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1991 Ex-postal worker Joseph Harris kills 4 postal workers
1978 U.S. Postal Service and unions agree on a contract averting mail strike 1977 Postal employee David Berkowitz arrested in Yonkers, New York, accused of being "Son of Sam" 44 caliber killer 1970 Mail service paralyzed by 1st major postal strike 1963 U.S. postal service institutes zip code system, Zone Improvement Plan 1959 Great Britain starts using postal codes 1943 Postmaster General Frank C Walker invents Postal Zone System 1933 Delivery of 1st singing telegram (Postal Telegram Co New York City) 1925 German Postal Minister A Hofle resigns due to corruption 1918 1st airmail postal service (New York, Philadelphia and Washington D.C.) 1916 Postal check and Girodienst establishes 1915 Moe Biller, New York City, labor union officer, AFL-CIO, Postal Workers 1915 Ron Smith, union leader, British Postal Workers 1911 U.S. postal savings bank inaugurated 1910 U.S. postal savings stamps 1st issued 1883 James Cutler patents postal mail chute 1883 Inland postal service begins in Great Britain 1882 Wallis Clark, born in Essex, England, actress, Postal Inspector 1875 Universal Postal Union established 1874 World Postal Union forms in Bern, Switzerland 1873 Postal cards sold in San Francisco for 1st time 1873 1st U.S. postal card issued 1869 Free postal delivery formally inaugurated 1868 Standard uniform approved for postal carriers 1861 Postmaster General Blair announces end of postal connection with South 1792 U.S. postal service created; postage 6 cents -12 cents, depending on distance 1748 Amsterdam establishes municipal postal service 1691 Thomas Neale granted British patent for American postal service 1673 Postal service between New York and Boston inaugurated 1464 French King Louis XI forms postal service |
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