Note: The following is part of a series of columns looking at the history of the postal service in Georgia and Bulloch County. The nation’s postal system rapidly expanded: while in 1800 there were 20,817 miles of post roads, in 1830 the number had grown to 94,052 miles. In fact, at this time just the post office’s 8,700 postmasters made up 3/4 of the entire civilian work-force of the U.S. “federal” government.