United States. General Post Office
United States. General Post Office
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Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
Collection Membership(s)
Variants
United States. Department of the Treasury. General Post Office United States. Post-Master General
Later Established Forms
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Earlier Established Forms
Sources
found: Its Tables of the port of all single letters carried by post in the northern district of North America, 1775: t.p. (B. Franklin, post-master general; name not given)
found: Cullinan, G. The Post Office Department, 1968: p. 26, etc. (General Post Office, term first used for U.S. postal service, so called in first report of postmaster general to the Congress, 1790; part of Dept. of the Treasury until 1829; Post Office Department not used until 1825)
found: MWA/NAIP files (hdg.: United States. Postmaster General; usage: Post-master General; Postmaster General; Post-Master-General; note: the position of Postmaster General for the United Colonies, created in July 1775, existed separate from any post office agency, dept., or office until 1789, when a General Post Office was est. with the Postmaster General in charge)
notfound: LC man. auth. cd. (hdg.: United States. Post Office Dept.; regularly used on correspondence of the postmaster general from 1823 (sic) and after)
Change Notes
1988-03-15: new
2013-03-12: revised
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