This Smithsonian Snapshot celebrates the April 3, 1860, anniversary of the Pony Express. In 1860, a relay system of horses began to carry mail across the 1,966-mile “central route” between St. Joseph, ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — The Pony Express Museum is celebrating a major milestone honoring the famous, but short-lived, mail service. On April 3, 1860, the first rider left St. Joseph, and ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — The Pony Express ran for less than two years, but the legacy of the then-revolutionary mail service lives on in St. Joseph. The Pony Express National Museum at 914 ...

The Barbados Postal Service (BPS) has once again suspended mail services to the United States and its dependencies, this time ...