Tuesday, May 22, 2012

THE POSTAL MUSEUM


ALL I CAN SAY IS "WOW".  THEY HAVE A MUSEUM FOR EVERYTHING. 

THIS "POSTAL MUSEUM" WAS JUST FASCINATING.
THE HISTORY OF HOW THE POSTAL SYSTEM IS REMARKABLE. 

The museum is across the street from Union Station.  It is a beautiful building. Used to be the 
Washington DC Post Office.  The inside detail work is really fine.





Inside the old Post Office

the Ceiling

The old Post Office with all the windows



The ceiling with stamp work


the entry of the museum displays forms of travel used to move mail

In honor of Benjamin Franklin- the father of modern mail

Modern mail truck


Inside an old Mail Rail Car
Owney- the dog who became the Postal mascot.  He traveled on the Mail railcars all over the country. Everywhere he went they attached tags to him to show where he had been.  He became very 
famous.  When he died, the postal workers had him stuffed and he is on display here in the museum



Stage coach with mail


The "King's Best Highway"  The original route of the mail on the east coast.


Pony Express- one of the private companies that tried to run the mail

                                        

The push for FREE delivery




The town Post office was the Central meeting place.  You had to pick up your mail and go there to send mail before stamps.

The invention of the Zip Code




The OCR machine could read the addresses and made mail service much faster










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