Details

Edition

Unabridged.

Description

9 audio discs (10 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Note

Title from container.

Compact disc.

In container (17 cm.).

Performer

Narrated by L.J. Ganser.

Summary

Founded by Benjamin Franklin, USPS was the information network that bound far-flung Americans together, fostered a common culture, and helped American business to prosper. A first class stamp remains one of the greatest bargains of all time, and yet, the USPS is slowly vanishing. Critics say it is slow and archaic. Mail volume is down. The workforce is shrinking. Post offices are closing. This is a multifaceted history, full of remarkable characters, from the stamp-collecting FDR, to the revolutionaries who challenged USPS's monopoly on mail, to the renegade union members who brought the system--and the country--to a halt in the 1970s. An exciting and engrossing read, this is the first major history of the USPS in over fifty years.

Note

GMD: sound recording.

Subject

United States Postal Service -- History.

Postal service -- United States -- History.

Genre/Form

Audiobooks.

Added Author

Ganser, L. J.

Recorded Books, Inc.

ISBN

9781501924866

Music No.

C04426 Recorded Books