NAPS Chat

NAPS Chat

Weekly Legislative Insights Podcast

NAPS Chat is a weekly podcast intended to inform NAPS members about the latest legislative and political goings-on within our nation’s capital. Hosted by NAPS Director of Legislative and Political Affairs, Bob Levi, naps.rl@naps.org. You can subscribe to NAPS Chat on iTunes and Spotify.

June 30, 2026 | Episode 245

Postal Service 1776 -- Delivering Independence for America

U.S. Postal Service historians Steve Kochersperger and Junemarie Brandt join Bob to recount the rocky paths and surprising places that our emerging national postal service used to convey correspondence, news, and the Declaration of Independence itself, among the original thirteen colonies, on and around July 4, 1776.   

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US Postal Service Historian Steve Kochersperger and Senior Research Analyst for Postal History Junemarie Brandt 

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