But He Was The First Postmaster General Of The United States In 1753, the British Crown made Benjamin Franklin the postmaster of all 13 colonies, a post he held for two decades. And in July 1755 ...

The deputy postmaster general of North America and ... the fourth paper in the colonies (and the third in Boston). As apprentice, Benjamin Franklin does the grunt work—“I was employed to ...

Now, thanks to years of dogged fundraising on both sides of the Atlantic, Benjamin ... deputy postmaster general for North America and commercial agent for several of the Colonies, Franklin ...

President Trump is considering a plan to merge the Postal Service into the Commerce Department. Elon Musk has suggested the ...

At the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin (who had been appointed Postmaster General in 1775 by the Second Continental Congress) suggested that, in addition to establishing post roads ...

Why a film about Benjamin Franklin? David Schmidt ... Through his role as a postmaster and printer, he exchanged news, ideas, and theories with well-connected and ingenious people on his continent ...

The postmaster general has agreed to work with ... look to privatize the agency that traces its roots back to 1775 and Benjamin Franklin, the first postmaster general. Carrying signs with slogans ...

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy signed an ... U.S Postal Service — the 250-year-old agency that was first led by Benjamin Franklin — DeJoy continues to push his 10-year “Delivering for ...

The U.S. Postal Service has been around since 1775, when Benjamin Franklin was the first postmaster general, earlier than the United States itself. Now, with major cutbacks being seen across all ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy an elevated position in the American imagination. He was, after all, the man who risked life and limb to ...