02-06 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Postmasters ; Persons |
Folder title: | PMG News Conference on Airlift 1/11/68 |
Date: | 12/01/1967 |
Description: | Material on the January 11, 1968 press conference by the Postmaster General |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Memorandums ; Transcripts |
Folder number: | 02-07-07 |
Subject(s): | Public Relations - Press Releases ; Air mail service ; Postal Service - Postmasters |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | PMG Postmaster General's FY1966 Annual Report |
Date: | 06/23/1966 |
Description: | Annual Report for 1966 covering areas of Parcel Post, Postal Savings System, Employment Opportunities, Construction Plans, etc. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Memorandums ; Annual Reports |
Folder number: | 02-03-05 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Postal Service - Employees |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | PMG Suggested Introduction of PMG |
Date: | 10/14/1966 |
Description: | A list of comments from national magazines and newspapers pertaining to Lawrence F. O'Brien. A few examples include the following: Life, New York Times, New York Post, Chicago Daily, and the Baltimore Sun. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Memorandums ; Lists |
Folder number: | 02-02-45 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Postmasters |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | PMG1 Proposed Non-Profit Corp. 4/3/67 |
Date: | 11/23/1966 |
Description: | Papers concerning converting Post Office Department into a non-profit corporation. Report to British Parliament "Reorganisation of the Post Office, 1967. Executive Order of April 8, 1967 establishing the President's Commission On Postal Organization. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Press Releases ; Articles ; Memorandums |
Folder number: | 02-06-05 |
Subject(s): | Administration ; Postal Service - History ; Public Relations - Press Releases) |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Policy 1961 3.1.27 |
Date: | 02/14/1961 |
Description: | Material on policy issues, some of the issues contained in this file include : Mechanization, relationships with the postal union, the President's decree terminating the program of examining mail from abroad, position on pornography, enforcement of anti-obscenity laws. A copy of President Kennedy's Inaugural Address, a summary of General J. Edward Day's first 100 days in office. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Press Releases ; Correspondence ; Memorandums ; Articles |
Folder number: | 01-07-26 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Law and Legislation ; Public Relations - Press Releases ; Automation |
Folder title: | Post Office Department Notices |
Date: | 07/14/1941 |
Description: | Memoranda and notices regarding employee performance, welfare and recreation. Letters concerning postage stamps. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Memorandums ; Brochures |
Folder number: | 02-01-22 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Employees ; Postage Stamps |
Folder title: | Post Office Dept. Speakers at Shows |
Date: | 01/25/1962 |
Description: | Correspondence pertaining to postal employees and others who are associated with the postal service that will be guest speakers for stamp exhibitions. Most of the letters are confirmations of speaking engagements, and meeting with organizers to confirm topics of discussion. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Floor Plans |
Folder number: | 01-03-08 |
Subject(s): | Exhibitions ; Postal Service - Employees ; Speeches |
Folder title: | Postage Rates AP-WX = 04.07.87, 03.12.87, 04.20.87, 05.05.87, 05.06.87 |
Date: | 03/12/1987 |
Description: | The press release includes changes that were made by the Postal Service Board of Governors. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Wire Service Messages |
Folder number: | 05-06-17 |
Subject(s): | Postal Rates ; Postal Service - Governor |
Original source: | AP Wire Service |
Folder title: | Postage Stamp Printing |
Date: | 10/28/1938 |
Description: | The third assistant post master general requested information from various countries about their postage stamp manufacturing process. Reply from the British Postal Services Department; the Direction General of Posts, The Hague, Holland; the German Post; the Direction General of the Royal Post of Hungary; The Swiss PTT; The Argentine Republic; and, the Republic of France with information on the printing of postage stamps. A brief history of the United States Postal Service. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence |
Folder number: | 03-03-06 |
Subject(s): | Postage Stamp Printing |
Folder title: | Postal Executives |
Date: | 04/01/1965 |
Description: | Listing of Post Office Department executives and list of titles and addresses of Postal Employee Organizations. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Lists |
Folder number: | 03-01-18 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Employees ; Persons |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Postal Leader |
Date: | 02/01/1971 |
Description: | Four copies of the Postal Leader newspaper for Postal Managers. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Newspapers |
