{"id":11535,"date":"2015-07-05T10:05:05","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T15:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=11535"},"modified":"2015-07-09T15:40:37","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T20:40:37","slug":"profile-america-mail-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/07\/05\/profile-america-mail-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Profile America &#8211; Mail Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Census Bureau &#8211; Sunday, July 5th.<sup><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/sup>The month of July has put its stamp on U.S. Postal Service history. In early July 1847, the first Post Office-issued stamps went on sale.. Before then, there were no uniform stamps \u2014 a haphazard system of private postal services around the country had issued their own. Less exaltedly, the first drive-up mailbox was installed in 1927 in Houston. And in 1963, the postal service introduced the ZIP code to help speed mail service. That year, Americans sent nearly 68 billion pieces of mail. Lately, the Postal Service handles 155 billion pieces of mail annually, while nearly a half-million Americans work in 9,000 private courier and express delivery establishments. You can find more facts about America from the U.S. Census Bureau online at &lt;<a id=\"anch_191\" href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/\">www.census.gov<\/a>&gt;.<\/p>\n<p>Hear audio:<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><span class=\"attachmentIcon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/etc\/designs\/census\/images\/audio.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" \/><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a id=\"anch_193\" class=\"attachmentAnchor\" href=\"http:\/\/broadcast.census.gov\/pio\/audio\/profile_america\/pa150705.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" name=\".mp3 format\">.mp3 format<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>[&lt;1.0 MB]<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span class=\"attachmentIcon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/etc\/designs\/census\/images\/audio.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" \/><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a id=\"anch_194\" class=\"attachmentAnchor\" href=\"http:\/\/broadcast.census.gov\/pio\/audio\/profile_america\/pa150705.wav\" target=\"_blank\" name=\".wav\">.wav<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>[&lt;1.0 MB]<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/census-bureau.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11536\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/census-bureau.jpg\" alt=\"census bureau\" width=\"410\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/census-bureau.jpg 410w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/census-bureau-300x115.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Census Bureau &#8211; Sunday, July 5th.\u00a0The month of July has put its stamp on U.S. Postal Service history. In early July 1847, the first Post Office-issued stamps went on sale.. Before then, there were no uniform stamps \u2014 a haphazard system of private postal services around the country had issued their own. Less exaltedly, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-section","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11538,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11535\/revisions\/11538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}