The U.S. Postal Service on Wednesday marked its upcoming 250th anniversary with the release of new commemorative stamps, including an exclusive, modernized version of the nation’s first 5-cent stamp ...

The one government agency that still reaches nearly every American daily — undeterred by rain, sleet, snow or even gloom of night — turns 250 on Saturday. Established in 1775, when the Second ...

The battle for American Independence was underway. One way Americans kept in touch during what Thomas Paine called “the times that try men’s souls” was by horse-mounted mail delivery of communiqués ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Postmaster General David Steiner looks at a just unveiled Benjamin Franklin stamp to mark the 250th anniversary of postal ...

This photo provided by the Library of Congress shows people at the Nethers, Va., post office in Oct. 1935, during the Great Depression. Barry Stevens, portraying Benjamin Franklin, right, walks past a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The U.S. Postal Service on Wednesday marked ...