**PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A VIRTUAL PROGRAM THAT WILL TAKE PLACE VIA ZOOM. Registrants will receive a link to access the Zoom Meeting via email.** 

By viewing images of vintage U.S. postage stamps, learn about the history of the U.S. Post Office from the first letters carried on the Boston Post Road to the current postal controversies. Hear about the expansion of the Post Office after the Revolution; the introduction of home delivery; the short-lived Pony Express; the carrying of mail by railroads, buses and trollies; the start of Parcel Post; the first airmail and catapult mail; mailbox designs; V-mail of World War II; the start of zip codes, postal strikes; the introduction of Forever and personalized stamps; and the impact of email on the Post Office's financial situation. See images of the many creative ways mail has been carried including rockets, dog sleds, camels and mules down into the Grand Canyon. Led by Henry Lukas, Education Director at the Spellman Museum of Stamps at Regis College in Weston since 2004. He is a retired Social Studies teacher and high school  principal for thirty-five years. He has served as a docent at the Museum of Fine Arts and  the Harvard Peabody Museum in addition to giving historical tours of Boston. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library.