Cover bearing a label from the Waukesha, Wisconsin local service
Object Details
- Description
- In early March 1970 most of the postal employees of New York City went on strike causing near commercial paralysis. Postmaster General Winton Blount responded to this emergency by issuing a special order of March 18, 1970 temporarily suspending the Post Office Department's monopoly on carriage of first-class mail. The founders of the Albany Letter Express responded to this challenge by forming a company for the delivery of mail in and around Albany, NY.
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- c. 1970
- Object number
- 2010.2023.31
- Type
- Covers & Associated Letters
- Medium
- paper; ink
- Dimensions
- Height x Width: 3 7/8 x 6 in. (9.84 x 15.24 cm)
- Place
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Topic
- The Cold War (1945-1990)
- Covers & Letters
- Record ID
- npm_2010.2023.31
