Postal Museum Celebrates 15 Years

By Alison McSherry
Roll Call Staff

April 21, 2008

From a letter to an old friend to a bill sent to the electric company, mail is a large part of Americans’ lives. For many years, though, it was not recognized with anything as grand as a national museum. That changed 15 years ago when a small exhibit grew into the National Postal Museum that now sits at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue Northeast and North Capitol Street.

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