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work_oud6y7inlrg7dclikj6gj6crsm	Peter Wosh	Going Postal	1998.0	20	.pdf	application/pdf	10179	790	58	News in the Mail: The Press, the Post Office, and Public Information, 1700emerges that points to especially important and archivally interesting transformations in American communications culture between 1790 and 1930. archival implications, and to incorporate these more recent arguments concerning mail, correspondence, and the post office into the still very useful older literature. American Mail and RFD, are indispensable starting points for examining United States postal history. The Diffusion of Information in Early America, 1700—1865 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989). The post office stimulated widespread debate over privileged information, the creation of "virtual" communities not based on geographical 10 John, Spreading the News, 83-89; Fuller, The American Mail, 171-78. however, and the transformation of corporate culture also contained important implications for the post office and for America's information infrastructure. New York Public Library, 1945); Scheele, Short History of the Mail Service, 99-103; Thornton, Handwriting in America, 43—66. New York City's main post office in the antebellum period,	./cache/work_oud6y7inlrg7dclikj6gj6crsm.pdf	./txt/work_oud6y7inlrg7dclikj6gj6crsm.txt