Cool! Rural Mail Delivery Routes for Fairfax County
This is totally fascinating. It’s a map from 1912, published by the U.S. Post Office, showing the rural delivery routes for Fairfax County, back when things were really different and there were plenty of farms there....
Post Office Embraces “Electronic Mail” and E-COM
In 1982, the United States Post Office launched a new system dubbed E-COM (Electronic Computer-Originated Mail) as an attempt to adopt the nascent technology of electronic mail. Almost comical by today’s standard, but probably thought of...