ISSUE 184 - April 3, 2026 - Stamp News Online Magazine
The Best of Mekeel’s:
The United States Post Office
by Sterling T. Dow
If you should visit the great New York City post office, you may read, over the entrance, “Neither snow, nor rain, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from their appointed rounds”. Written by Herodotus twenty-four hundred years ago in comment of a service of a king of Persia, far removed from the conditions of today, this inscription fairly indicates the spirit of the world’s greatest enterprise—the United States Post Office.
We are inclined to speak of business and commercial enterprises as though they were the same thing, and so they are ordinarily. However, in the United States Post Office we have a tremendous business, the primary object of which is not to make money but to . . .
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