Folder number: | 04-03-12 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Employees |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Postal Rate - Pay News Kit |
Date: | 10/17/63 |
Description: | Information about increasing the postage rate and Post Office Department employee's salaries. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Press Releases |
Folder number: | 05-05-03 |
Subject(s): | Postal Rates ; Public Relations - Press Releases ; Postal Service - Employees |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Postal Service - Law and Legislation POD Forms |
Date: | 05/20/1947 |
Description: | Philatelic Sales Unit order forms, cashier's record of covers forms. 91st Congress Report 91-1363 and Public Law-91-375 booklets. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Forms ; Congress Reports |
Folder number: | 03-04-25 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service Law and Legislation |
Original source: | Post Office Department Congress |
Folder title: | Postal Strike - N.Y. Times Clippings (March 1970) |
Date: | 03/20/1970 |
Description: | Articles advising people of the strike with article updates. Its content expresses the need for zip codes. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Articles |
Folder number: | 05-06-25 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Strikes and Lockouts |
Original source: | New York Times |
Folder title: | Postmasters General Postmasters Local |
Date: | 02/09/1967 |
Description: | List of Postmasters General from 1775 to 1954 |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Lists ; Correspondence |
Folder number: | 05-07-18 |
Subject(s): | Stamp Collecting (Philately) ; Postal Service - Postmasters |
Folder title: | Priority Mail 4/6/67 |
Date: | 04/17/1967 |
Description: | A status report on the Priority Mail Program . |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Reports |
Folder number: | 02-07-05 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Project #2 Carry Wilmer |
Date: | 09/23/1960 |
Description: | Press releases providing information on the efficiency of the Postal Service. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Memorandums ; Press Releases |
Folder number: | 02-07-20 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service |
Original source: | Post Office department |
Folder title: | Public Relations Speeches & Orientations |
Date: | 03/03/1967 |
Description: | Speeches of Postmasters for officer training - orientation for new employees. A list of responsibilities for the public information officer. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Speeches |
Folder number: | 02-02-22 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Employees ; Speeches |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Public Service Awards 3.1.23 |
Description: | Several blank Post Office Department Public Service Awards certificates. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Award Certificates |
Folder number: | 01-07-22 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Employees |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Publications |
Date: | 08/01/1955 |
Description: | Pamphlets providing information to the public about the Postal Service. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Publications |
Folder number: | 03-03-16 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Railroad Strike - December 1970 |
Date: | 02/06/1968 |
Description: | Postal Service activities related to the rail strike. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Press Releases ; Telegrams |
Folder number: | 02-07-21 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Strikes and Lockouts ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Railroad Strike - July 1967 |
Date: | 07/13/1967 |
Description: | Railroads no longer want to carry mail. Also a discussion of the use of the phrase "junk mail" by the Post Master General. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Memorandums ; Press Releases |
Folder number: | 02-01-25 |
Subject(s): | Railway Mail Service ; Postal Service - Strikes and Lockouts ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
Folder title: | Reg. Admin. 1 General Corres. File |
Date: | 07/12/1967 |
Description: | Several topics, appointment of personnel, conferences, etc. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Memorandums ; Press Releases ; Agendas |
Folder number: | 02-06-28 |
Subject(s): | Administration ; Public Relations - Press Releases ; Postal Service - Employees |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Reg. Admin. 2 Postal Service Trainee Conf |
Date: | 08/04/1966 |
Description: | Announcements and material for executive training held at Washington, D.C. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Memorandums ; Press Releases ; Agendas |
Folder number: | 02-06-29 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Employees ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
Folder title: | Regional Memos (All Regions) |
Date: | 11/10/1965 |
Description: | Memoranda concerning speed of mail service to Regional Directors or Assistants. Mail delivery needs improvement |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Memorandums ; Telegrams |
Folder number: | 02-01-26 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Release - History of Air Mail 4/17/69 |
