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Last Update: 2007-04-04
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Benjamin Franklin founded the postal system way back at the time of the Revolution, but for years, the mail came to a post office where it was picked up by the customer. Sometime around 1863, free deliver in the cities was established, at which time the familar mailman, corner mail boxes, and letter slots in the front doors of houses began. However, outside the city limits, mail still had to picked up in person at the main office. (I remember growing up in