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As mail volumes (and parcel sizes) grew, the Post Office Department looked to bigger mailboxes to handle it all. Read more: http://npm.si.edu/exhibits/current/cu...

Historic footage of Apollo 15 commander Dave Scott canceling the Apollo 15 cover. Transcript of Video: Dave Scott: To show that our good Postal Service has deliveries any place in the universe, I have the pleasant task of canceling, here on the Moon, the first stamp of a new issue dedicated to commemorate United States achievements in space. And I'm sure a lot of people have seen pictures of the stamp. I have the first one here on an envelope. At the bottom it says, " United States in Space, a decade of achievement," and I'm very proud to have the opportunity here to play postman. I pull out a cancellation device. Cancel this stamp. It says, " August the second, 1971, first day of issue. What could be a better place to cancel this stamp than right here at Hadley Rille. By golly, it even works in a vacuum. One Giant Leap For Mankind: http://npm.si.edu/ARAGOSpace

Fifty years ago, the US Navy and Post Office Department placed 3,000 letters in a missile on board the USS Barbero submarine and aimed it at the Naval Auxiliary Air Station at Mayport, Florida. In this slideshow presentation, curator Nancy A. Pope reveals more about this Cold War era mail delivery experiment.

On August 19, 2009 former Railway Post Office clerks, Greg Lowell, Donald Bliss and Gerald Lange were interviewed by Smithsonian National Postal Museum Curator Nancy A. Pope shared the ups and downs of life on the rails.

"Parks, Postmarks and Postmasters: Post Offices Within the National Park Service" by Paul Lee Maynard Sundman Lecture 2016 Paul Lee combines the real-life drama and human interest of the people, places, and events that created our national park system with a study of the post offices and postmasters that connect them to the outside world. View past Sundman lectures here: https://postalmuseum.si.edu/sundman

Herb Morrison, WLS Chicago radio reporter, and engineer Charlie Nehlsen captured the "Hindenburg" disaster on lacquer disc. Visit: http://npm.si.edu/collections/object-... Fire & Ice: "Hindenburg" and "Titanic": http://postalmuseum.si.edu/fireandice TRANSCRIPT Herb Morrison, WLS Chicago radio reporter: It’s starting to rain again; it’s… the rain had slacked up a little bit. The back motors of the ship are just holding it just enough to keep it from… It’s burst into flames! … Get this, Charlie; get this, Charlie! It’s fire… and it’s crashing! It’s crashing terrible! Oh, my! Get out of the way, please! It’s burning and bursting into flames and the… and it’s falling on the mooring mast. And all the folks agree that this is terrible; this is the one of the worst catastrophes in the world. … Crashing, oh! Four or five hundred feet into the sky and it… it’s a terrific crash, ladies and gentlemen. It’s smoke, and it’s in flames now; and the frame is crashing to the ground, not quite to the mooring mast. Oh, the humanity! And all the passengers screaming around here. I told you; it — I can’t even talk to people, their friends are out there! Ah! It’s… it… it’s a… ah! I… I can’t talk, ladies and gentlemen. Honest, it’s just laying there, a mass of smoking wreckage, and everybody can hardly breathe and talk… I’m sorry. Honest, I can hardly breathe. I’m going to step inside where I cannot see it. Charlie, that’s terrible. I… Listen folks, I’m going to have to stop for a minute, because I’ve lost my voice… This is the worst thing I’ve ever witnessed.

In 19th-century England, letters were one of the few ways to communicate. But most people dreaded the postmans knock. Postage was high, and the receiver, not the sender, had to pay for the letter. As Dr. Catherine Golden writes in her new book Posting It: The Victorian Revolution in Letter Writing, the Penny Post changed all of that. Join Dr. Golden on the 170th anniversary of the Penny Post as she discusses how the system was just as revolutionary in Victorian England as e-mail, texts, and tweets are today. The talk will feature Victorian postal products that illustrate the cultural impact of the Penny Post.

Acceptance speech by 2004 Smithsonian Philatelic Achievement Award Recipient George Brett. Read more: http://postalmuseum.si.edu/about/smit...

