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Encyclopedia > Post Office Department

The Post Office Department was the former name of the United States Postal Service when it was a cabinet department. It was headed by the United States Postmaster General.


The Postal Service Act signed by President George Washington on February 20, 1792 established the Department.


During the Civil War, postal services in the Confederacy were provided by the Confederate Post-office Department, headed by Postmaster General John Henninger Reagan.


The Postal Service Reorganization Act signed by President Richard Nixon on August 12, 1970, replaced the cabinet-level Post Office Department with the government-owned corporation, the United States Postal Service. The Act took effect on July 1, 1971.


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United States Post Office Department - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (154 words)
The Post Office Department was the former name of the United States Postal Service when it was a Cabinet department.
During the Civil War, postal services in the Confederacy were provided by the Confederate Post-office Department, headed by Postmaster General John Henninger Reagan.
The Postal Reorganization Act signed by President Richard Nixon on August 12, 1970, replaced the cabinet-level Post Office Department with the government-owned corporation, the United States Postal Service.
United States Postal Service - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (5472 words)
In 1971, the department was reorganized as a quasi-independent agency of the federal government and acquired its present name.
The Department of Defense and the USPS jointly operate a postal system to deliver mail for the military; this is known as the Army Post Office (for Army and Air Force postal facilities) and Fleet Post Office (for Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard postal facilities).
A branch or post office branch, a postal facility that is not the main post office and that is outside the corporate limits of the community.
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