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In the Constitution, they gave Congress the authority to establish post offices and post roads, recognizing that newspapers made up much of the mail.

With the creation of so-called post roads, the Postal Service quite literally connected communities.

In 1790, he urged Congress’s “establishment of the militia, of a mint, of standards of weights and measures, of the post office and post roads.”

It didn’t follow any Indian trails or colonial post roads.

The Constitution explicitly gave Congress authority “to establish post offices and post roads.”