“An Office I had some kind of Right to”: Benjamin Franklin and the Origins of the U.S. Postal Service
Posted by Lorett Treese on Sep 8, 2025 in | Comments Off on “An Office I had some kind of Right to”: Benjamin Franklin and the Origins of the U.S. Postal Service In 1788, near the end of his life, Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) summed up a lengthy and significant association with the postal system in America in a letter to his old friend Charles Thomson, then secretary of the Continental Congress. Franklin wrote, “On my Return from England the Congress bestow’d on me the Office of Postmaster General, for which I was very thankful. It was indeed an Office I...read more