1865 adhesive label of S.A. Taylor’s Albany Letter Express

c. 1970

In early March 1970 most of the postal employees of New York City went on strike causing near commercial paralysis. Postmaster General Winton Blount responded to this emergency by issuing a special order of March 18, 1970 temporarily suspending the Post Office Department's monopoly on carriage of first-class mail. The founders of the Albany Letter Express responded to this challenge by forming a company for the delivery of mail in and around Albany, NY.