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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		19th and 20th Century Northwoods Mail Delivery Had Its Woes
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:03:01
	Publish Date:		2018-07-06 06:30:00
	Description:		On days when the weather in northern Wisconsin is particularly bleak, we've all felt sympathy for our mail carriers. This week on A Northwoods Moment in History though, local historian Gary Entz tells us that it used to be a lot worse. In this modern age of e-mail, instant messaging, texting, and other forms of electronic communication, many people take the U.S. Postal Service for granted. But this has not always been the case. In fact, the founding fathers of the United States believed the delivery of mail to be so essential to a healthy democracy that the establishment of Postal Offices and Post Roads was enshrined it in Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution – the basic law of the land. The U.S. Postal Service does a remarkable job of delivering the mail, but the home delivery we take for granted today did not always exist. Prior to the Civil War, Americans had to pick up their mail directly at a Post Office at what is often called General Delivery. Home mail delivery began
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