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This circa 1901 photo provided by the U.S. Postal Service shows a mail carrier on Rural Route No. 2, in Rochester, Ind. (U.S. Postal Service via AP)

PHOTO COLLECTION: The U.S. Postal Service at 250

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FILE – Barry Stevens, portraying Benjamin Franklin, right, walks past a just unveiled stamp marking the 250th anniversary of the postal service, Wednesday, July 23, 2025, in Washington, as Postmaster General David Steiner looks on. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)
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FILE – This illustration depicts a Pony Express rider, left, greeting Western Union linemen as they string wires of the first transcontinental telegraph in 1861. (AP Photo/File)
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In this undated photo provided by the U.S. Postal Service, railway mail clerks sort mail in a Railway Post Office, a service that ran from 1864 to 1977. (U.S. Postal Service via AP)
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In this photo provided by the National Archives and Records Administration, mail is loaded onto a Curtiss JN-4H “Jenny” biplane, May 15, 1918, at Bustleton Field near Philadelphia, while U.S. Army personnel look on. (National Archives and Records Administration via AP)
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FILE – Francis J. Hunter, foreground left, foreman at the General Post Office in New York, puts the first batch of mail in the new pneumatic tube couriers, Oct. 25, 1932, that will move mail up and down the city at a mile a minute, carrying a total of 6,000,000 letters daily. (AP Photo/File)
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This photo provided by the Library of Congress shows people at the Nethers, Va., post office in Oct. 1935, during the Great Depression. (Arthur Rothstein/Farm Security Administration/Library of Congress via AP)
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In this 1939 photo from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information a man carries a carton of baby chicks from a post office in San Augustine, Texas. (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information via AP)
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This photo provided by the Library of Congress shows Postmaster Arch Evander McPhaul, left, at the Pie Town, N.M., post office in June 1940, while a mail carrier arranges mail sacks on the roof of his car, also carrying freight and passengers on the Socorro, N.M., to Springerville, Ariz., route. (Library of Congress via AP)
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FILE – President Franklin Roosevelt, right, has the honor on his 59th birthday, Jan. 30, 1941, to mail the first letter in the post office department’s new highway truck, which is fitted out like a railroad postal car, as Postmaster General Frank Walker looks on, in Washington. (AP Photo/File)
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In this photo provided by the National Archives, Maj. Charity E. Adams and Capt. Mary Kearney, of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, inspect the first contingent of Black members of the Women’s Army Corps assigned to overseas service in England on Feb. 15, 1945. (Holt/U.S. Army via AP)
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This 1942 US Army Signal Corps photo provided by Library of Congress shows Japanese Americans at a post office at the Puyallup, Wash., Assembly Center during the forced removal of Japanese Americans to internment camps during World War II. (Library of Congress via AP)
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FILE – A helicopter with sacks of mail prepares to land on special area atop the Los Angeles terminal annex post office, Dec. 10, 1947. (AP Photo/Frank Filan, File)
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FILE – Capt. Leo Roesser, left of Rochester, N.Y., and his crew of four pose with bags full of mail from home for U.S. 7th Division GI’s in Korea, on Oct. 15, 1950. (AP Photo/File)
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FILE – Mail carriers on motor scooters marked U.S. Mail, leave a branch post office in northwest Miami, on May 11, 1953, for use in areas of the city where the carriers’ routes are widely spread out. (AP Photo/Earl Shugars, File)
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This photo provided by U.S. Postal Service shows a guided missile carrying 3,000 letters, fired from the submarine USS Barbero, June 8, 1959, traveling more than 100 miles in about 22 minutes, delivering its cargo of letters to a naval air station in Florida. (U.S. Postal Service via AP)
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In this photo provided by U.S. Postal Service, Postmaster General J. Edward Day, left, and two Washington letter carriers pose in front of Mr. ZIP, a cartoon character promoting the use of the ZIP Code, on July 1, 1963. (U.S. Postal Service via AP)
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FILE – Picketers at San Francisco’s Rincon Annex post office refuse to allow mail truck to pass during wildcat postal strike, on March 21, 1970. (East Bay Times via AP, File)
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FILE – A soldier, foreground, handles bulk mail, as other GIs place letters in coops at the General Post Office in New York, March 24, 1970, in the wake of President Nixon’s order for federal troops to help sort out the city’s strike-bound postal facilities. (AP Photo/File)
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FILE – Elvis fans gather to vote for their favorite Elvis Presley postage stamp design, at the central Post Office in Boston. April 6, 1992, the first time the Postal Service has put a stamp design out to public vote. (AP Photo/Lisa Bul, File)
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FILE – A group of European tourists stop at the “Worlds Smallest Post Office,” Sept. 18, 2000, on U.S. Hghway 41 at the small community of Ochopee, Fla. (AP Photo/Phil Sandlin, File)
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FILE – U.S. Postal Service letter carrier Stan Niton, for the city of Johnstown, Pa., adjusts his protective face mask while delivering mail on his route in Richland Township, May 22, 2020. (Thomas Slusser/The Tribune-Democrat via AP, File)
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A stone marker that now lies behind the Spencer Country Inn, indicates Boston is 57 miles from this spot, as seen July 28, 2004, in Spencer, Mass. The stone markers were established by Benjamin Franklin as a way to gage distance along the major postal routes between Boston and New York. (AP Photo/Nancy Palmieri)
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FILE – An Amazon Prime truck and a U.S. Postal Service truck make deliveries at an apartment complex in Pittsburgh, Feb. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
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A mail truck and airplanes used in early airmail service are displayed at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum on Thursday, July 17, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
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Stinson Reliant, left, and de Havilland airplanes used in early airmail service are displayed at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum on Thursday, July 17, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
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A visitor looks at a stagecoach that was once used to transport mail is displayed at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum on Thursday, July 17, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
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An envelope that was carried on the Pony Express is displayed at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum on Thursday, July 17, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
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A letter and envelope that were mailed as part of the anthrax mail attacks of 2001 are displayed at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum on Thursday, July 17, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
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This image provided by the U.S. Postal Service shows the first U.S. postage stamps, denominated in 5 and 10 cents, issued in 1847, depicting Benjamin Franklin and George Washington. (U.S. Postal Service via AP)

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