United States Postal Service

URI(s)

• http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80013137

Variants

• U.S.P.S.
• U.S. Postal Service
• United States. Postal Service
• United States. United States Postal Service
• US Postal Service
• USPS

Identifies LC/NAF RWO

• http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/n80013137

Identifies RWO

• https://isni.org/isni/0000000406304902

• Associated Language

  English

• Field of Activity

  Postal service

Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

• http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/LC%7Cn++80013137#skos:Concept

Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

• United States Postal Service
• United States Postal Service Label from public data source Wikidata

Earlier Established Forms

• United States. Post Office Department

Sources

• found: U.S. Cong. Sen. Comm. on Post Office and Civil Service. Postal reorganization, 1970.
• found: Conkey, K. The postal precipice, c1983:t.p. (U.S. Postal Service)
• found: Wikipedia, October 27, 2015(under United States Postal Service: the Postal Reorganization Act, signed by President Richard Nixon on August 12, 1970, replaced the cabinet-level Post Office Department with the independent United States Postal Service, and took effect on July 1, 1971)

Instance Of

• MADS/RDF CorporateName
• MADS/RDF Authority
• SKOS Concept

Scheme Membership(s)

• Library of Congress Name Authority File

Collection Membership(s)

• Names Collection - Authorized Headings
• LC Names Collection - General Collection

Change Notes

• 1980-03-25: new
• 2015-10-29: revised

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• SKOS - RDF/XML
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