The Storied History of the United States Postal Service

1870: "Neither Rain Nor Snow..."
A wood engraving of a letter carrier in the Rocky Mountains. The famed "creed" of the U.S. Postal Service is not an official slogan, but an inscription on the James Farley Post Office building in New York. The full phrasing (which was derived from a quote from Herodotus) reads, "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds."

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