Show Women In Postal Service The distinction of first appointing a woman postmaster dots not belong to America nor Is the iployinent of women in tho postal I vrvlco ti new Idea As early as 1648 a woman postmaster post-master waa appointed to look after Ute malls of Itralno lo Cointo an important im-portant town of Franco In the trying try-Ing times of the Thirty Years war the principal office In the postal service serv-ice of Europe was held by a woman Alexandrine do Hue From 1628 to 1646 she was In charge of tho malls of the German empire tho Netherlands Nether-lands Burgundy and Lorraine She I was known as a master general of tho malls In America Elizabeth Harvey w was tho first to hold a placo In the J postal department She had charge of the letters In Portsmouth N H In tho beginning of the seventeenth con f tury A half century afterward Lydia Hill was placed In charge ot the post office In Salem Mass I |