It was the Department of Energy that Jimmy Carter established. This was mostly due to the fact that he was one of the first presidents concerned with energy conservation in the US. <span />
Thomas Jefferson was concerned about the Louisiana purchase as the land was unexplored as Louis and Clark had only gone through a small section of the land. Also the land would add a lot of land for the United States witch was still developing as a country so that means that it could be left useless and unexplored and no people could live there
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So by most definitions, the relationship between Congress and the Postal Service is dysfunctional, at best. But according to a report from the Congressional Research Service in January 2012, there is nothing specifically in Title 39 that requires the Postal Service to deliver the mail on Saturdays.