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005			20180722222822.0
008			151012s2016 nyuaf b 001 0 eng d
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020			_a9780802124586 _q(hardcover)
020			_a0802124585 _q(hardcover)
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092			_a383.4973 _bL581
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aLeonard, Devin, _eauthor. _9306457
245	1	0	_aNeither snow nor rain : _ba history of the United States Postal Service / _cDevin Leonard.
246	3	0	_aHistory of the United States Postal Service
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bGrove Press, _c[2016]
264		4	_c©2016
300			_axviii, 316 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations (some color) ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [265]-299) and index.
505	0		_aPrologue -- The founding father -- Interlopers I -- Comstockery -- A businessman at the Post Office -- Into the sky -- A stamp collector at the White House -- Mount Semrow -- The day the mail stopped -- Interlopers II -- Going postal -- You've got mail! -- "Thank God for Amazon" -- Epilogue.
520			_aFounded by Benjamin Franklin, USPS was the information network that bound far-flung Americans together, fostered a common culture, and helped American business to prosper. A first class stamp remains one of the greatest bargains of all time, and yet, the USPS is slowly vanishing. Critics say it is slow and archaic. Mail volume is down. The workforce is shrinking. Post offices are closing.This is a multifaceted history, full of remarkable characters, from the stamp-collecting FDR, to the revolutionaries who challenged USPS’s monopoly on mail, to the renegade union members who brought the system--and the country--to a halt in the 1970s. An exciting and engrossing read, this is the first major history of the USPS in over fifty years.
610	2	0	_aUnited States Postal Service _xHistory. _9306458
650		0	_aPostal service _zUnited States _xHistory. _9306459
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