The Postal Service’s Philly roots For Franklin, a man of myriad interests and responsibilities, the Postmaster General gig represented ... That’s because when Benjamin Franklin founded the ...

(THE CONVERSATION) The postmaster general is responsible for ... In fact, the postal system is older than the nation itself, with Benjamin Franklin serving as the first head of the organization ...

Benjamin Franklin and his future wife, Deborah Read first saw each other in 1723 on his arrival in Philadelphia, when they were only teenagers. By then, the Read family was well established in the ...

Fans of hand printing should hot-foot it to London’s St Bartholomew the Great church, where an exhibit celebrating Benjamin ...