Date: | 04/17/1969 |
Description: | Copies of a Post Office Department press release with a brief history of air transportation of mail. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Press Releases |
Folder number: | 02-01-21 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Air Mail ; Public Relations - Press Relations |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Reproduction of Postage Stamps |
Date: | 01/12/1959 |
Description: | Reproduction of postage stamps are under strict rules and regulations. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Regulations ; Correspondence |
Folder number: | 03-02-49 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Law and Legislation |
Original source: | Post Office Department Congress |
Folder title: | Reproduction of U.S. and Foreign Stamps |
Date: | 07/22/1968 |
Description: | Rules and regulations concerning the reproduction of U. S. and foreign stamps. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Documents |
Folder number: | 06-04-01 |
Subject(s): | Postage Stamps ; Postal Service - Law and Legislation |
Original source: | Department of the Treasury Secret Service |
Folder title: | Reproduction, Illustrations PS 1961 |
Date: | 01/04/1961 |
Description: | Correspondence between the Post Office Department and individuals and organizations concerning the colored reproduction of U.S. postage stamps and the strict law governing reproduction. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence |
Folder number: | 02-01-14 |
Subject(s): | Postage Stamps ; Postal Service - Law and Legislation |
Folder title: | Riots |
Date: | 05/07/1968 |
Description: | Correspondence pertaining to delays and mail stoppage due to Post Office buildings being attacked during riots in the following cities: Washington D.C., Silver Spring, MD, and Memphis, TN among others.. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Memorandums |
Folder number: | 02-02-28 |
Subject(s): | Post Office Stations & Branches ; Postal Service |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Roper Report - - 1967 |
Date: | 09/01/1967 |
Description: | The Roper Report was made on the public opinion of the Postal Service. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Reports |
Folder number: | 02-04-13 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service |
Original source: | Post Office Department Roper Research Association |
Folder title: | Senate |
Date: | 04/27/1949 |
Description: | Letters responding to Senators requests or questions about various aspects of the Post Office Department. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence |
Folder number: | 02-04-15 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Law and Legislation |
Original source: | Post Office Department Senate |
Folder title: | Some Manpower & Employment Information |
Date: | 02/11/1905 |
Description: | Canal Zone Postal Service training information for postal employees. Newspaper clippings regarding employment. |
Collection: | Panama |
Includes: | Speeches ; Information Sheets ; Articles |
Folder number: | 30-03-154 |
Subject(s): | Employees |
Folder title: | Speech Smut Virginia School 3.1.30 |
Date: | 07/06/1959 |
Description: | The following is a small example of items contained in this file. An article in Family Weekly Magazine: Let's Stop Filth Through the Mails, other works by Postmaster General Summerfield include How teenagers of America can help stamp out the obscene mail threat. Scripts from both television and radio for the anti-obscenity program. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Press Releases ; Scripts |
Folder number: | 01-07-29 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Law and Legislation ; Public Relations - Press Releases ; Speeches |
Folder title: | Speed Mail |
Date: | 11/01/1960 |
Description: | 1960 speed mail utilizing satellite echo. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Press Releases ; Photographs |
Folder number: | 03-04-01 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Electronic Mail Service ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
Folder title: | Sunday Service |
Date: | 04/20/1817 |
Description: | Copy of a letter sent on Sunday, 04/20/1817, from New York to Philadelphia. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence |
Folder number: | 06-04-22 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service |
Original source: | J. Warner Brackett |
Folder title: | Tin Can Mail |
Date: | 01/01/1934 |
Description: | Photos of Tin Can covers and those who swim out. Articles about Tin Can mail. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Photographs ; Articles |
Folder number: | 05-03-43 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Ship Letters |
Folder title: | Trans - 10 Executive Planning BD - Airlift Program |
Date: | 04/22/1966 |
Description: | To achieve next day delivery of mail, research and development is necessary. The use of computer controlled, dispatch oriented, mail processing systems may accomplish this. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Memorandums ; Correspondence |
Folder number: | 02-01-29 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Speed Mail ; Automation ; Air mail service |
Folder title: | Trans Reading RR 1963 |
Date: | 02/11/1963 |
