Thursday, April 9, 2009

vintage post office dept. buttons

Pretty sweet, huh? These are circa 1940 or so, before the governmental Post Office Department became the United States Postal Service in 1971, a fiscally independent agency.

3 comments:

His Decemberist said...

Where did you find these? (BTW, the USPS is still a federal agency.)

Lea Redmond said...

Oh - I get it now. It's still a federal agency, it's just fiscally independent. Thanks for letting me know!

I found the buttons on eBay. There are tons of them.

hint said...

My friend Genevieve pointed me to your web site and blog...

OMG you're a miniature junky too! Love the buttons and hope to connect more with you over the small things :)

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