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A sealed envelope with a red wax stamp is overlaid with lit birthday candles shaped as the numbers 2, 5, and 0, in front of a faded background showing a mailbox and a postal worker in a mail truck.

Rural Free Delivery: Media

United States postal service

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A sealed envelope with a red wax stamp is overlaid with lit birthday candles shaped as the numbers 2, 5, and 0, in front of a faded background showing a mailbox and a postal worker in a mail truck.

The 250-Year-Old History of American Mail

The mail must go through. Mush!

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