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unusual facts about Post Office Department



Alder, Oregon

Alder railroad station on Southern Pacific's Toledo Line (now owned by the Portland and Western Railroad) was established in 1911, but in 1922 the Post Office Department would not name the community's new post office "Alder" because of potential confusion with many other offices with the same name.

Columbian Issue

An organization called the Society for the Suppression of Speculative Stamps (sometimes called the Society for the Suppression of Spurious Stamps) was created in protest over the creation of this set, deeming the Exposition in Chicago insufficiently important to be honored on postage, while some collectors balked at the Post Office Department's willingness to profit from the growing hobby of philately.

Federal Aviation Administration

It took over the building and operation of the nation's system of lighted airways, a task that had been begun by the Post Office Department.

Herbert B. Warburton

Following his congressional service, Warburton was appointed special assistant to United States Secretary of Labor, James P. Mitchell from 1955 until 1957, general counsel for the Post Office Department from 1957 until 1961, and minority counsel to the U.S. House Government Operations subcommittee, serving there from 1961 to 1964.


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Agincourt, Toronto

The name of the settlement was after Azincourt in northern France and apparently was intended to satisfy a French Canadian Post Office Department bureaucrat who demanded that Hill give his settlement a French name.

George W. Ladd

Ladd served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Forty-sixth Congress).

Irvin S. Pepper

In the Sixty-third Congresses, he served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department.

Samuel Lilly

Lilly was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third Congress, serving in office from March 4, 1853-March 3, 1855, and was chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department.