America's Private Posts GUIDE 2: Independent Mails of New England & PA

Pomeroy, Independent Mails of Upstate NY is the first in a series of Guides entitled America's Private Posts.
The series chronicles the private mail-carrying companies of the mid to late 1800's that challenged the US
Government's Postal Service. From the beginning, the US government had a monopoly on carrying the country's mail, but it abused the role because of various lucrative contracts, cronyism, and corruption.
Postal rates were so high that entrepreneurs entered the market with lower rat...