Show Post Office Day It i is SU suggested ested by the t ton bicentennial on commission that Juh J uly 26 be celebrated as Post PostOffice Office Da Day as ns it was on July 26 1775 1 that the Continental Con Con- Continental t Congress postal tal t al department established a pos ti and named Benjam- Benjam Benjamin BenJin i in n Franklin as our first general postmaster When Then Washington on assumed the presidency in in 1789 there were only y 75 postoffice and 1175 miles of post mile post roads in the United States and the postal revenues re were only about a n year When he left eu office cc eight ei ht Years yea later there were i post offices and miles r of post roads while revenues had ad increased to annually annun y It took another half halfa a century ry for postal revenues to reach five fi millions a year ear and at the be begin in- in inning ning ning- of the Civil War only about they were ei eight ht and a half lions In 1930 the miL revenues passed p the million mark mark mark- and even then millions there v was as Last n a deficit t of nearly nearh early hn year ear the post postal l deficit was much greater eater reater It is is su sUg that Post Office Day be celebrated emphasizing with speeches the history growth and importance P of the Postal ice ice service That service has a most im- im lr- lr P impressive the mounting J record marred only onis by deficit which hns h s be- be become come n a severe drain droin treasury on the public |