Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Story of Our Post Office: The Greatest Government Department in All Its Phases HE visitor to Washington City descries the pure, constant, beautiful monument and the' dome of the majestic Capitol as he rides into town. He goes to his hotel, or visits his more or less hospitable relations. Then he begins the task of seeing the sights. He has allotted to him so many days in which to see such a number of sights, and that makes it a mathematical certainty that he must see such a number of sights per day. He visits the vaults of the Treasury Department, where the mil lions and millions of gold and silver coin are piled in great sacks; spends an hour. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.