TRIVIA:

-Horse drawn carriages were used to deliver mail in
 Philadelphia and Pittsburgh as late as 1955.

-In 1900, rural mail carriers distributed weather reports to
 farmers.

-Until 1872, a person convicted of robbing a mail carrier
 could be put to death.

-The Post Office operated all of the telephone and telegraph
 systems until 1919.

-The US Postal Service handles 40 percent of all of the
 world's mail, and it processed 166 billion pieces last year.
 In one week, nearly two million pieces of mail hit the "Dead
 Letter Office"....enough to create a stack of missing mail
 over two miles high.

-In 1770, the British Parliament declared a marriage to be
 null and void if a woman used artificial devices to seduce a
 man into marriage.  False teeth and wigs were considered
 fraudulent.

-The supersonic Concorde travels at a speed of over 2,000
 miles per hour....and a snail moves at the rate of 25 feet
 an hour.

-The nuclear weapons on just one Trident missile submarine
 contain eight times the total firepower expended in all of
 World War II.

-The average American is 32 years old, 5 feet 4 inches tall,
 weighs 143 pounds, wears glasses or contacts, has brown
 hair, carries $104. on his or her person, is married, has
 one child who is named Michael or Jennifer, charges $2,000.
 per year on ten credit cards, has two television sets, six
 radios, a VCR and a stereo.

-Thomas J. Watson, Jr., the President of IBM in 1958, did
 not see much of a future for computers.  He said, "There is
 a world market for about five computers."

-Penicillin doesn't kill germs, it only stops their
 reproduction.

-In 1595, the royal physician to Queen Elizabeth, prescribed
 a mixture of "muck, amber, gold, pearl and unicorn's horn"
 to relieve the British Ambassador's constipation.

-People long ago thought that a sneeze was a sign that death
 was near, so they started saying "God bless you" as a kind
 of condolence for what might be a last "Achoo."