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And thankyou again to the @mailed-it crew who put in so much effort organising and compiling and mailing, it was so fun to take part in this exchange!

Also, thank you to the organisers of this event: @mailed-it. This event was such a great way of bringing together international fans of thai bl. Thank you!

The small post office in the West Village has been neighborhood fixture since it was built. - The Postal Service is in danger of being defunded and dismantled. We have the power to change that. Join Stand By Your Mail in the fight to save our USPS. Find out more at standbyyourmail.org/take-action. - Stand By Your Mail is a collective of filmmakers, designers and communicators using our skills and experience to help save and revitalize the USPS. We stand by accessible and affordable mall for every American. - Tag us or use #StandByYourMail and @StandByYourMail to get featured news and to help spread the good word. - Stand By Your Mail - The People’s Postal Rescue Campaign Website  https://www.standbyyourmail.org - Stand By Your Mail - Instagram @StandByYourMail - Stand By Your Mail - Twitter @StandByYourMail - Stand By Your Mail - Facebook https://www.facebook.com/StandByYourMail/ - Stand By Your Mail - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-23U6gKXlGYc35CluqPUBA/videos - #StandByYourMail #APWUnited #TheMailMustGetThrough #MailedIt #SaveUSPS #USPS #SaveTheUSPS #GonePostal #SaveUSPSPhotoChallenge #SaveThePostOffice #PostalProud #USPSLife #USPSEmployee #RuralCarrier #PostalLife #UnitedStatesPostOffice #UnitedStatesPostalService (at Post Office-West Village) https://www.instagram.com/p/CILXkx9LQ3c/?igshid=11guayeywrk71

The Kingsbridge Post Office in the Marble Hill is mistakenly considered by many to be part of The Bronx. Marble Hill is actually one of the only parts of the borough not to be on the island of Manhattan. - Marble Hill was settled in 1646 by the Dutch as a trading post. Much of the history of the area is tied up in the two rivers that ran through the territory; one at 219 Street and the other at 238 Street. Over the next two centuries there were skirmishes over the ferries and toll bridges that allowed farmers and fur traders to get their goods to market. - After an increase in ship traffic in the 1890’s, the United States Army Corps of Engineers determined that the small canal at 219 Street was needed to be widened as the main shipping route between the Hudson and Harlem rivers. In the 1810’s, the narrow canal had been dug through the south end of Marble Hill known "Dyckman Canal". - The first section of the canal across the bottom of Marble Hill, was completed in 1895. Several festivities including parades were held to commemorate the occasion. This rendered Marble Hill an island bounded by the canal to the south and the original course of the Harlem River to the north. The Greater New York Charter of 1897 designated Marble Hill as part of the Borough of Manhattan. - You need to check out all that is happening in the great 10463 zip code. - #StandByYourMail #APWUnited #TheMailMustGetThrough #MailedIt #SaveUSPS #USPS #SaveTheUSPS #GonePostal #SaveUSPSPhotoChallenge #SaveThePostOffice #PostalProud #USPSLife #USPSEmployee #RuralCarrier #PostalLife #UnitedStatesPostOffice #UnitedStatesPostalService (at Kingsbridge Post Office) https://www.instagram.com/p/CE7HSnvnkDk/?igshid=17y5q8m5os2hq

The Stamp That Built the Panama Canal - In 1902, the U.S. Congress was about to pass legislation to link the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea with a canal across ”that's right” Nicaragua. That is, until engineer Philipe Bunau-Varilla (and a certain stamp) got involved. - In the 1880s, Bunau-Varilla worked for a French company that had attempted to construct a similar canal across Panama. But engineering difficulties, financial mismanagement, and deadly yellow fever epidemics eventually bankrupted the company and prevented it from completing the project. Still believing Panama (then part of Colombia) presented the best route for such a canal (and still wanting a government contract to construct it), Bunau-Varilla lobbied Congress to switch its plans, claiming Nicaragua's terrain was too unwieldy. Then, in the spring of 1902, nature worked in his favor. Mt. Momotombo, a volcano in Nicaragua, erupted. - Knowing the incident would sway the American canal vote, Nicaraguan officials immediately began denying reports of the eruption, and Bunau-Varilla was left struggling for a way to counter the Nicaraguan cover-up. Fortunately, he remembered once seeing a Nicaraguan postage stamp featuring Mt. Momotombo, conveniently depicted with smoke rising from the top. After rummaging through stamp shops in Washington, he found the one he was looking for and promptly purchased 90 copies. - In a matter of days, all 45 U.S. senators had received the Mt. Momotombo stamp, complete with Bunau-Varilla's caption, "An official witness to volcanic activity in Nicaragua." This menacing volcano, they were told, would threaten the canal route. Sure enough, when the Senate voted on June 19, 1902, the Panama route won. - Bunau-Varilla ran a sophisticated lobbying campaign to change public opinion and Congressional votes, but he couldn't have sealed the deal without the help of those Nicaraguan stamps. www.mentalfloss.com - #StandByYourMail #APWUnited #MailedIt #SaveUSPS #USPS #SaveTheUSPS #GonePostal #SaveUSPSPhotoChallenge #SaveThePostOffice #PostalProud #USPSLife #USPSEmployee #RuralCarrier #PostalLife #UnitedStatesPostOffice #UnitedStatesPostalService (at US Embassy Managua) https://www.instagram.com/p/CD_xaa5H_bD/?igshid=1fq97prvutft1

The Pony Express was established in 1860 when California settlers complained that the heavy overland coaches which then carried the mail was too slow. The Pony Express was run on a relay system of fearless men who traveled alone at breakneck speed over the wild plains and the towering Rockies to carry urgent mail over a route that stretched from St. Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California, a distance of two thousand miles. Daily riders faced death from highwaymen, hostile Indians, flash floods and stampeding herds of bison which then roamed the western plains in tens of thousands. Mail carried by the Pony Express was literally galloped to its destination. Situated all along the route, at 15-mile intervals, were small way-stations at which were kept a number of fast horses all rested, fed and watered, ready for the road. As each Pony Expressman arrived at one of the stations he would pull his mail pouch from his saddle, jump down from his tired horse, leap on a fresh mount, and then take off again at top speed. He would repeat this at every way-station until he had traveled 75 miles, at which point the exhausted rider, as well as his horse, would be replaced by a fresh rider who, as soon as he had received his mail pouch, would continue the journey at a gallop. The slogan of the Pony Express was "The Mail Must Go Through". And thanks to the brave men - men like 'Buffalo Bill' Cody - who rode the dangerous route, it did. Best of all, it went through fast. And this speedy new means of communication provided the Pony Express was one of the greatest single factors in opening up the Far West to trade and commerce. Stories Behind the Stamps by Doug Storer Published by H.E. Harris & Co., Boston, MA 02117 #StandByYourMail #APWUnited #MailedIt #SaveUSPS #USPS #SaveTheUSPS #GonePostal #SaveUSPSPhotoChallenge #SaveThePostOffice #PostalProud #USPSLife #USPSEmployee #RuralCarrier #PostalLife #UnitedStatesPostOffice #UnitedStatesPostalService Stand By Your Mail is a collective of filmmakers, designers and communicators using our skills and experience to help save and revitalize the USPS. We stand by accessible and affordable mall for every American. (at Saint Joseph, Missouri) https://www.instagram.com/p/CD1OUPBjf6h/?igshid=ylv1wq3m0bdm