#us postal service

[without-ado]

The U.S. Postal Service issued Priority Mail Express stamps Jan. 22, 2024, highlighting  the iconic images of the Carina Nebula and the Pillars of Creation from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope l NASA

#nasa #us postal service #stamps #priority mail express stamps #astrophotography #carina nebula #pillars of creation #astronomy #webb #james webb space telescope #JWST #space #universe #cosmic cliffs

[top-scar-maverick]

Last season vintage beef made card game and then it became real

Now pearl etho and tango have made stamos of all the hermits and i want them to be real

@pearlescentmoo 🫱🫲 @uspostalserviceofficial

#hermitcraft 10 #hermitcraft #pearlescentmoon #tangotek #etho slab #ethoslab #us postal service

[angst-is-love-angst-is-life]

Ok ok

So imagine a universe where Thawne was just more chill (honestly I don’t know how else to say it so that’s what I’m going with) and instead of trying to destroy his life, he’s just mildly antagonistic to Barry

Now imagine him going to this link and ordering hundreds of boxes to Barry’s address

#my initial thought was that it’s free so he can be like ‘Ha I didn’t break any laws this time Barry :)’ #I remember a post going around about how you could do this to someone #anyways #might do this in enemy of my enemy #you’ll see #that fic will become more and more crack as it goes on #eobard thawne #reverse flash #barry allen #the flash #us postal service #crack #my posts #fanfiction ideas? #the flash fanfiction ideas? #links #free boxes

[wachinyeya]

Hundreds of new USPS Sorting and Delivery Centers to be equipped with infrastructure to power more than 66,000 USPS electric delivery vehicles

Agency also debuted newly purchased commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) electric delivery vehicles

Rollout of nation’s largest electric vehicle fleet part of 10-year Delivering for America® plan to modernize the nation’s postal network

#us postal service #good news #electric cars #electric vehicles #postal service #snail mail #mailing #usa

[mrkapao]

50th Anniversary ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ U.S. Postal Stamps

#dungeons & dragons #dungeons and dragons #d&d #d&d 5e #dnd #dnd 5e #ttrpg #us postal service #us postal service stamps #stamps #gamers #geeks #nerds #suit up! geek out! #suit up geek out #d&d stamps #dnd stamps

[marxman1]

#workers struggles #wsws #socialist equality party #class war #capitalism #fascisim #palestine #palestinian uprising #gaza strip #gaza #west bank #israeli apartheid #israeli war crimes #israeli occupation #zionism #postal workers #rank and file committees #us postal service #ethnic cleansing #genocide

[thefrankshow]

The Secret Lives Of Mailmen

#the secret lives of mailmen #seinfeld #newman #trump is an idiot #us postal service

[pepperoniparadise]

*66

#https://info.mysticstamp.com/this-day-in-history-september-24-1966/ #us postal service #american #folklore #series #postage stamps #1966 #johnny appleseed #davy crockett #daniel boone #tom sawyer #grandma moses #the legend of sleepy hollow #us postage

[steve-rogers-new-york]

Postage Rates 1925-1945

My Discord brought to my attention that despite collection stamps from this period, I’ve yet to do a post on US postage. So here’s a brief overview of the cost of postage.

Letters and Packages

After the end of World War I, Congress dropped postage rates back to their pre-war prices. Letters and packages cost 2c per ounce. Postcards were either 1c or 2c. In 1932 the rate went back up to 3c per ounce again.

The rate for postcards appears to have varied from 1c to 2c throughout the period.

International

Based on the Foreign Air Mail Service Bulletin USPO from 1938, the rate for international postage varied by destination. For Air Mail they ranged from 6c (per once) to Canada to up to 70c (per 1/2 ounce) to Australia. There was also the cheaper option of postage via Steamship. Have a look at the document, it’s pretty interesting and has heaps of extra information! From 1940, Air Mail rates were published in The Official Foreign Air Mail Guide monthly (later quarterly). Here is one from December 1941.

U.S. Army Postal Service

The U.S. Military Postal Service (MPS) oversaw and controlled all military postal assets, both domestically and overseas. The Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Coast Guard, and Air Force each had their own divisions, and were responsible for the costs, manpower, and facilities needed within their department. An example of an Army letter can be see in Image 5′s postmark. You’ll see that the original location has been replaced by a generic “U.S. Army Postal Service,” assumedly as a mean of censoring the location of troops. You’ll also notice that a second address has been included in the top-left. I wasn’t able to find any material on this, but I would assume that this is a local return address, allowing the letter to be returned to sender by way of the appropriate base depot. Again, if you’re interested in more on this topic let me know and I’ll do a deeper dive!

Postmarks

As an aside, I love looking at the postmarks! They not only tell you where the letter originated and the sate sent, but they also vary in design and content. I particularly enjoy the one in Image 1 which reminds people to “ADDRESS YOUR MAIL TO STREET AND NUMBER” which says a lot about the culture of previous mail addressing, and that there was a recent change and need to specify this. Other variants include wartime reminders to buy War Bonds and event specific onces for the 1939 New York World’s fair. If you want a post on this topic please let me know, I’d be happy to!

