Director: Elliot Gruber Total Full-Time Employees: 34 Approximate Number of Artifacts/Specimens: 6 million Visitors (2023): 170,013 Background. The Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum is dedicated to ...

For the millennials, postal service is a thing of distant past. Many wouldn’t have a clue about several communication devices used a few decades back, or even the red letter box that’s still ...

Smithsonian's National Postal Museum. By Lily Rothman. December 14, 2015 6:00 AM EST. A s the holiday rush moves into full throttle, ... It’s estimated that 5.5 billion cards, ...

Nearly a million postcards containing random strangers' mailed-in confessions have been collected for an exhibit at the National Postal Museum. The PostSecret website, which initially posted many ...

Mount volunteers at the Postal History Foundation once a week and knew the envelope was an important piece of history. “It belongs in a museum, where everybody can have access to it,” he said.

Jack Mount, an avid collector of postcards and postmarks, purchased an envelope postmarked in Tucson, Arizona Territory in 1867. It is the oldest postmarked envelope known to exist from the area ...