The U.S. Postal Service is facing an enormous budget shortfall – and might run out of money without Congressional help. The U.S. Postal Service recently announced it was cutting 3,000 jobs and asked Congress for flexibility in reducing its costs associated with mandated retiree health benefit payments. Other possible cost cutting measures include reducing mail [...]

I knew that we weren’t the first to try to accelerate the delivery of documents using ‘high tech’ means. As a matter of fact, a bunch of folks had the idea for REALLY fast mail delivery starting over 70 years ago…  
Using ROCKETS!

April 21, 1931: Friedrich Schmiedl launched the first rocket mail (V-7 rocket) with [...]