postal service

Photographs and text describe how the United States Postal Service collects, processes, and delivers mail.

One winter John Thompson skis across the Sierra Nevada Mountains and creates a path upon which mail and people may travel, thus earning his nickname "Snowshoe Thompson.".

A portrait of the first Pony Express run as it gallops through the Old West.

A history of the postal service describing ways mail has been sent over the years.

A class visits the post office to mail their valentines and finds out about the work that is done there.

In 1914, because her family cannot afford a train ticket to her grandmother's town, May gets mailed and rides the mail car on the train to see her grandmother.

Describes the circumstances under which the Pony Express was founded, how it was organized, the rough territory and general hardships faced by the riders, and the technological innovation that ended it.

Mr. Griggs so loves his work at the post office that he thinks of it all the time and everything reminds him of it.

Everyone in the neighborhood says a fond farewell to Curtis, their beloved longtime letter carrier, on his last day of work.

In 1888, Owney, a stray terrier puppy, finds a home in the Albany, New York, post office and becomes its official mascot as he rides the mail train through the Adirondacks and beyond, criss-crossing the United States, into Canada and Mexico, and eventually traveling around the world by mail boat in 132 days.