{"id":39200,"date":"2025-07-26T17:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T17:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/39200\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T17:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T17:29:09","slug":"united-states-postal-service-founded-july-26-1775","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/39200\/","title":{"rendered":"United States Postal Service founded July 26, 1775"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MONROE, La. (KNOE) &#8211; On July 26, 1775, the Second Continental Congress appointed Benjamin Franklin as Postmaster General of the United Colonies. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The founders believed a free exchange of news, ideas and opinions was crucial to developing a democracy. Through horseback, steamboat, rail and train, the mail has been delivered in both cities and rural communities. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The United States Postal Service now processes around 371 million pieces of mail per day. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KNOE. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONROE, La. (KNOE) &#8211; On July 26, 1775, the Second Continental Congress appointed Benjamin Franklin as Postmaster General&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,31890,473,31889,3729,983,3,31893,31887,31891,21,19,1899,22,20,25,24,1892,31888,31892],"class_list":["post-39200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-channel-8","tag-history","tag-knoe","tag-local","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-postal-service","tag-this-day-in-history","tag-today-in-history","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-united-states-postal-service","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-usps","tag-we-the-people","tag-what-happened-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}