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JAMES H. BRUNS is founding Director of the National Postal Museum at the Smithsonian Institution. He has curated the Smithsonian's National Philatelic Collection since 1984, and is a director of the Postal History Foundation. He is the author of Mail on the Move and Horse-Drawn Mail.
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HISTORY OF THE POSTAL SERVICE.
Post Offices Across a Young Nation.
Postal Service Expands with the Nation.
The Post Office and the Press.
A Growing Need for Postal Facilities.
The Expanding System.
Postal Service in the Civil War Years.
New Delivery Service.
Political Patronage and Post Offices.
"Uncle Jerry's" Legacy.
Why Some Post Offices Perished.
Post Office Names.
Common Architecture and the Supervising Architects.
Types of Post Offices.
Major Building Sprees.
How Services Affected Design.
The Original Shop-at-Home Club.
Best of Times, Worst of Times.
Reinventing Government: Transforming America's Postal System.
REGIONAL GUIDE TO AMERICAN POST OFFICES.
New England.
Mid-Atlantic.
South.
Midwest.
West.
Information Sources.
Further Reading.
Illustration Credits.
Index.
