Editing United States Postal Service (section)

== Further reading ==
* {{cite journal |last1=Adelman |first1=Joseph M. |title="A Constitutional Conveyance of Intelligence, Public and Private": The Post Office, the Business of Printing, and the American Revolution |journal=Enterprise & Society |date=2010 |volume=11 |issue=4 |pages=709–752 |doi=10.1093/es/khq079 |jstor=  |url=http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/enterprise_and_society/v011/11.4.adelman.html |access-date= |issn=1467-2235}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Aneja |first1=Abhay |last2=Xu |first2=Guo |title=Strengthening State Capacity: Postal Reform and Innovation during the Gilded Age |journal=NBER Working Papers |date=March 2022 |issue=29852 |pages= |doi=10.3386/w29852 |ssrn= 4062403 |url=https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w29852/w29852.pdf  |access-date= |publisher=National Bureau of Economic Research |language=en}}, uses advanced statistics.
* {{cite journal |last1=Bergmann |first1=William H. |title=Delivering a Nation through the Mail: The Post Office in the Ohio Valley, 1789–1815 |journal=Ohio Valley History |date=2008 |volume=8 |issue=3 |pages=1–18 |doi= |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/272/article/567347/summary |access-date= |issn=2377-0600}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Carpenter |first1=Daniel P. |title=State Building through Reputation Building: Coalitions of Esteem and Program Innovation in the National Postal System, 1883–1913 |journal=Studies in American Political Development |date=October 2000 |volume=14 |issue=2 |pages=121–155 |doi=10.1017/S0898588X00003382  |doi-broken-date=January 6, 2025 |url=http://urban.hunter.cuny.edu/~schram/Grad%20American/Overviews%20&%20Syntheses/Bureaucracy/Carpenter.State%20Building%20Thru%20Reputation.pdf |access-date= |issn=}}
* DeBlois, Diane, Robert Dalton Harris, and West Sand Lake. "[https://stamps.org/Portals/0/Symposium/16-DeBlois-Paper.pdf Newspapers in the Mails: Strategic Unification under the Franklin/Hunter Dual Postmaster Generalship.]" ''Postal History Symposium'' (2016) it started in 1758.
* Devin, Leonard. ''Neither Snow Nor Rain: A History of the United States Postal Service'' (Grove Atlantic, 2016) popular history [https://www.amazon.com/Neither-Snow-Nor-Rain-History/dp/080215901X/ excerpt]
* {{cite journal |last1=Foley |first1=Michael S. |title=A Mission Unfulfilled: The Post Office and the Distribution of Information in Rural New England, 1821-1835 |journal=Journal of the Early Republic |date=1997 |volume=17 |issue=4 |pages=611–650 |doi=10.2307/3124318 |jstor=3124318 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3124318 |access-date= |issn=0275-1275}}
* Fuller, Wayne. ''[[iarchive:americanmailenla0000fullonline|American Mail: Enlarger of the Common Life]]'' (1972)
** Fuller, Wayne E. ''[[iarchive:moralitymailinni0000full|Morality and the mail in nineteenth-century America]]'' (University of Illinois Press, 2003)
** Fuller, Wayne E. ''[[iarchive:rfdchangingfaceo00full|RFD, the changing face of rural America]]'' (1964)
** {{cite journal |last1=Fuller |first1=Wayne E. |title=Good Roads and Rural Free Delivery of Mail |journal=The Mississippi Valley Historical Review |date=1955 |volume=42 |issue=1 |pages=67–83 |doi=10.2307/1898624 |jstor=1898624 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1898624 |access-date= |issn=0161-391X}}
** {{cite journal |last1=Fuller |first1=Wayne E. |title=The South and the Rural Free Delivery of Mail |journal=The Journal of Southern History |date=1959 |volume=25 |issue=4 |pages=499–521 |doi=10.2307/2954453 |jstor=2954453 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2954453 |access-date= |issn=0022-4642}}
** {{cite journal |last1=Fuller |first1=Wayne E. |title=The Populists and the Post Office |journal=Agricultural History |date=1991 |volume=65 |issue=1 |pages=1–16 |jstor=3743678 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3743678 |access-date= |issn=0002-1482}}
* {{cite book |last1=Gallagher |first1=Winifred |title=How the Post Office Created America |date=2017 |publisher=Penguin |location=New York |isbn= |pages=326 pp |url= }}
* Hafen, LeRoy R. ''[[iarchive:overlandmail18490000hafe/page/n5/mode/1up|The Overland Mail, 1849–1869: Promoter of Settlement, Precursor of Railroads]]'' (1926)
* Henkin, David M. ''[https://www.amazon.com/The-Postal-Age-Communications-Nineteenth-Century/dp/0226327213/ The Postal Age: The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century Americ] a'' (2007)
* {{cite journal |last1=Hoyos |first1=Roman J. |title=The People's Privilege: The Franking Privilege, Constituent Correspondence, and Political Representation in Mid-Nineteenth Century America |journal=Law and History Review |date=February 2013 |volume=31 |issue=1 |pages=101–138 |doi=10.1017/S0738248012000843 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/law-and-history-review/article/peoples-privilege-the-franking-privilege-constituent-correspondence-and-political-representation-in-midnineteenth-century-america/5CA9C5BAE6877C60A8097478349A6A9D |access-date= |language=en |issn=0738-2480}}
