Ancient Rome has the most developed postal . Emperor Augustus Caesar established the Roman postal service in 27 B.C, Emperor Augustus called this postal postal system the Cursus Publicus, which means state-run courier in latin. The Cursus Publicus was not …show more content…
Normally the charge was paid by the receiver of the mail. Letters were charged by the distance and the number of pages it consisted. Nearly 200 years later, Rowland Hill decided to change the postal system, which is called the Postal Office Reform. Rowland’s first actions were to take account of the unpaid and paid letters, his solution was prepayment. Rowland also suggested to lower postal prices, uniforms, envelopes, and stamps, which continued outside of Great Britain. Although Rowland had many critics and unsupporters, his ideas changed the postal service forever.
The United States Postal Service(USPS) began on July 26, 1775, created by President George Washington, this service acted as a promotion for a free press. Benjamin Franklin, the postmaster of Philadelphia, had made many improvements in the USPS for instance, helpful colonial routes, making delivery time much quicker by having day and night relay systems regulating delivery costs and many more. Today the USPS had over 40,000 postal offices and delivers mail to 144 million homes and companies in the United States and the US