US Post Office Established by Continental Congress
George Washington signed the Postal Service Act into law on February 20, 1792, creating a federal department that connected a fractured nation through a unified mail system. This foundation allowed the agency to evolve from a simple Post Office into a Cabinet-level entity under John McLean's leadership and later Andrew Jackson's cabinet inclusion, before Nixon's 1970 act finally reorganized it into the independent Postal Service we know today.
July 26, 1775
251 years ago
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