ADAD“Franklin would be outraged,” historian Richard John, author of “Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse,” said in a phone interview. Franklin was postmaster general of Philadelphia from 1737 until 1753 when he was appointed deputy postmaster general of the colonies. Within four years of Franklin becoming deputy postmaster general, the service began to register a profit. “Lord Sandwich, the crown’s postmaster general, disapproved of Franklin’s pro-American sympathies,” Leonard writes, and in 1775, the noble dismissed Franklin from his post. Franklin had spent years setting up a proficient infrastructure and they selected the diplomat to be the new nation’s first postmaster general.

Source: Washington Post August 21, 2020 11:01 UTC