Post Office

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The inscription on the New York Post Office Building at Eighth Avenue, "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds," is not the motto of the U.S. Postal Service. In fact, the U.S. Postal Service has no official motto. The sentence appears in the works of Herodotus, a fifth century BC Greek historian and writer, and describes the expedition of the Greeks against the Persians under Cyrus, which took place about 500 BC. The inscription was supplied by the architectural firm that designed the New York General Post Office.