President Nixon signed the Postal Reorganization Act on Aug. 12, 1970
History
President Nixon signed the Postal Reorganization Act on Aug. 12, 1970
Benjamin Franklin began his tenure as postmaster general on July 26, 1775
The Apollo 11 astronauts made postal history on July 22, 1969
V-Mail was launched June 15, 1942
The missile mail experiment took place on June 8, 1959
The postal civil defense plan was released May 27, 1955
The first scheduled airmail flight occurred May 15, 1918
The first Forever stamp was issued April 12, 2007
The panel that helps select stamp subjects was formed in 1957
The first postal pneumatic tube system debuted in Philadelphia in 1893
The popular series debuted 46 years ago
The first postmaster general was born 318 years ago