How the Post Office Made America | Wendover Productions
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How the Post Office Made America | Wendover Productions

B2Upper-intermediateNovember 14, 202615 min
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People identified with their state first and their country second.

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This Wendover Productions video was made possible by a way. Get $20 off the perfect suitcase from away with the code WENDOVER at checkout. The Post Office Made America. It's an ambitious claim, I know, but without it, the United States as we know it today

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would not exist. As author Winifred Gallagher eloquently pointed out in her book How the Post Office Created America, in the years following the American Revolution, one didn't say the United States States is," they said, the United States are.

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The country at the time was just a loose collectivity of states. The national government was weak. People identified with their state first and their country second. With the opening of the post office, however, Americans across the continent had for the

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