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According to the USPS' web site, Richard Fairbanks' tavern in Boston was named repository for overseas mail. No further information is given.
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somewhere with a lot of rain, sleet, snow, hail & gloom of night to get thru. have a look here and make up your own mind....semantics http://ask.yahoo.com/20001114.html
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1) "The first post office was established in 1639 at the home of Richard Fairbanks in Boston, Massachusetts. The first building created to serve as a post office was built in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1683." Source and further information: http://www.stamps.org/KIDS/kid_QA.htm 2) "Did you know the the first U.S. Post Office was established in Boston in [1639]? Or that in 1683, William Penn began weekly mail service to Pennsylvania and Maryland villages and towns? Or that Philly's own Benjamin Franklin was appointed the first postmaster general in 1775? Or that the first trans-Atlantic airborne mail delivery was by hot-air balloon from America to Benjamin Franklin in France in 1785?" Source and further information: http://www.mainlinetimes.com/WebApp/appmanager/JRC/SingleWeekly;jsessionid=DL5GHYSSXD4qWlrNYNB21lnlJxpc9JJMZ42S4HPF5YQnM1xhmsGC!829690086?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=pg_wk_article&r21.pgpath=%2FMLT%2FLife&r21.content=%2FMLT%2FLife%2FHeadlineList_Story_1181229 (Datum corrected)
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Boston, Massachuttess.
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