Now, thanks to years of dogged fundraising on both sides of the Atlantic, Benjamin ... deputy postmaster general for North America and commercial agent for several of the Colonies, Franklin ...

Before he helped launch a revolution, Benjamin Franklin was colonial ... Grand master of the Masons, Pennsylvania. The deputy postmaster general of North America and, eventually, postmaster ...

But He Was The First Postmaster General Of The United States In 1753, the British Crown made Benjamin Franklin the postmaster of all 13 colonies, a post he held for two decades. And in July 1755 ...

President Trump is considering a plan to merge the Postal Service into the Commerce Department. Elon Musk has suggested the ...

At the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin (who had been appointed Postmaster General in 1775 by the Second Continental Congress) suggested that, in addition to establishing post roads ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin ... Revolution was] that Dr. Franklin's electrical rod smote the earth and out sprung General Washington. That Franklin ...

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy signed an ... U.S Postal Service — the 250-year-old agency that was first led by Benjamin Franklin — DeJoy continues to push his 10-year “Delivering for ...

The postmaster general has agreed to work with ... to privatize the agency that traces its roots back to 1775 and Benjamin Franklin, the first postmaster general. Carrying signs with slogans ...

DeJoy became the nation’s 75th postmaster general — a job first occupied by none other than Benjamin Franklin — in the thick of the Covid-19 pandemic, amid tensions over the role of mail-in ...

The U.S. Postal Service has been around since 1775, when Benjamin Franklin was the first postmaster general, earlier than the United States itself. Now, with major cutbacks being seen across all ...

Nearly 100 postal workers and union supporters rallied at the Des Moines Post Office against a feared move to privatize the U.S. Postal Service ...