The National Postal Museum houses the National Philatelic Collection. Also, it hosts many artifacts and displays about the history of the United States Postal Service and of mail services around the world.
The museum is located across the street from Union Station in the building that once served as the main post office of Washington, D.C., from 1914 to 1986.
The United States Postal Service is an independent agency of the executive branch of the federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States.
It is one of the few government agencies explicitly authorized by the United States Constitution.
The Service traces its roots to 1775 when Benjamin Franklin was appointed the first postmaster general. The Post Office Department was created in 1792 with the passage of the Postal Service Act.
The Postal Service is legally obligated to serve all Americans, regardless of geography, at uniform price and quality. The Post Office has exclusive access to letterboxes marked “U.S. Mail” and personal mailboxes in the United States.
Today, the United States Postal Service competes with private package delivery services, such as UPS, FedEx, and Amazon.
Mail-carrying U.S. Mail plane
Highlights of the National Postal Museum
- Pony Express exhibits
- Exhibit on Railroads and mail services
- Exhibition on the growth in direct marketing mail
- John Lennon’s childhood stamp collection
- 1856 British Guiana One-Cent Magenta, the world’s most valuable stamp ~ $10 million
- Mail-carrying stagecoach exhibit
- Air-mail plane exhibit
- Dead Letters exhibit
- Mail Truck
- Mailbox Exhibits
- Historical Stamp Exhibits
- National Postal Museum Archives
Mail-carrying stagecoach
National Postal Museum
- Museum: National Postal Museum
- City: Washington, D.C.
- Country: United States
- Opened: 1993
- Type: Specialist Museum
- Category: National Museum of the United States
- Location: Postal Square Building, Washington, D.C.
John Lennon’s stamp collection
National Postal Museum Map
National Postal Museum – 360 Views
National Postal Museum – 360 Views
National Postal Museum – 360 Views
National Postal Museum – 360 Views
National Postal Museum – 360 Views
Virtual Tour of the National Museums of the United States
- The National Museum of the United States
- National Museum of the United States Air Force
- National Museum of the Marine Corps
- National Air and Space Museum
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- National Museum of Natural History
- National Portrait Gallery
- National Veterans Memorial and Museum
- National Nordic Museum
- National Museum of the United States Navy
- National Constitution Center
- The National WWII Museum
- National World War I Museum and Memorial
- National Civil War Museum
- National Civil Rights Museum
- National Museum of the American Indian
- CIA Museum
- National Cryptologic Museum
- National Postal Museum
National Postal Museum
National Postal Museum
National Postal Museum
Virtual Tour of American Museums
- Museums in New York
- Museums in Washington, D.C.
- Museums in Boston
- Museums in Los Angeles
- Museums in San Francisco
- Museums in Chicago
- Museums in Cleveland
- Museums in Philadelphia
- Museums in Wilmington
- Museums in Houston
- Museums in Honolulu
- Museums in Columbus
- Museums in New Haven
- Museums in Baltimore
- Museums in Massachusetts
- Museums in Buffalo, New York
- Museums in Fort Worth, Texas
- Museums in Detroit
- Museums in St. Louis
- Museums in Indianapolis
- Museums in Denver
- Museums in Dallas
- Museums in Cincinnati
- Museums in Phoenix, Arizona
- Museums in Pasadena, California
- Museums in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Museums in Richmond, Virginia
- Museums in Kansas City, Missouri
- Museums in Miami, Florida
- Museums in Hartford, Connecticut
- Museums in New Orleans, Louisiana
- American Proverbs and Quotes
National Postal Museum
National Postal Museum
National Postal Museum
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“The post-office is a wonderful establishment!
The regularity and dispatch of it!
If one thinks of all that it has to do,
and all that it does so well,
it is really astonishing!”
– Jane Austen
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