Presents a short history of the post office examining the ancient forms of mail delivery in Egypt, China, and Persia; Benjamin Franklin and the U.S. Postal System, the Pony Express, air mail, and more.
Presents the activities of Teddy Bear Postman on the day before Christmas, as he does his best to make sure everyone gets letters and packages before the holiday.
Describes the largest postal system in the world, consisting of more than 70,000 mail-handling centers which collectively process some 360 million pieces of mail every day.
Explains the role medical and scientific detectives played in investigating the spread of Anthrax in the United States in 2001, discussing how they helped in the investigation of the first official act of bioterrorism in America.
Presents a children's book for early readers that describes how mail is sorted and delivered to various houses and businesses and how mail is moved from city to city.
Moist von Lipwig, alias Alfred Spangler, is given a choice of either reviving the Ankh-Morpork Post Office or death, but getting the system up and running again proves to be a near-impossible task.