America's postal system has always relied on a variety of transportation systems, using contracts with companies to ensure that mail can reach across the nation, binding individuals, families and businesses together through regularly scheduled mail services. Read more: http://npm.si.edu/exhibits/current/bi...

Smithsonian's National Postal Museum staff install Amelia Earhart’s flight suit into the William H. Gross Stamp Gallery. Summer 2013. http://npm.si.edu/stampgallery/mailma...

Green Ways to Move the Mail: A challenge for the New Century Thursday, March 20, 2008 At the National Postal Museum "Can we reverse the trend of increasing atmospheric CO2 and avert climate catastrophe?" presented by Dr. Bert Drake, Senior Scientist Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. Dr. Bert G. Drake has been a plant physiologist at the Smithsonian Institution since 1970. Dr. Drake has been involved with many different research projects, but most notable would be his 20 year study of the effects of elevated CO2 on a Chesapeake Bay wetland now the longest running experiment of its type ever undertaken. Dr. Drake has given testimony on the effects of rising atmospheric CO2 before the Senate Committee on the Environment. He was as a member of site review teams for NASA, DOE, USDA, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. A popular lecturer, he is committed to public education about how environmental science at the Smithsonian Institution is helping to understand human impacts on the natural ecosystems on which our way of life depends. He is especially committed to making the public aware of the profound changes in terrestrial ecosystems occurring as a consequence of our consumption of fossil fuels and he often speaks on this topic at schools and civic organizations. The talk he will give will focus on the approaches to replacing carbon based energy with alternative energy sources for transportation. The presentation will illustrate the magnitude of the problem of finding fuels to reduce the staggering amounts of CO2 we are currently injecting into the atmosphere.

On August 19, 2009 Smithsonian National Postal Museum curator Nancy A Pope interviews Railway Post Office clerk Robert Butler.

Short 1903 film showing a horse-drawn mail wagon receiving mail from an attached trolley mail car. The original film is in the collection of the Library of Congress.

A description of early American mail coach horns. Read more: http://npm.si.edu/exhibits/current/bi...

"The Legendary Grinnel Missionaries" presented by David Beech, The Second Annual Maynard Sundman Lecture, October 11, 2003, Smithsonian National Postal Museum. The museum's Maynard Sundman Lecture Series was established in 2002 through a donation by his sons, David and Donald. The Sundman lectures feature talks by authors and expert philatelists on stamps and stamp collecting. View past Sundman lectures here: https://postalmuseum.si.edu/sundman

"100 Greatest American Stamps" presented by Janet Klug and Donald Sundman, The Sixth Annual Maynard Sundman Lecture, February 9, 2008, Smithsonian National Postal Museum. The museum's Maynard Sundman Lecture Series was established in 2002 through a donation by his sons, David and Donald. The Sundman lectures feature talks by authors and expert philatelists on stamps and stamp collecting. View past Sundman lectures here: https://postalmuseum.si.edu/sundman

A presentation by Alexander Haimann at The National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, Washington, DC, April 18, 2009.

A short silent film depicting a 1903 rural letter carrier delivering mail. The original film is in the collection of the Library of Congress.

Lunchtime Lecture is with Historian, Curator, and airmail expert Nancy Pope. She’ll discuss the birth of U.S. airmail service 100 years ago, including the drama that ensued in the 11th hour and the dashing pilots who made the service possible! Feel free to leave your questions in the comment section; a Q & A session will follow the talk. Date of lecture: May 16, 2018

The National Postal Museum's exhibit "Posted Aboard the RMS 'Titanic'" (1999-2000) offered visitors a new look at the doomed Royal Mail Ship. Produced for that exhibit, this video features the heroic story of the ship's mail clerks and ends with remarkable underwater footage of the ship. R.M.S. Titanic, Inc., the publicly held company responsible for the recovery of "Titanic" artifacts, provided these remarkable video views of the mailroom aboard "Titanic." The Smithsonian Institution gratefully acknowledges R.M.S. Titanic, Inc.’s support. Read more: http://npm.si.edu/fireandice