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made inordinate profits." They were unregulated and confused customers with myriad rates; in rural areas they dropped off packages at the train depot. Furthermore many politically connected town merchants worried that the service would reduce farmers' weekly visits to town to obtain supplies, or that
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However, the adoption of a nationwide RFD system had many opponents. Most important were the four rich, powerful express companies that monopolized the delivery of valuable or time-sensitive packages. Wayne Fuller concludes that they "arrogantly served the public, rendered only mediocre service,
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with its catalogs would undermine their local business. The opponents mounted a fierce opposition to the use of parcel post, delaying full implementation. However Sears and the other mail-order houses realized that parcel post would be to their advantage and joined the farmers in a coalition that
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of Georgia mandated the practice, and RFD finally became an official service in 1896. That year, 82 rural routes were put into operation. Tens of thousands of routes had to be found. A massive undertaking, nationwide RFD service took several years to implement, and remains the "biggest and most
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The Post Office Department first experimented with the idea of rural mail delivery in 1896, to determine the viability of RFD. It began with five routes covering 10 miles, 33 years after free delivery in cities had begun. The first routes to receive RFD during its experimental phase were in
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in east-central Indiana claims to be the birthplace of Rural Free Delivery. Milton Trusler, a leading farmer in the county, began advocating the idea in 1880; as the president of the Indiana Grange, he spoke to farmers statewide frequently over the following 16 years. Postmaster General
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The service grew steadily. By 1901, the mileage had increased to over 100,000; the cost was $ 1,750,321, and over 37,000 carriers were employed. In 1910, the mileage was 993,068; the cost was $ 36,915,000, and 40,997 carriers were employed. In 1913 came the introduction of
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The rural delivery service has used a network of rural routes traveled by carriers to deliver to and pick it up from roadside mailboxes. As of 2012, the USPS rural delivery service served about 41 million homes and businesses. As of 2022, the USPS had about 133,000
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to deliver mail directly to rural destinations. The program began in the late 19th century. Before that, people living in rural areas had to pick up mail themselves at sometimes distant post offices or pay private carriers for
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On October 1, 1890, Congress authorized funding of $ 10,000 to test the "practicability" of delivering mail to small towns, defined as those having populations of from 300 to 5,000 people, and nearby rural
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delivery, which caused another boom in rural deliveries. Parcel post service allowed the distribution of national newspapers and magazines, and was responsible for millions of dollars of sales in
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merchandise to customers in rural areas. By 1930, 43,278 rural routes served over 6,875,300 families, amounting to about 25,472,00 persons, at a cost of $ 106,338,341. The
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The following is a list of the first rural routes established in each state, along with the names of the (up to three) post offices served and the date of establishment.
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pushed through legislation that mandated the practice. However, universal implementation was slow; RFD was not adopted generally across the country until 1902.
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Kernell, Samuel, and Michael P. McDonald. "Congress and America's political development: The transformation of the post office from patronage to service."
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The proposal to offer free rural delivery was not universally embraced. Private carriers and local shopkeepers feared a loss of business. RFD became a
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finally overcame the local merchants and express companies. Indeed, Sears sales tripled in the first five years after parcel post started in 1913.
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Until the late 19th century, residents of rural areas had to travel to a designated distant
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mixed harvest: The second great transformation in the rural north, 1870-1930
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to pick up their mail or to pay for delivery by a private carrier.
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Fuller, Wayne E. “Good Roads and Rural Free Delivery of Mail.”
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Index

Rural free delivery
Rural Free Delivery (EP)

Popular Mechanics
United States Post Office Department
delivery
political football
Thomas E. Watson
rural letter carriers

electric vehicle
post office
Fayette County
John Wanamaker
The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry
Sears, Roebuck and Company
Jefferson County, West Virginia
Charles Town
Halltown
Uvilla
Thomas E. Watson
U.S. Postal Service
parcel post
mail-order
Rural Post Roads Act of 1916
Opelika
Nome
Tempe
Clarksville
Campbell

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