"A masterful history of a long underappreciated institution, 'How the Post Office Created America' examines the surprising role of the postal service in our nation's political, social, economic, and physical development. The founders established the post office before they had even signed the Declaration of Independence, and for a very long time, it was the U.S. government's largest and most important endeavor-indeed, it was the government for most...

Relates the history of the Pony Express from when it began to carry messages across the American West in April 1860 until the telegraph replaced it in October 1861.

Inside the walls of the Dead Letters Depot, letter detectives work to solve mysteries. They study missing zip codes, illegible handwriting, rain-smudged ink, lost address labels, torn packages, forgotten street names--all the many twists of fate behind missed birthdays, broken hearts, unheard confessions, pointless accusations, unpaid bills, unanswered prayers. Their mission is to unite lost mail with its intended recipients. But when letters arrive...

"The uncannily perceptive feline, Mrs. Murphy, detects a pattern to the murders claiming the inhabitants of tiny Crozet, Virginia, which seem to be linked to a hoax in the obituary department of the local newspaper."--from Novelist.

Arch-swindler Moist Van Lipwig never believed his confidence crimes were hanging offenses-until he found himself with a noose tightly around his neck, dropping through a trapdoor, and falling into-a government job? By all rights, Moist should have met his maker. Instead, it's Lord Vetinari, supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork, who promptly offers him a job as Postmaster. Since his only other option is a nonliving one, Moist accepts the position-and the...

Photographs and text describe how the United States Postal Service collects, processes, and delivers mail.

Follows the adventures of four postal detectives with a mission to deliver previously undeliverable mail.

"As Harry Haristeen and her old high school chums make preparations for their twentieth high school reunion, classmates begin to turn up dead, one at a time."--from NoveList.

Virginia postmistress Mary "Harry" Haristeen has another murder case to solve, as the victim keeps turning up around town.