Letter writing long has been used as a means of delivering information both public and private. When the United States was but a weak confederation of colonies along the East Coast, the Continental Congress named Benjamin Franklin the first Postmaster General in 1775. The postal system that Franklin oversaw served to connect the inhabitants of the new nation by guaranteeing a free flow of information and bolstering the growth of commerce.
Before Texas was an independent nation, letters were delivered across it via a haphazard process of any means available. Typically, this resulted in a long and laborious route for a letter that might never even see its destination. In December of 1835, the Texas Provisional Government created by ordinance a Post Office Department and subsequently named John Rice Jones as its first Postmaster General. Once it joined the United States of America, Texas was integrated into the existing American postal system from which it and its citizens continue to benefit.
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