Segment from You’ve Got Mail

Try Anything Once

The National Postal Museum’s Nancy Pope shares some of the technological innovations in postal history, some more practical than others.

A Walk in the Woods

Peter tells the story of Alexis de Tocqueville wandering the Michigan wilderness and stumbling upon a magical institution unlike anything in France: The Post Office.

00:03:10

Nickled and Dimed

Ed talks with David Henkin about the earliest letter writers, and how they cheated the postage rates of the 1830s.

00:04:20

How Much Is Too Much?

Richard John and Jennifer Mercieca recount the events surrounding the first mass mailing campaign, and how it went up in flames… LITERALLY!

00:03:24

After the Deluge

The Backstory hosts put the mass mailing into context and ask why the Post Office suddenly became a hotbed of controversy.

00:01:56

Try Anything Once

The National Postal Museum’s Nancy Pope shares some of the technological innovations in postal history, some more practical than others.

00:05:40