While it was not the reason that the Post Office created the U.S. Department officials purchased aircraft, hired pilots to fly them, and began mapping out airmail routes across the nation. Even before World War I ended (on November 11, 1918), the Post Office Department began the U.S. Only a little more than a decade after the Wright brothers first flew their history-making but very rudimentary airplane, aircraft showed their ability to affect battles during World War I. (Photo: Smithsonian Institution/National Postal Museum) They formed the nucleus of the Post Office Department’s Airmail Service when it took over mail flights from the U.S. The “fearless five” were (left to right) Edward Gardner, Captain Benjamin Lipsner, Maurice Newton, Max Miller, and Robert Shank. These were the nation’s first civilian airmail pilots. He established the foundation for many aspects of the nation’s mail system. postal system was established by the Second Continental Congress, and Benjamin Franklin was the first postmaster general. As different as “snail mail” and the internet are, there are some similarities as well… By the 2020s, much of the nation’s commerce is handled via the internet. By the 1920s, much of the nation’s commerce was handled by mail via the U.S.
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