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