Ten For Today Redux: USPS

Arthur Prysock, The Infernos, Count Five, Little Milton, Chris Smither, Bobby Newsome, Preacher & The Saint, The Bangles, The Flaming Lips, American Analog Set

On this day 250 years ago, the Second Continental Congress established the United States Postal Service, and appointed Massachusetts native Benjamin Franklin (Sit down, Pennsylvania!) as postmaster general. Franklin was no Louis DeJoy, but he did a pretty good job at building a complex system that ensured that the colonists, later known as the Americans…