Post office trivia you will like

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Opening slide - blue with white letters
Image of a letter with the address just reading Jessamyn West RFD Stow Road Boxboro MA along with another image of a man and a horse-drawn cart which reads RURAL FREE DELIVERY which is also the title of this page. Some facts are listed in bullets [city delivery: 1863 mail slots: 1923] - 65% of US pop. was rural (17% now) - Can buy stamps by leaving money in the mailbox (Still! A
Yellow sldei with the cover of the book There is Always Work at the Post Office - African American Postal Workers and the Fight for Jobs, Justice and Equality by Philip Rubio. Main slide has image of Minnie Cox, a middle aged Blac women in a nice dress in a professional protrait with her name above her and facts below her: - First black female postmaster - Harassed by white supremacists in MS - Teddy Roosevelt closed their post office as punishment
Image from an old book of women getting mail at the Ladies Delivery Window with the text
Slide with very large word ROCKETEERS across the top and text underneath
Image of old farmhouse with caption
Slide with very large number 1963 across it with a sidebar image of fancy cartoonish stamps announcing the ZIP code. Caption
Image of metal mailbox shaped bank with the caption
Screenshot of a twitter thread with tweets from the @everylot_usps user
Image of two letters one just addressed to Jessamyn West in Bethel Vermont and one addressed to 'the woman who received all the other odd mail 05060' with the caption
Slide with a photo of an envelope filled with flowers. Two short lists. First is what a letter or postcard should be: Personal, Chatty, OK to be brief, The best mail is the mail you SEND. Second list is just breaking it into parts: Greeting. Connection. Anecdote. Wrap-up. Sign & Send
Image of various cool looking stamps you can use including Hip Hop stamps, Spooky stamps and The Snowy Day stamps
Image of envelopes that you can make yourself.
Covers of three books that are worth reading, from the links page: Every Stamp Tells a Story, How The Post Office Created America, The Postal Age
image of post office worker delivering mail by bicycle and my mailing address which is PO Box 345, Randolph VT 05060