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A meticulous register of a nation on the move. Postal history given new life. The United States Official Postal Guide (1879) functions as both a working nineteenth century postal guide and a postal history reference guide: an authoritative united states post office directory that enumerates post officers with county, state and postmaster salary listings, alongside domestic and international money order instructions 1879, chief departmental regulations, public instructions and the period's postage tables. Compact entries deliver names, offices and salaries with the clinical precision of a government ledger, but their value extends beyond bureaucracy: they are leads for philatelic research collection and anchors for genealogy postal records, revealing where a named postmaster stood in the official order and how local communities were served. As an antique postal handbook and vintage postal service resource, the volume offers researchers and curious readers an unedited glimpse of administrative life and the mechanics of communication in the 1870s united states government. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure. Its historical importance is plain: as a primary-source register of classic US postal regulations and historical mail regulations, the guide shows how communication, commerce and civic administration were organised in the post-bellum era. Collectors of classic literature and institutional libraries will prize its authenticity; philatelists consult it for routing and rate context, while family historians rely on its names and appointments when assembling lineage. Casual readers encounter a textured portrait of everyday governance; serious researchers gain a reference work that sits at the intersection of postal policy and social history. Republished with careful editorial respect, this edition restores a once scarce reference to the shelf and to research desks alike. Librarians and archivists find its structured names and rates invaluable for cataloguing and cross-referencing nineteenth century correspondence and material culture. Accessible in tone yet dense with facts, the guide bridges casual curiosity and specialist inquiry.
