FILE - Barry Stevens, portraying Benjamin Franklin, right, walks past a just unveiled stamp marking the 250th anniversary of the postal service, Wednesday, July 23, 2025, in Washington, as Postmaster General David Steiner looks on. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)
FILE - This illustration depicts a Pony Express rider, left, greeting Western Union linemen as they string wires of the first transcontinental telegraph in 1861. (AP Photo/File)
In this undated photo provided by the U.S. Postal Service, railway mail clerks sort mail in a Railway Post Office, a service that ran from 1864 to 1977. (U.S. Postal Service via AP)
In this photo provided by the ºÃÉ«tv Archives and Records Administration, mail is loaded onto a Curtiss JN-4H "Jenny" biplane, May 15, 1918, at Bustleton Field near Philadelphia, while U.S. Army personnel look on. (ºÃÉ«tv Archives and Records Administration via AP)
This circa 1901 photo provided by the U.S. Postal Service shows a mail carrier on Rural Route No. 2, in Rochester, Ind. (U.S. Postal Service via AP)
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FILE - Barry Stevens, portraying Benjamin Franklin, right, walks past a just unveiled stamp marking the 250th anniversary of the postal service, Wednesday, July 23, 2025, in Washington, as Postmaster General David Steiner looks on. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)
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FILE - This illustration depicts a Pony Express rider, left, greeting Western Union linemen as they string wires of the first transcontinental telegraph in 1861. (AP Photo/File)
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In this undated photo provided by the U.S. Postal Service, railway mail clerks sort mail in a Railway Post Office, a service that ran from 1864 to 1977. (U.S. Postal Service via AP)
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In this photo provided by the ºÃÉ«tv Archives and Records Administration, mail is loaded onto a Curtiss JN-4H "Jenny" biplane, May 15, 1918, at Bustleton Field near Philadelphia, while U.S. Army personnel look on. (ºÃÉ«tv Archives and Records Administration via AP)
