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    Stamps from the US Parcel Post set of 1912-1913

    Sep 09, 2022 3 minutes

    nation with a land area of more than 3 million square miles (40 times that of Great Britain) inevitably faced huge challenges – logistical, economic, social and political – when contemplating the this introduction of a domestic parcel post service. The question had leapfrogged to the front of the US Government’s agenda as early as 1878, when the Universal Postal Union proposed an international parcel post system which many countries around the world enthusiastically agreed to support and implement as their economies expanded. Great Britain, for example, took a mere four

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