Description: | Information on the Post Office Department dropping its contract with the Reading Railroad in favor of trucks. The Evening News is another featured newspaper covering the story. The contract between the Post Office Department and the Reading Railroad was for $2.1 Million. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Press Releases ; Articles ; Correspondence |
Folder number: | 02-04-11 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Administration |
Original source: | Post Office Department Reading Railroad News |
Folder title: | Trans 12 Overseas Mail & Viet Nam |
Date: | 09/17/1964 |
Description: | Military mail out of the U.S. primarily to Viet Nam - rules, regulations, carriers, storage facilities, deliveries, etc. Copy of Department of the Army Circular 65-1 Assignment of ZIP-APO Codes to APO Addresses. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Memorandums ; Press Releases ; Articles |
Folder number: | 03-01-27 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
Folder title: | Trans 13 Priority Mail & New Policy |
Date: | 02/25/1963 |
Description: | Material related to the Priority Mail service and the movement of mail by airlift. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Memorandums ; Articles ; Press Releases |
Folder number: | 02-01-30 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Air Mail ; Public Relations - Press Releases ; Mail Service |
Folder title: | Trans 13-1 Newspaper Pub. Meeting (2nd and 3rd Class) |
Date: | 02/12/1968 |
Description: | At the Newspaper and Magazine Publishers meeting in 1968 there were many complaints about delays in distribution of publications. The Post Office Department reaction is given. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Memorandums ; Articles |
Folder number: | 02-01-24 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service |
Folder title: | Trans 14 Flying Tiger |
Date: | 04/07/1964 |
Description: | Post Office Department working with the Civil Aviation Board to lower Latin America and overseas air mail rates in contract to the Flying Tiger Airline that proposed lowing domestic rates. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Memorandums ; Articles |
Folder number: | 02-01-35 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Air Mail ; Postal Rates |
Folder title: | Trans 14.1 News Stories (miscellaneous) |
Date: | 07/30/1964 |
Description: | Post Office Department memoranda on the ever declining number of passenger trains used for the transpiration of mail. Correspondence with complain about service. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Memorandums ; Correspondence ; Articles |
Folder number: | 03-01-01 |
Subject(s): | Railway Mail Service ; Postal Service |
Folder title: | Trans 18 Railroad Strikes (General) |
Date: | 07/10/1963 |
Description: | Deals with strikes in the U.S. and foreign countries delaying transportation of mail as well as potential strikes that could effect the mail. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Articles ; Memorandums ; Press Releases |
Folder number: | 03-01-02 |
Subject(s): | Railway Mail Service ; Postal Service - Strikes and Lockouts |
Folder title: | Trans 18-1 Railroad Strike (July 17, 1967) |
Date: | 02/13/1963 |
Description: | Information on the National Postal Strike in 1967, both before and after. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Press Releases ; Correspondence ; Fact Sheets ; Memorandums |
Folder number: | 02-04-12 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Strikes and Lockouts ; Public Relations - Press Releases ; Administration |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Trans 20 Sectional Centers |
Date: | 04/01/1962 |
Description: | Information on Sectional Centers in the United States. There are a total of 553 sectional centers (at this time). Establishment of Orlando, Florida as a Sectional Center selected due to its availability to all transportation medias and the capacity to handle day to day fluctuations. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Fact Sheets ; Articles |
Folder number: | 02-04-08 |
Subject(s): | Administration ; Postal service |
Original source: | Post Office Department The Buckeye Postmaster |
Folder title: | Trans 21 Massachusetts |
Date: | 03/01/1964 |
Description: | Information on the Boston area: The swearing in of Owen J. Justin as acting Postmaster of Amesbury Post Office. Photograph of meeting of Postmaster William Hartigan with Pope Paul VI at the Vatican to improve relations with the Vatican and Post Office Department. A route map Of Massachusetts 1963; proposal to use English and Spanish as languages of the Universal Postal Union. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Press Releases ; Articles ; Maps ; Photographs |
Folder number: | 02-04-10 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Public Relations - Press Releases ; Postal Service - Postmasters |
Original source: | Post Office Department Revere Journal |
Folder title: | Trans N.Y. Parcel Post Strike - 5/2/68 |
Date: | 05/13/1968 |
Description: | A daily highlight report concentrating on the postal strike of '68. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Memorandums |
Folder number: | 01-07-10 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Strikes and Lockouts |
Folder title: | Trans New Orleans, LA 4/1/65 |
Date: | 03/05/1965 |