* John, Richard R. ''[https://www.amazon.com/Spreading-News-American-Postal-Franklin/dp/0674833422/ Spreading the News: The American Postal System From Franklin to Morse]'' (1998)
* {{cite journal |last1=Kielbowicz |first1=Richard B. |title=Government Goes into Business: Parcel Post in the Nation's Political Economy, 1880–1915 |journal=Studies in American Political Development |date=1994 |volume=8 |issue=1 |pages=150–172 |doi=10.1017/S0898588X00000109 |access-date= |language=en |issn=0898-588X}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Kielbowicz |first1=Richard B. |title=The Press, Post Office, and Flow of News in the Early Republic |journal=Journal of the Early Republic |date=1983 |volume=3 |issue=3 |pages=255–280 |doi=10.2307/3122616 |jstor=3122616 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3122616 |access-date= |issn=0275-1275}}
* Kielbowicz, Richard. ''[https://www.amazon.com/News-Mail-Information-1700-1860s-Contributions/dp/0313266387/ News in the Mail: The Press, Post Office, and Public Information, 1700–1860s]'' (1989)
* {{cite journal |last1=Kernell |first1=Samuel |last2=McDonald |first2=Michael P. |title=Congress and America's Political Development: The Transformation of the Post Office from Patronage to Service |journal=American Journal of Political Science |date=1999 |volume=43 |issue=3 |pages=792–811 |doi=10.2307/2991835 |jstor=2991835 |pmid= |url=http://pages.ucsd.edu/~skernell/styled/documents/rfdajps.pdf  |access-date= |issn=0092-5853}}, focus on Rural Free Delivery issue in 1890s.
* {{cite book| title=Neither Snow nor Rain: A History of the United States Postal Service| last=Leonard| first=Devin| isbn=978-0-8021-2458-6| year=2016| publisher=Grove Press}}
* {{cite journal|jstor=1832885|title=The Organization of the Post-Office Department of the Confederacy|journal=The American Historical Review|volume=12|issue=1|pages=66–74|last1=McCaleb|first1=Walter Flavius|year=1906|doi=10.2307/1832885}}
* Musacco Ph.D., Stephen. "Beyond Going Postal: Shifting from Workplace Tragedies and Toxic Work Environments to a Safe and Healthy Organization", (2009) Booksurge Publishing, [http://vimeo.com/3843321/ Book Trailer]
* {{cite journal |last1=Priest |first1=George L. |title=The History of the Postal Monopoly in the United States |journal=The Journal of Law and Economics |date=April 1975 |volume=18 |issue=1 |pages=33–80 |doi=10.1086/466806 |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/466806?journalCode=jle |access-date= |issn=0022-2186}}
* Rich, Wesley Everett. ''[[iarchive:historyofuniteds0027unse|The History of the United States Post Office to the Year 1829]]'' (Harvard University Press, 1924)
* {{cite book |last1=Rubio |first1=Philip F. |title=Undelivered: From the Great Postal Strike of 1970 to the Manufactured Crisis of the U.S. Postal Service |date=25 March 2020 |publisher=UNC Press Books |isbn=978-1-4696-5547-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4fXGDwAAQBAJ&pg=PP1 |access-date= |language=en}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Rubio |first1=Philip F. |title=Unintended Consequences: the U.S. Postal Service Conundrum of Service, Business, Labor, and Politics |journal=Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal |date=1 June 2021 |volume=33 |issue=2 |pages=125–141 |doi=10.1007/s10672-021-09368-0 |pmc=8009635 |language=en |issn=1573-3378}}. On the postal crisis of 2020
* Scheele,  Carl H. ''[[iarchive:shorthistoryofma00sche|A Short History of the Mail Service]]'' (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970), with long bibliography
* {{cite book |last1=Shaw |first1=Christopher W. |title=First Class: The U.S. Postal Service, Democracy, and the Corporate Threat |date=9 November 2021 |publisher=City Lights Books |isbn=978-0-87286-855-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sHsqEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT6 |access-date= |language=en}}
* {{cite journal|jstor=1835049|title=The Colonial Post-Office|journal=The American Historical Review|volume=21|issue=2|pages=258–75|last1=Smith|first1=William|year=1916|doi=10.2307/1835049}}
* {{cite book|title=The United States Postal Service: An American History|url=https://about.usps.com/publications/pub100.pdf|date=2022|publisher=United States Postal Service|isbn= 978-0-9630952-5-1|quote=Publication 100|access-date=November 19, 2022|location=Washington, D.C.}}
* White, Leonard D. ''[[iarchive:federalistsstudy0000leon|The Federalists: A study in administrative history: 1789–1801]]'' (1948), pp 173–98
** White, Leonard D. ''[[iarchive:jeffersoniansstu0000leon|The Jeffersonians: A study in administrative history: 1801–29]]'' (1950), pp 299–335
** White, Leonard D. ''[[iarchive:jacksoniansstudy0000leon|The Jacksonians: A study in administrative history: 1829–6]]1'' (1954), pp 251–83
** White, Leonard D. ''[[iarchive:republicanera0000leon|The Republican Era: A study in administrative history: 1869–1901]]'' (1963), pp 257–77