Free Owney Family Outing
Doggie Heaven at The Shell Factory and the USPS are partnering to celebrate National Stamp Collecting Month with a free fun family event.
Join for three hours of doggie fun! Event attendees will vote to decide the winners of the Owney letter writing and photo contests. Come learn about Owney and the history of the Post Office Department’s Railway Mail Service.
In the 1880s mail was sorted aboard moving trains. Owney, a terrier mix, was adopted by mail clerks in Albany, NY. One day the mail sack that Owney was fond of sleeping on was filled with mail and thrown on a train.
Owney followed his mail sack and began a career of riding the rails. He became a good luck charm to Railway Mail Service clerks between 1890 and 1900. Working in the Railway Mail Service was highly dangerous, more than 80 mail clerks were killed in train wrecks and more than 2,000 were injured. It was said that no train ever met with trouble while Owney was aboard.
Learn more about Owney at the event and please bring a pet food donation (tax deductible) to benefit Animal Services Community Pet Pantry.
For information email debra.j.mitchell@usps.gov or call 995-2141.
Source: United States Postal Service
Free Owney Family Outing
Doggie Heaven at The Shell Factory and the USPS are partnering to celebrate National Stamp Collecting Month with a free fun family event.
Join for three hours of doggie fun! Event attendees will vote to decide the winners of the Owney letter writing and photo contests. Come learn about Owney and the history of the Post Office Department’s Railway Mail Service.
In the 1880s mail was sorted aboard moving trains. Owney, a terrier mix, was adopted by mail clerks in Albany, NY. One day the mail sack that Owney was fond of sleeping on was filled with mail and thrown on a train.
Owney followed his mail sack and began a career of riding the rails. He became a good luck charm to Railway Mail Service clerks between 1890 and 1900. Working in the Railway Mail Service was highly dangerous, more than 80 mail clerks were killed in train wrecks and more than 2,000 were injured. It was said that no train ever met with trouble while Owney was aboard.
Learn more about Owney at the event and please bring a pet food donation (tax deductible) to benefit Animal Services Community Pet Pantry.
For information email debra.j.mitchell@usps.gov or call 995-2141.
Source: United States Postal Service