Description: | A statement by John A. Gronouski, before the House Post Office and Civil Service Committee March 11, 1965, remarks by Frederick Bartus concerning the centennial of railway mail. A large amount of material in this file contains information on a Chamber of Commerce Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana attended by William Hartigan in 1965 |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Testimonies ; Memorandums ; Correspondence ; Speeches |
Folder number: | 02-04-09 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Law and Legislation ; Speeches ; Railway Mail Service |
Folder title: | Trans. Longshoremen's Strike - 12/20/68 |
Date: | 01/16/1969 |
Description: | Correspondence relating to the longshoremen's strike and procedures to deal with the effects. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Press Releases |
Folder number: | 02-07-04 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Strikes and Lockouts ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Trans. 1 Gen. Correspondence 1965 |
Date: | 03/10/1965 |
Description: | General administrative correspondence. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Memorandums |
Folder number: | 02-06-30 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Administration |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Trans. 1 Gen. Correspondence 1966 |
Date: | 01/14/1966 |
Description: | General administrative correspondence. One draft of an information sheet on the history of pneumatic mail. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Memorandums |
Folder number: | 02-06-31 |
Subject(s): | Administration ; Postal Service ; Pneumatic Machinery |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Trans. 4 Airline Strikes (General) |
Date: | 04/21/1966 |
Description: | Material on moving the mails during strikes. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Fact Sheets ; Memorandums ; Articles |
Folder number: | 02-07-11 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Strikes and Lockouts ; Air mail service |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Trans. 4-1 Airline Strike (Pan American) |
Date: | 12/02/1966 |
Description: | Discussion of moving the mail via alternate airline if this strike occurs. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Fact Sheets ; Telegrams |
Folder number: | 02-07-12 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Strikes and Lockouts ; Air mail service |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Treasury Deptartment - U.S. Secret Service 1958 |
Date: | 09/23/1958 |
Description: | The 85th Congress passed legislation regarding illustrations of paper money and securities, stamps, coins in advertising film. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Memorandums |
Folder number: | 02-01-02 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Law and Legislation ; Postage Stamps |
Original source: | Department of the Treasury |
Folder title: | TWX's Strike 1971 |
Date: | 03/21/1970 |
Description: | Material including memoranda, newspapers, letters, fact sheets, releases, status reports and telegraph messages from major offices in strike situations. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Memorandums ; Correspondence ; Fact Sheets ; Press Releases |
Folder number: | 02-03-02 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Strikes and Lockouts ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
Original source: | Post Office Department Fairmount Times |
Folder title: | U. N. Day |
Date: | 09/21/1961 |
Description: | Celebration of United Nations Day 10/21/1961. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Posters ; Correspondence |
Folder number: | 03-02-08 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Foreign ; Posters |
Folder title: | U. P. U. |
Description: | History of the Universal Postal Union |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Essays |
Folder number: | 04-06-17 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Foreign Mail |
Folder title: | U. S. - Steamship Mail (Ocean & Foreign) Inland Waterways (Domestic) |
Date: | 01/01/1959 |
Description: | Manual by the Post Office Department for International Mail, a clipping about "Sea Jug Post" and "Steamboat Technology…..", a seminar talk. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Articles ; Brochures |
Folder number: | 06-04-21 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service |
Folder title: | U. S. Delegation Report to UPU |
Date: | 09/20/1968 |
Description: | Report on the Management Council of the UPU Consultative Committee for Postal Studies held in Moscow, USSR. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Reports |
Folder number: | 02-06-27 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Foreign |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | U. S. Express Mail - 1836 - 39 |
Date: | 08/01/1926 - 10/01/1943 |
Description: | Four articles pertaining to the Pony Express: Express Mail 1836-1839 "the First Pony Express"; The Express Mail; Further notes on the Express Mail of 1836-39; The Express Mail of 1836-1839 |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Articles |
Folder number: | 01-02-25 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service |
Folder title: | U. S. Postal Service Policy for Domestic Stamp Shows and philatelic exhibitions |
