First women: From the beginning, women have shaped USPS March is Women’s History Month, a time to recognize the contributions of women to the nation’s progress. Women have been shaping postal history since 1775, when Mary Katherine Goddard was appointed as the first woman postmaster in Baltimore. Goddard served under Postmaster General Benjamin Franklin. Not […]
Postal pioneer: Jackie Strange, first woman DPMG, dies Strange, a 41-year postal employee and the first woman to serve as Deputy Postmaster General, died Feb. 1. She was 87. Strange joined USPS as a temporary clerk in 1946, when the organization was still called the Post Office Department. She rose through the ranks and served […]
“Jackie Strange joined the Post Office Department as a temporary clerk in 1946 while still in college. She worked her way up through the system, often as the first women in her managerial positions. Rising from work as a temporary clerk, she was promoted to postmaster, then acting manager of mail operations, followed by a […]