NPR's Throughline: The Postal Service
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The Postal Service Creates Opportunities for African Americans
Money orders were a game changer. He also established home delivery in the cities, so that previously people had to go to their local general post office and pick up their mail. Now people got their mail delivered to them in the cities. So in that time of crisis, that was the civil war, the postal service innovated.
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