By David M. Henkin
Americans in general realize tv, e mail, and quick messaging as brokers of pervasive cultural switch. yet many people won't become aware of that what we now name snail mail was simply as innovative. As David M. Henkin argues in The Postal Age, a burgeoning postal community initiated significant cultural shifts through the 19th century, laying the basis for the interconnectedness that now defines our ever-evolving international of telecommunications. This interesting historical past lines those shifts from their beginnings within the mid-1800s, while more cost-effective postage, mass literacy, and migration mixed to make the common postal carrier a extra essential and potential a part of way of life. With such dramatic occasions because the Civil conflict and the gold rush underscoring the significance and necessity of the submit, an incredibly large diversity of Americans—male and feminine, black and white, native-born and immigrant—joined this postal community, frequently interacting with far-off locales earlier than the lifestyles of phones or perhaps the frequent use of telegraphy. Drawing on unique letters and diaries from the interval, in addition to public discussions of the increasing postal method, Henkin tells the tale of the way those american citizens adjusted to a brand new global of long-distance correspondence, crowded submit places of work, direct mail, valentines, and useless letters. The Postal Age paints a colourful photo of a society the place percentages proliferated for the types of non-public and impersonal communications that we regularly go together with newer historic sessions. In doing so, it considerably raises our figuring out of either antebellum the US and our personal bankruptcy within the historical past of communications.
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8 Others avoided the post altogether, preferring to communicate through individual travelers. In the 1780s, for example, Virginia physician Charles Mortimer relied upon informal and irregular modes of conveyance in order to correspond with his son Jack, an apprentice in Philadelphia. ” The Mortimers’ letters depended on the unpredictable mobility of particular persons and followed their trajectories. 9 By far the most serious obstacle to widespread use of the mail before 1845, perhaps even for those with social access to “families of Gentlemen,” was financial.
22 The American ratification of this new model began in 1845, when Congress revamped the postage scale. Letters would now be charged on the basis of weight at a radically reduced rate of five cents per half ounce for a distance up to three hundred miles and ten cents per half ounce for greater distances. Six years later, the Postal Act of 1851 set the basic rate at only five cents for any half-ounce letter traveling up to three thousand miles within the United States, effectively eliminating distance as a determinant of cost.
Post Office was committed principally to facilitating the wide circulation of political news, allowing an informed citizenry to live far from the metropolitan centers of government while remaining active in its affairs. 21 To later users of the post, the preponderance of newspapers in the mail might appear as a vestige of an antiquated and unjust privilege, but in the early republic the link between the press and the post made perfect sense. To be sure, not everyone shared the view that the only proper function of a post was to circulate printed newspapers and subsidize political communication.
