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A History of the United States Post Office to the Year 1829 /

Rich, Wesley Everett

A History of the United States Post Office to the Year 1829 / Wesley Everett Rich. - Reprint 2014 - 1 online resource (190 p.) - Harvard Economic Studies ; 27 .

Frontmatter -- INTRODUCTION -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- CHAPTER I THE BEGINNINGS OF POSTAL SERVICE IN THE COLONIES -- CHAPTER II THE COLONIAL POST UNDER NEALE’S PATENT 1692-1707 -- CHAPTER III DEVELOPMENT OF THE COLONIAL POST AS A BRANCH OF THE BRITISH POST OFFICE, 1707-1775 -- CHAPTER IV THE EARLY DAYS OF THE AMERICAN POST OFFICE, 1775-1789 -- CHAPTER V EXTENSION OF POSTAL SERVICE, 1789-1829 -- CHAPTER VI THE POST OFFICE AS A PUBLIC SERVICE 1790-1829 -- CHAPTER VII INTERNAL ORGANIZATION OF THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT -- CHAPTER VIII POLITICS IN THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT -- CHAPTER IX FINANCIAL OPERATIONS OF THE POST OFFICE -- CHAPTER Χ POSTAL POLICIES, 1639-1829 -- APPENDIX A BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON THE POSTMASTERS GENERAL -- APPENDIX В BIBLIOGRAPHY -- APPENDIX С TABLES

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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9780674431690 9780674435414

10.4159/harvard.9780674435414 doi


Handel, Kommunikation, Verkehr.
Postal service.
Postal service -- United States -- History.
United States. Post Office Department.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Corporate & Business History.