LIFE: Tribute to the Postal Service
As the USPS announces plans to stop delivering letters and other first-class mail on Saturdays, LIFE.com offers a series of pictures made by LIFE photographers through the years — images that pay tribute to mail carriers and to the old-school postal service as a whole.
- Wed, Feb 6, 2013
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Incredible photos from space
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Wildlife snapshots
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Jamestown cannibalism
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