He was delighted to learn that the Post Office Department is now going to expand this service to deliver mail from Representatives in Congress to their constituents without the use of stamps, names, addresses or even zone numbers.

During the second week of operations, Fogg received a telegram from the Post Office Department, asking him to `` put on two airplanes and make two flights daily, plus one Sunday trip ''.

* 1792 – The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by President George Washington.

* 1775 – The office that would later become the United States Post Office Department is established by the Second Continental Congress.

Cannon, a member of the Republican Party, was elected as to the United States House of Representatives from Illinois to the Forty-second and to the eight succeeding Congresses ( March 4, 1873 – March 4, 1891 ), and was the chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department ( Forty-seventh Congress ), Committee on Appropriations ( Fifty-first Congress ).

The United States Post Office Department has issued " parcel post postage due " stamps.

* U. S. Post Office Department.

In February the following year, China's alleged role in the campaign finance controversy first gained public attention after the Washington Post published a story stating that a U. S. Department of Justice investigation had discovered evidence that agents of China sought to direct contributions from foreign sources to the DNC before the 1996 presidential campaign.

** The United States Post Office Department ( later renamed the United States Postal Service ) begins the 3rd regular airmail service in the world ( between New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, DC ), the 1st being from Allahabad to Naini Junction in India on the 18th February 1911 and the 2nd being from London to Windsor Castle on the 22nd June 1911.

** The United States Post Office Department rules that children may not be sent via parcel post.

* July 1 – The Postmaster-General's Department is disaggregated into the Australian Telecommunications Commission ( trading as Telecom Australia ) and the Australian Postal Commission ( trading as Australia Post ).

* January 1 – The United States Post Office Department issues a set of 12 stamps commemorating the 200th anniversary of George Washington's birth.

* February 20 – The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by President George Washington.

* July 26 – The Second Continental Congress appoints Benjamin Franklin to be the first Postmaster General of what later becomes the United States Post Office Department.

In a few weeks, after changes in personnel at the Department of Labor, Palmer faced a new and very independent-minded Acting Secretary of Labor in Assistant Secretary of Labor Louis Freeland Post, who canceled more than 2, 000 warrants as being illegal.

Garfield's accomplishments as President included a controversial resurgence of Presidential authority above Senatorial courtesy in executive appointments ; energizing U. S. naval power ; and purging corruption in the Post Office Department.

Previously in April, 1880 there had been a Congressional investigation into corruption in the Post Office Department, where profiteering rings allegedly stole millions of dollars, employing bogus mail contracts called " star routes ".

When told that his party, including his own campaign manager, Stephen W. Dorsey, was involved, Garfield directed MacVeagh and James to root out the corruption in the Post Office Department " to the bone ", regardless of where it might lead.

* The United States Post Office Department produced its first picture postcards and Commemorative stamp set

The U. S. Post Office Department issued a special fifty-cent Air Mail postage stamp, ( C-18 ) to commemorate the visit of the German airship depicting the Federal Building in Chicago, the Graf Zeppelin in flight, and its home hangar in Friedrichshafen, Germany.

Until 1971, the postmaster general was the head of the Post Office Department ( or simply " Post Office " until the 1820s ).

In 1971, the Post Office Department was re-organized into the United States Postal Service, a special agency independent of the executive branch.

The Post Office Department ( 1792 – 1971 ) was the name of the United States Postal Service when it was a Cabinet department.

Postmaster General John McLean was the first to call it the Post Office Department rather than just the " Post Office.

A senate subcommittee headed by Sen. Jackson of Washington has been going over the State Department and has reached some predictable conclusions.

The Armed Forces Medical Publication Agency, established in 1949, has published, since January 1950, The United States Armed Forces Medical Journal as a triservice publication to furnish material of professional interest to Medical Department officers of the three military services.

The Attorney General shall assign such officers and employees of the Department of Justice as may be necessary to represent the United States as to any claims of the Government of the United States with respect to which the Commission has jurisdiction under this title.

The responsibility for taking the initiative in generating ideas is that of every officer in the Department who has a policy function, regardless of rank.

In the event the rupees set aside for loans under Section 104 ( E ) of the Act are not advanced within six years from the date of this Agreement because the Export-Import Bank of Washington has not approved loans or because proposed loans have not been mutually agreeable to the Export-Import Bank of Washington and the Department of Economic Affairs of the Government of India, the Government of the United States of America may use the rupees for any purpose authorized by Section 104 of the Act.

Within sixty days after the receipt of notice that the Export-Import Bank is prepared to act favorably upon an application the Department of Economic Affairs will indicate to the Export-Import Bank whether or not the Department of Economic Affairs has any objection to the proposed loan.

Unless within the sixty-day period the Export-Import Bank has received such a communication from the Department of Economic Affairs it shall be understood that the Department of Economic Affairs has no objection to the proposed loan.

While the U. S. Department of Labor has a program of projecting industry and occupational employment trends and publishing current outlook statements, there is little tangible evidence that these projections have been used extensively in local curriculum planning.

Since 1948 the working headquarters has been the Department of Geology and Mineralogy.

`` This is one of the major items in the Fulton County general assistance program '', the jury said, but the State Welfare Department `` has seen fit to distribute these funds through the welfare departments of all the counties in the state with the exception of Fulton County, which receives none of this money.

The Highway Department source told The Constitution, however, that Vandiver has not been consulted yet about the plans to issue the new rural roads bonds.

Noting that President Kennedy has handed the Defense Department the major responsibility for the nation's civil defense program, Mr. Hawksley said the federal government would pay half the salary of a full-time local director.

-- William J. Seidel, state fire warden in the Department of Conservation and Economic Development, has retired after 36 years of service.

The company has billed the United States Government for $7,500,000 of these expenses under the Defense Department regulation allowing costs of a type generally recognized as ordinary and necessary for the conduct of the contractor's business.

The Parks Department has done an admirable job of preparing the Wollman Rink for Shakespeare.

The Department of Justice has published " ADA 2010 Revised Requirements: Accessible Pools-Means of Entry and Exit ", which is designed to assist pool owners and operators with understanding the new accessibility requirements, the application of the requirements and the longstanding obligations of pool owners and operators in connection with the new requirements.

Externally, political activity on the part of Ásatrú organizations has surrounded campaigns against alleged religious discrimination, such as the call for the introduction of an Ásatrú " emblem of belief " by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs to parallel the Wiccan pentacle granted to the widow of Patrick Stewart in 2006.

The United States Department of State has classified the group as a terrorist group by adding it to the list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations.

Michelin has an important truck tire manufacturing plant in Waterville and the Department of National Defence has its largest air force base in Atlantic Canada located at CFB Greenwood along with an important training facility at Camp Aldershot, near Kentville.