Date: | 12/14/1973 |
Description: | A copy of the Post Office Department policy for domestic stamp shows and Philatelic exhibitions. Copy of a letter to the Secretary of the Greater Toronto Coin and Stamp Exhibitions denying a request for use of the film strip - Stamps in the Making. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Policy Statements |
Folder number: | 01-01-11 |
Subject(s): | Exhibitions ; Administration |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | U. S. Posts - 1800 to 1861 (Prior to the Civil War) |
Date: | 08/18/1802 |
Description: | Magazine articles and letters pertaining to U. S. Postal Service and employment from 1800 - 1861. Handwritten letter from I. D. Cox 4/14/1859 concerning agents on a mail route in Virginia. (In white archival envelope) ; Articles about historic highways in the United States. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Articles ; Correspondence |
Folder number: | 01-02-12 |
Subject(s): | Post Office Buildings ; History - Postal ; Postal Employment - Employees |
Original source: | American Association of Highway Officials |
Folder title: | Universal Postal Union |
Date: | 03/01/1964 |
Description: | Discussion of the Universal Postal Union's founding. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Articles |
Folder number: | 05-03-22 |
Subject(s): | History - Postal ; Postal Service - Law and Legislation |
Original source: | Union Postale, Vol. 89, No.3 |
Folder title: | Untitled |
Date: | 03/24/1915 |
Description: | File of correspondence and memoranda concerning the design, issue, and use of Canal Zone stamps as well as the Canal Zone Postal Service as a whole. Machine copies of stamps. |
Collection: | Panama |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Memorandums |
Folder number: | 30-03-145 |
Subject(s): | Philatelic History ; Design |
Folder title: | US Patent Office - In Re Machines of Various Types for Postal Use |
Date: | 10/11/1927 |
Description: | Stamp issuing machine, parcel post machine, weight control machine, cash register, etc. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Drawings |
Folder number: | 05-06-45 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service |
Folder title: | US Patent Office - In Re Machines Used for Postal Servicel |
Date: | 09/19/1865 |
Description: | Envelope sealing, cash register, postage meter and hand stamp machines. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Drawings |
Folder number: | 05-06-46 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Metered Mail ; Cancelling Machines ; Mail Service |
Original source: | Patent Office |
Folder title: | US Patent Office - In Re Postage Meter |
Date: | 04/03/1866 |
Description: | Patents for Postage Meters, machine for sealing letters, printing press, postal machine, envelope moisteners, resettable register and clutch control. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Drawings |
Folder number: | 05-06-41 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Metered Mail |
Original source: | Patent Office |
Folder title: | US Patent Office - In Re Printing Macines for Postal Use |
Date: | 04/10/1945 |
Description: | Printing machine, envelope feeder and mail treating machines. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Drawings |
Folder number: | 05-06-44 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service |
Original source: | Patent Office |
Folder title: | US Patent Office - Postage Meter Machines |
Date: | 03/15/1927 |
Description: | Patents for postage meter machines. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Drawings |
Folder number: | 05-06-42 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Metered Mail |
Original source: | Patent Office |
Folder title: | US Patent Office - Various Mail Treating Machines |
Date: | 06/03/1947 |
Description: | Tape moistening device, registering mechanism, postage meter loading mechanism, and speed control mechanism. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Drawings |
Folder number: | 05-06-43 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service |
Original source: | Patent Office |
Folder title: | USPOD |
Date: | 09/23/1958 |
Description: | Press releases from the Post Office Department, Treasury, Defense and Navy regarding legislation, sales, rural mail service as well as rate and legal changes. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Press Releases ; Brochures |
Folder number: | 03-02-42 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Law and Legislation ; Public Relations - Press Releases ; Postal Rates |
Folder title: | USPOD - U.S. Mail Wagons Regulation and Screen Wagon |
Date: | 06/30/1897 |
Description: | Copies of Postal Service reports of 1897 and 1904 regarding wagon service. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Reports |
Folder number: | 03-03-21 |
Subject(s): | Wagons |
Original source: | Postmaster General |
Folder title: | USPOD Letters to - |
Date: | 10/28/1959 |
Description: | Letters responding to various requests for stamps and information. Most signed by Franklin R. Bruns, Jr. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence |
Folder number: | 03-03-19 |
Subject(s): | Letter Writing - Government Correspondence ; Postal Service |
Folder title: | USPOD Miscel |
Date: | 07/15/1971 |
