Humans made it easier to communicate over long distances by delivering their message with a postal system. During the Revolutionary War, when there was not any internet or telephones to provide immediate communication over long distances, Americans needed a way to communicate with each other (Mullen). “Using a tavern for the mail may seem odd, but it was common in England for taverns and coffeehouses to be used” (Obringer). That is why three months after the battles of Lexington and Concord, the Continental Congress established the Post Office Department and appointed Benjamin Franklin as its first Postmaster General (Kiger). Before Benjamin Franklin was the American Postmaster General, he was also the British’s Postmaster General of the thirteen colonies (Kiger). When he was appointed Postmaster General for America, he “set about replicating the system that he’d built for the British Crown” (Kiger). Speed and organization were improved after postal offices and routes were created. After Benjamin Franklin served for one year, Richard Bache and Ebenezer Hazard were Postmaster Generals appointed under the Continental Congress between 1776 to 1789. “On September 26, 1789, George Washington appointed Samuel Osgood of Massachusetts as the first Postmaster General under the Constitution” (Bellis).