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Timeline of postal history
This is a timeline of significant events in postal history, including dates relating to postage stamps.
- 1639 - Richard Fairbanks' tavern in Boston named repository for overseas mail
- 1830 - US Office of Instructions and Mail Depredations established, later Office of the Chief Postal Inspector
- 1838 - Railroads designated post routes by U Congress
- 1941 - US Highway post offices
- 1942 - US V-mail
- 1943 - US Postal zoning system in 124 major post offices
- 1945 May - provisional stamps issued for Austria
- 1946 - first stamps of independent Jordan
- 1948 - British postal administration takes over in Bahrain
- 1948 - US Parcel post international air service
- 1948 - US Parcel post domestic air service
- 1949 July 18 - first stamps of Ryukyu Islands
- 1970 - MAILGRAM
- 1970 - US Postal Reorganization Act
- 1970 - US Express Mail, experimental
- 1971 - United States Postal Service began operation; Postmaster General no longer in Cabinet
- 1971 - Labor contract achieved through collective bargaining for the first time in history of US federal government
- 1971 - US Star routes changed to highway contract routes
- 1971 - US National service standards established: overnight delivery of 95% of airmail within 600]] miles and 95% of First-Class Mail within local areas
- 1971 July 29 - first stamps of Bangladesh
- 1972 - US Stamps by mail
- 1972 - US Passport applications accepted in post offices
- 1973 - US National service standards expanded to include second-day delivery of parcel post traveling up to 150]] miles, with one-day delivery time added for each additional 400]] miles
- 1973 June 1 - first stamps of Belize
- 1974 - Highway post offices terminated
- 1974 - First satellite transmission of MAILGRAMs
- 1975 November 11 - first stamp of independent Angola
- 1975 December 8 - first stamps of renamed Benin
- 1976 - Post office class categories eliminated
- 1976 - Discount for presorted First-Class Mail
- 1977 - US Airmail abolished as a separate rate category
- 1977 - US Express Mail, permanent new class of service
- 1977 - Final run of US railroad post office on June 30
- 1978 - US Discount for presorted second-class mail
- 1978 - US Postage stamps and other philatelic items copyrighted
- 1979 - US Discount for presorted bulk third-class mail
- 1979 - US Postal Career Executive Service (PCES)
- 1979 July 12 - first stamps of Kiribati
- 1979 - Canal Zone transferred to Panama along with postal service
- 1980 - US New standards require envelopes and postcards to be at least 3 1/2" high and 5" long to be mailable
- 1980 - INTELPOST (high-speed international electronic message service)
- 1981 - US Controlled circulation classification discontinued
- 1981 - US Discount for First-Class Mail presorted to carrier routes
- 1982 - US Automation begins with installation of optical character readers
- 1982 - US E-COM (Electronic Computer-Originated Mail, electronic message service with hard copy delivery)
- 1983 - US ZIP + 4
- 1983 - Ended public service subsidy from US federal government
- 1984 - US Integrated retail terminals automate postal windows
- 1984 November 21 - first stamps of Burkina Faso
- 1985 - Jackie Strange, first female Deputy US Postmaster General
- 1985 - US E-COM terminated
- 1986 - International Priority Airmail
- 1986 - US Postal Service realigned; field divisions created
- 1986 January 1 - first stamps of Aruba
- 1987 - US Small parcel and bundle sorters
- 1987 - US Stamps by phone
- 1987 - US Multiline optical character readers ordered
- 1988 - US Inspector General's Act extends duties of Chief Postal Inspector
- 1989 - Universal Postal Union Congress in Washington, DC
- 1990 - US Wide area barcode readers
- 1990 - US Easy Stamp, allowing purchase of stamps through computers
- 1990 - US International business reply service
- 1991 - US Independent measurement of First-Class Mail service
- 1992 - US Remote barcoding system
- 1992 - USPS Reorganization: regions, divisions and management sectional centers replaced by area and district offices for customer service and mail processing
- 1992 - US Stamps sold through automatic teller machines
- 1992 March 20 - first stamps of Belarus
- 1992 March 26 - Axerbaijan resumes issuing stamps
- 1992 - first stamps of Kazakhstan
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