Ben Franklin's world is a production of the

O'Mahandro Institute. Hello and welcome to episode 239 of Ben Franklin's world.

The podcast dedicated to helping you learn more about how the people and events of our early

American past have shaped the present day world we live in.

And I'm your host, Liz Kovart.

How did the postal system work in early America?

How do people send mail across the British colonies and across the empire?

These are questions that you said you wanted answers to when you sent me your questions for

episode 200, which was our listener question and answer episode that turned out to be an episode about different aspects of life in early America?

Well, when I interviewed Joseph Adelman for episode 200, I asked him your questions about both the postal system, and about transportation and how it all worked in early America.

Unfortunately I really had to cut the transportation related questions from the episode

because if I didn't well we would have had a very long episode.

And yes, I know that episode was already on the long side.

But I saved your questions and Joe's answers to them,

and today you'll get to hear my entire conversation with

Joe about the early American postal system and how people in mail traveled around

early North America and the British Empire. Now I offer you this different kind of episode, you know something that is both old and new,

and an episode that doesn't have our usual introductory or concluding segments because I'm

traveling this week and next and I can't produce any episodes.

Jacob, my eldest nephew, is graduating from college and my whole family is gathering to

congratulate him and to throw him a big party.

We're really proud of him.

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