{"id":7339,"date":"2026-09-22T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7339"},"modified":"2025-12-17T11:53:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T16:53:59","slug":"united-states-post-office-1789","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7339","title":{"rendered":"United States Post Office Was Created in 1789"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>United States Post Office and the office of Postmaster\u00a0<\/strong><strong>General were created by Congress in 1789<\/strong>. Today the Post Office employs 700,000 people to deliver 213 billion items per year. It &#8220;delivers mail by planes, hovercraft, trains, trucks, cars, boats, ferries, helicopters, subways, bicycles, mules and feet.&#8221; It employs about 68,000 veterans, making it one of the largest employers of veterans. Children could find some interesting fun facts about the post office at <a href=\"https:\/\/about.usps.com\/who-we-are\/postal-facts\/fun-facts.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Post Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13457\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13457\" class=\"wp-image-13457 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Mail-deliverer-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"1940 Rural Postman Delivering Mail along Creeks and Roads near Jackson, Kentucky\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13457\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1940 Rural Postman Delivering Mail along Creeks and Roads near Jackson, Kentucky<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States Post Office and the office of Postmaster\u00a0General were created by Congress in 1789. Today the Post Office employs 700,000 people to deliver 213 billion items per year. It &#8220;delivers mail by planes, hovercraft, trains, trucks, cars, boats, ferries, helicopters, subways, bicycles, mules and feet.&#8221; It employs about 68,000 veterans, making it one of <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7339' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4874,1688,5880,1687],"class_list":["post-7339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4874","tag-postmaster-general","tag-september-22","tag-united-states-post-office","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7339"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29735,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7339\/revisions\/29735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}