On this episode of Our American Stories the United States Postal Service was established in It's hard to believe that a service that was created over centuries ago is still used by everyone every day But what's even more shocking is that there was actually a lot of debate about whether there should even be a federal post office in the first place Here's Daniel Piazza of the Smithsonian National Postal Museum with the story Support the show https www ouramericanstories com donate See omnystudio com listener for privacy information [... more]