Note: The following is one of a series of columns looking at the first road systems in Georgia and Bulloch County. According to the "American State Papers... of the United States, Volume 7" (1834), a letter was sent out detailing the remarks of the Postmaster General to the assembled Congress on Jan. 20, 1790. He had informed them, "The existing ordinance for regulating the Post Office...has not probably ever been put fully in execution... (And) as to the revenue of the Post Office... (the) so few letters written...operate powerfully against the productiveness of the Post Office."