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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS,
On July 26, 1775, members of the Second |
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| Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, agreed:
"That a |
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| postmaster general be appointed for the United Colonies, who |
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| shall hold his office at Philada, and shall be allowed a salary |
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| of 1000 dollars per an: for himself, and 340 dollars per an: |
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| for a secretary and Comptroller, with power to appoint such, |
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| and so many deputies as to him may seem proper and necessary.
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| That a line of posts be appointed under the direction of the |
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| Postmaster general, from Falmouth in New England to Savannah in |
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| Georgia, with as many cross posts as he shall think fit."; and
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| WHEREAS, This simple statement signaled the birth of the |
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| Post Office Department, the predecessor of the U.S. Postal |
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| Service and the second oldest federal department or agency of |
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| the United States; and
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| WHEREAS, Benjamin Franklin was the first Postmaster |
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| General; under him and his immediate successors, the postal |
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| system mainly carried communications between Congress and the |
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| armies; and
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| WHEREAS, America's present Postal Service descends in an |
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| unbroken line from the system Franklin planned and placed in |
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| operation; history rightfully accords him major credit for |
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| establishing the basis of the system that has well served the |
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| growing and changing needs of the American people; and
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| WHEREAS, Today, the United States Postal Service is the |
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| third largest employer in the nation and operates the largest |
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| civilian vehicle fleet in the world, with an estimated 260,000 |
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| vehicles, most recognized and identified as the Grumman LLV, or |
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| "mail truck"; and
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| WHEREAS, The motto of the Post Office "neither snow nor |
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