(You may want to listen as you read and check out the pictures.

http://youtu.be/yEsjo8gt2VY)

Today's topic is anything that has to do with the postal service and Fall. 9/22/1789, the US Post Office, an office under the President, extended the regulating of post offices from state state, as established by congress in 1781. Regulation included postal routes, postal rates, stagecoaches, and the pony express. On 9/22 the The first postoffice opened somewhere (but I couldn't find out exactly where). It also when newspapers were accepted as mail, and regulation was passed forbidding postal workers to open letters. In 1800 The Postal Service moved from Philly to Washington, DC which had become the seat of government. It took 2 horse drawn wagons to move all the postal records, furnishings and supplies. TRIVIA Only 2 postmasters in history became president: Abraham Lincoln and Henry Truman.
(Info take from "USPS History")

So, when you think of mail and post offices, what comes to mind.

I always thought that Ausfahrt or Ausgang were the biggest cities in Germany because all the exits went there