Neither snow, nor rain, nor...wait a minute! by Hank Silverberg "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." That has been the unofficial motto of the United States Postal Service since it was chiseled in stone over the 8th Avenue Post Office in New York City in 1914. That was, until Donald Trump came along. The slogan actually comes from Herodotus, a Greek historian describing a group of mounted Persian messengers during a war between those two countries in 449 B.C.E. (Courtesy of USPS) An even more descriptive motto appears on the old Post Office building at Massachusetts Avenue and East Capital Street in Washington, D.C. that now houses the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum. It's called "The Letter," and the second stanza of the poem says it all: "Carrier of News and Knowledge Instrument of Trade and Industry Promoter of Mutual Acquaintance