February 17, 1691 - Thomas Neale received a 21-year
grant from the British Crown for a North American postal service;
appointed Governor Andrew Hamilton of New Jersey as his Deputy
Postmaster General; Neale's franchise cost him only 80 cents a
year but was no bargain; he died heavily in debt, in 1699, after
assigning his interests in America to Andrew Hamilton and another
Englishman, R. West; 1707- British Government bought
the rights to the North American postal service from West and the
widow of Andrew Hamilton; 1730 - Alexander
Spotswood, a former lieutenant governor of Virginia, became Deputy
Postmaster General for America; 1737 - appointed
Benjamin Franklin as postmaster of Philadelphia.
January 20, 1838 - The first Travelling Post Office
in Britain, a converted horsebox on the Grand Junction Railway in
which the mail could be sorted, left London for Birmingham; late
19th century - TPOs were specially timed to coincide with the
ships which carried foreign mail; 1855 - trains solely devoted to
the carriage and sorting of mail were introduced; January 2004 -
last TPO trains ran.
May 6, 1840 - The first adhesive postage stamp was
sold in Great Britain. The "penny black" and "twopenny blue"
stamps showed the profile of Queen Victoria.
February 15, 1842 - Adhesive postage stamps were used
for the first time, in New York City.
November 1, 1864 - The U.S. Post Office introduced
the money order.
March 3, 1885 - The U.S. Post Office began offering
special delivery for first-class mail.
October 1, 1885 - Special Delivery mail service
began in the United States.
October 1, 1896 - The U.S. Post Office established
Rural Free Delivery.
April 16, 1900 - The first books of U.S. postage
stamps were issued.
May 13, 1918 - First U.S. airmail stamps
issued (24 cents ).
May 15, 1918 - U.S. airmail began service between
Washington, Philadelphia and New York.
March 3, 1919 - First U.S. international airmail
service began, flown 74 miles from Seattle, Washington to
Victoria, B.C., Canada.
July 29, 1920 - First transcontinental airmail
flight relay from New York to San Francisco; 1911 -
Interstate carriage of mail by airplane was sanctioned between
Garden City and Mineola, NY. Earle H. Ovington, first U. S.
mail pilot; 31 of the first 40 pilots hired to fly mail
killed in crashes; 1924 - Regular transcontinental
airmail service began.
May 5, 1943 - Postmaster General Frank C Walker
invents Postal Zone System.
June 22, 1946 - Jet airplanes were used to transport
mail for the first time.
July 1, 1963 - The U.S. Post Office began using the
5-digit ZIP Code system.
January 3, 1995
- The Postal Service raised the price of a first-class stamp to 32
cents.
(James Burn and Company ltd.), Lionel Seabrook Darley (1959).
Bookbinding Then and Now; A Survey of the First Hundred and
Seventy-Eight Years of James Burn & Company. (London, UK: Faber and
Faber, 126 p.). Burn (James) and Company, ltd.; Bookbinding--History.
(Copying), Barbara Rhodes & William Wells Streeter (1999).
Before
Photocopying: The Art & History of Mechanical Copying, 1780-1938: A Book
in Two Parts. (New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 495 p.). Copying
processes -- History.
(Radar), Robert Buderi (1996).
The Invention That Changed the
World: How a Small Group of Radar Pioneers Won the Second World War and
Launched a Technological Revolution. (New York, NY: Simon &
Schuster, 575 p.). Radar--History; World War, 1939-1945--Radar.
Tim Clark and Carl Kay (2005).
Saying Yes to Japan: How Outsiders Are Reviving a Trillion Dollar
Services Market. (New York, NY: Vertical, Inc., 224
p.). Entrepreneur and former Asiaweek Columnist ; Founder of
Japanese Language Services, Inc. (sold in 1998 to Lionbridge
Technologies).
J.V. Frederick (1940).
Ben Holladay, The Stagecoach King; A
Chapter in the Development of Transcontinental Transportation.
(Glendale, CA: The Arthur H. Clark Co., 334 p.). Holladay, Ben,
1819-1887; Express service--United States--History; Postal
service--United States--History; Coaching--United States.
Jonathan Gershuny (1978).
After Industrial Society?: The Emerging
Self-Service Economy. (London, UK: Macmillan, 181 p.). Self-service
(Economics); Service industries; Durable goods, Consumer.
Herbert G. Grubel and Michael A. Walker (1989). Service Industry
Growth: Causes and Effects. (Vancouver, BC: Fraser Institute, 279
p.). Service industries--Canada.
Robert C. Harvey (1994). The Art of the Funnies: An Aesthetic
History. (Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 252 p.).
Comic books, strips, etc.--History and criticism.
--- (1996).
The Art of the Comic Book: An Aesthetic History.
(Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 288 p.). Comic books,
strips, etc.--History and criticism; Popular culture--United States.
Robert C. Harvey; with contributions by Brian Walker, Richard V. West
(1998).
Children of the Yellow Kid: The Evolution of the American
Comic Strip. (Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 176 p.).
Comic books, strips, etc.--United States--History and criticism.
James L. Heskett (1986).
Managing in the Service Economy.
(Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 211 p.). Service
industries--Management.
Richard R. John (1995).
Spreading the News: The American Postal
System from Franklin to Morse. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, 369 p.). Postal service--United States--History.
Richard Normann (2000).
Service Management: Strategy and
Leadership in Service Business. (New York, NY: Wiley, 234 p. [3rd
ed.]). Service industries--Management.
Wesley Everett Rich (1924).
The History of the United States Post
Office to the Year 1829. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
190 p.). United States. Post Office Dept.; Postal service--United
States--History.
Dorothy I. Riddle (1986).
Service-Led Growth: The Role of the
Service Sector in World Development. (New York, NY: Praeger, 289
p.). Service industries; Economic development.
Ronald Kent Shelp (1981).
Beyond Industrialization: Ascendancy of
the Global Service Economy. (New York, NY: Praeger, 242 p.). Service
industries; Industrial policy.
Thomas Joseph Weiss (1975).
The Service Sector in the United
States, 1839 through 1899. (New York, NY: Arno Press, 247 p.).
Service industries--United States--History.
_________________________________________________
LINKS
Business Services
Business Services
