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Neither Snow Nor Rain: A History of the United States Postal Service

With Devin Leonard, a staff writer at Bloomberg Businessweek, and Evan Kalish, creator of Postlandia, a blog dedicated to chronicling his visits to over 7,000 post offices in America.

This illustrated lecture is a rich, multifaceted history, full of remarkable characters, from the the first letter carriers through Ben Franklin’s days, when postmasters worked out of their homes and post roads cut new paths through the wilderness, to stamp-collecting FDR, to the revolutionaries who challenged USPS’s monopoly on mail, to the renegade union members who brought the system — and the country — to a halt in the 1970s.











When: Thu., Aug. 11, 2016 at 6:30 pm
Where: New York Public Library—Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library
476 Fifth Ave. (42nd St. Entrance)
212-340-0863
Price: Free
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With Devin Leonard, a staff writer at Bloomberg Businessweek, and Evan Kalish, creator of Postlandia, a blog dedicated to chronicling his visits to over 7,000 post offices in America.

This illustrated lecture is a rich, multifaceted history, full of remarkable characters, from the the first letter carriers through Ben Franklin’s days, when postmasters worked out of their homes and post roads cut new paths through the wilderness, to stamp-collecting FDR, to the revolutionaries who challenged USPS’s monopoly on mail, to the renegade union members who brought the system — and the country — to a halt in the 1970s.

Buy tickets/get more info now