Description: | Weekly Highlight Report, handling of First Day Covers and list of stamp subjects used. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Reports ; Lists |
Folder number: | 03-03-17 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Covers ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
Folder title: | USPOD Nashville, TN |
Date: | 07/02/1924 |
Description: | Notices Sent to postal patrons by the Post Office Department. of Nashville, Tennessee. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Notices |
Folder number: | 03-02-09 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service |
Original source: | Postmaster Nashville, Tennessee |
Folder title: | USPOD Philatelic Sales Unit 3 |
Date: | 10/01/1961 - 02/01/1963 |
Description: | Press release and postal rate and pay increase information. Post Office Department telephone book. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Telephone Directories ; Lists |
Folder number: | 03-03-03 |
Subject(s): | Postal Rates ; Postal Service - Employees ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | USPOD Photo of 1836 Voucher & Cover |
Date: | 01/18/1836 |
Description: | A photograph of a voucher from 1836, Salt Creek, IL showing salaries and pensions. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Photographs |
Folder number: | 01-02-15 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Employees ; History - Postal |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | USPOD Press Releases |
Date: | 07/11/1985 |
Description: | Press wire stories covering a broad spectrum of subjects - Soviet rejection of a lot of packages sent there, staff changes, stamp subjects, delivery of mail to homes vis-a-vis cluster boxes |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Wire Service Messages |
Folder number: | 03-03-22 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Law and Legislation |
Original source: | Associated Press |
Folder title: | USPOD Speed Mail |
Date: | 11/01/1960 |
Description: | Speed mail transmits official correspondence for Federal agencies. The system employs micro-waves to send letters between cities. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Press Releases |
Folder number: | 03-03-20 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | V. C. Burke, PM Washington, D. C. (1936) |
Date: | 07/09/1936 |
Description: | A letter describing the location, service, revenue and functions of the Washington D.C. post office. Copy of an address for NBC'S Farm and Home Hour. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Speeches |
Folder number: | 01-01-08 |
Subject(s): | Post Office Stations & Branches ; Postal Service ; Public Relations - Customer Relations |
Original source: | Vincent C. Burke |
Folder title: | Vice President |
Date: | 06/29/1962 |
Description: | Letters dealing with postal and philatelic suggestions to the office of Vice President. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Memorandums ; Correspondence ; Designs |
Folder number: | 02-04-16 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Administration ; Stamp Collecting (Philately) |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Virginia Brizendine |
Date: | 07/26/1965 |
Description: | Mrs. Brizendine to be promoted to Director of Philately effective 08/15/65. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Memorandums |
Folder number: | 03-01-20 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Employees ; Persons |
Folder title: | Wagon Collection and Distribution Mail |
Date: | 04/11/1936 |
Description: | An article about a mail service by the United States Post Office Department in the late 19th century. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Articles |
Folder number: | 01-02-20 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Transportation |
Original source: | Stamps Magazine |
Folder title: | Wilson, William L. (PMG) "Why I oppose Governmental Control of the Telegraph" The Arena No. 74 |
Date: | 01/01/1896 |
Description: | Postmaster-General William L. Wilson states his opinion about the government taking over the telegraph service. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Articles |
Folder number: | 06-04-27 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Electronic Mail Service ; Postal Service - Postmasters |
Original source: | The Arena |
Folder title: | Youth Summer Employment |
Date: | 07/24/1965 |
Description: | Post Office Department Fact Sheet on Summer Employment Program |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Memorandums |
Folder number: | 03-01-19 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Employees |
Folder title: | Zip Code Campaign |
Description: | A letter from Postmaster General O'Brien to the Advertising Council Inc., copies from the radios Public Service Announcements urging people to use zip codes. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Public Service Announcements |
Folder number: | 01-02-30 |
Subject(s): | Zip Codes ; Public Relations - Customer Relations ; Postal Service |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Zones - Experimental of 1895-1900 (Mail Handling) |
Date: | 07/27/1897 |
Description: | Proposed scheme for postal zones. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence |
Folder number: | 06-05-53 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service |