Image Sources I’ve included some scan from my own collection of postcards and letters that I use for Patreon perks in this post. They show some of the stamps and postmarks used for a range of destinations.

If you want more in the topic, my full research notes on all topics are available for all $3+ Patreon patrons!

This post has been sponsored by my much loved and long-time Patreon supporter Joanna Daniels. She and I would like to dedicate the post to the loving memory of her mother Joan Daniels. She will be sorely missed.

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[mitigatingchaos]

Why Am I Not Surprised?

Sadly, the US Postal Service has been on a downward spiral for many years and it’s only getting worse.  I will spare you my stories of woe, one of which I am currently dealing with, but when the Post Office puts out messages about not sending checks via the mail, things must be pretty darn bad. Here is a blog video that I came across.   Steve provides a very intriguing commentary that is worth…

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#inefficiency at the US Post Office #US Postal Service #Youtube

[nando161mando]

#newyorktimes #nytimes #nyt crossword #nyt connections #nyt #unitedstatesofhypocrisy #usa #america #unitedstateofamerica #united nations high commissioner for refugees #united states #unitedsnakes #us government #us govt #usgov #us politics #us policing #us postal service #us portugal tax #uspol #america is fucking weird #amerika #amerikkka #make america gay again #fuck maga #magats #maga #conservative comics make the left look so cool #working class #class warfare

[without-ado]

Charles M. Schulz Museum

#the peanuts #charles schulz #charlie brown #comics #art #snoopy #peanuts characters #cartoon #cartoons #stamps #us postal service

[trollprincess]

So about a month and a half or so ago, I ordered a few enamel pins for my purse. One of them, a “binosaur” (a dino in bi pride colors), was coming from Singapore, but it wasn’t like it was an emergency or anything. It could wait.

Well, it got to New York City and promptly sat on customs for at least three weeks. That’s a bit much from my experience, so I went down to my local post office to ask if they knew anything or could do anything. The guy I spoke with was very helpful, but said it was on a different shipping system so there wasn’t much he could do, but he’d “keep an eye on it.” I just shrugged and went home. It was just a pin, and I figured him saying he’d keep an eye on it was him being polite.

Then today I get a call from him after two weeks saying he’s actually *opened a case* for this missing pin, and he’d been checking for it since I stopped in but he still hadn’t seen it move. He was closing the case, but he’d still check when he could to see if anything popped up.

I mean … it was JUST a pin.

Anyway, fuck Louis DeJoy, may he finally get fucking fired one of these days, and be nice to your postal workers because they’re working their ass off all the time, but especially right now.

#us postal service #fuck Louis DeJoy

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from E&E News:

The House Oversight and Reform Committee today approved legislation to throw out a U.S. Postal Service study used to justify the agency's decision to replace much of its aging delivery fleet with gasoline-powered vehicles.

Lawmakers voted 28-15 along party lines to bring H.R. 7682 to the House floor for full consideration. The “Ensuring an Accurate Postal Fleet Electrification Act,” introduced by Oversight and Reform Chair Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), would invalidate the environmental impact statement USPS conducted as part of its agreement to replace as many as 165,000 delivery trucks with 90 percent gas-powered vehicles.

USPS last year signed a 10-year, $11.3 billion purchase contract with Wisconsin-based Oshkosh Defense LLC for the vehicles. The agency’s environmental impact analysis is the subject of three separate lawsuits, which contend the study violated the National Environmental Policy Act and relied on faulty data.

“We are in the middle of a climate crisis. The Postal Service should be leading the charge to reduce carbon emissions and green its fleet,” Maloney said during the markup. “Locking itself into gas-guzzling vehicles for at least another two decades is bad for the environment, bad for our health and bad for business.”

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#US Postal Service #post office #post office vehicles

[adtothebone]

Imagine the freakout from the far-right conspiracy crowd had ZIP (Zone Improvement Plan) codes and Mr. ZIP been introduced in 2020 instead of 1963.

(Directories found in a hamper of mostly cookbooks won at today’s auction. I also now have instructions for a basement fallout shelter.)

#auction #vintage #antique #history #zip #zip code #mail #post office #us postal service #mr. zip #zip codes

[indizombie]

Cities and the federal government can also shape strategic adoption of EVs by working to replace fleet and transit vehicles first.  This recently happened in Antelope Valley, California, where the local transit authority became the first in the country to replace its fleet of diesel buses. Since its 87 new electric buses, vans and coaches are cheaper to operate and maintain than dirtier diesel buses, the city is now using the savings to expand public transit and build a solar field to power the fleet. Similarly, in December the U.S. Postal Service committed to buying at least 45,000 electric delivery trucks and to explore how to electrify its entire fleet.

Tim Lyndon, ‘The EV Revolution Brings Environmental Uncertainty at Every Turn’, EcoWatch

#EcoWatch #Tim Lyndon #strategic adoption of EVs #California #local transit authority #public transit #solar field #US Postal Service #electric delivery trucks