{"id":19755,"date":"2017-06-07T08:10:13","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T13:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=19755"},"modified":"2017-06-07T08:10:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T13:10:13","slug":"5-unique-ways-usps-has-delivered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2017\/06\/07\/5-unique-ways-usps-has-delivered\/","title":{"rendered":"5 unique ways USPS has delivered"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-thumbnail link-fullfeature\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-twentyfourteen-full-width size-twentyfourteen-full-width wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/List0606_large-story.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/List0606_large-story.jpg 900w, https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/List0606_large-story-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/List0606_large-story-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/List0606_large-story-120x80.jpg 120w\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"link-caption\">Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield, fourth from left, postal officials and U.S. Navy personnel watch the loading of &#8220;missile mail&#8221; into the Navy submarine USS Barbero.<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<p>6\/6\/17 &#8211; The Postal Service always finds a way to deliver to its customers, no matter where they live. &#8220;The list&#8221;\u009d looks at five unique methods that have been used to deliver mail through history.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Stagecoaches.<\/strong> Delivery by <a href=\"https:\/\/postalmuseum.si.edu\/exhibits\/current\/binding-the-nation\/moving-west\/stagecoaches-and-mud-wagons.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>horse and wagon<\/em><\/a> began in the 1700s and continued into the early 1900s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Balloons.<\/strong> The first official <a href=\"https:\/\/postalmuseum.si.edu\/stampstakeflight\/firstusairmail.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>air mail delivery<\/em><\/a> in the United States was by hot air balloon in 1859, when balloonist John Wise completed a 30-mile demonstration flight from Lafayette to Crawfordsville, IN.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Railway Post Offices.<\/strong> From the 1860s to the 1970s, postal clerks aboard <a href=\"http:\/\/postalmuseumblog.si.edu\/railway-post-office\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>trains<\/em><\/a> sorted mail traveling between cities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Dog sleds.<\/strong> During the winter months of the 1890s Alaskan gold rush, <a href=\"https:\/\/postalmuseum.si.edu\/gold\/mailcarriers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>dog sleds<\/em><\/a> had the difficult task of delivering mail to traveling miners. Dog sled delivery ended in 1963 as small aircraft could carry larger, heavier loads more quickly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Guided missiles.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <i>&#8220;<\/i><\/span><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/postalmuseum.si.edu\/collections\/object-spotlight\/regulus-mail.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Missile mail&#8221;<\/em><\/a> was tested in 1959. Two mail containers replaced a nuclear warhead fired from a submarine to a Florida Naval station. The experimental delivery was intended partly to demonstrate the &#8220;great progress being made in guided missilery.&#8221;\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/\">USPS News Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield, fourth from left, postal officials and U.S. Navy personnel watch the loading of &#8220;missile mail&#8221; into the Navy submarine USS Barbero. 6\/6\/17 &#8211; The Postal Service always finds a way to deliver to its customers, no matter where they live. &#8220;The list&#8221;\u009d looks at five unique methods that have been used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19755","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=19755"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19758,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19755\/revisions\/19758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}