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  Our Postal Business
Stamped envelopes and stamped wrappers are sold by the post office at the usual rates of postage, with the cost of the paper added.
The purpose of what is known, in connection with the post office, as the "Special Delivery System", is to insure the delivery of any letter or package to the person, to whom it is addressed, as soon as it reaches his post office.
At all post offices, authorized to send money orders, proper blanks can be had on which the sender can write his order.
www.bestrealdeals.com /money/postal_business.html   (1504 words)

  
  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Post office   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
A post office is a facility (in most countries, a government one) where the public can purchase postage stamps for mailing correspondence or merchandise, and also drop off or pick up packages or other special-delivery items.
Post offices also rent post-office boxes to people and businesses who prefer not to have mail delivered to their home or office.
In many countries, post offices include other functions, such as a place to pick up various government forms, to apply for passports and driving licences to send money to others, etc. In some countries, the post office functions as a financial bank and/or a central place to use public telephones.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Post_office   (1175 words)

  
 Penny Black - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Following the acceptance by the general public of the postage stamps and the ridicule of the Mulready letter sheets, which were produced at the same time, vast supplies of the latter were given to government departments, such as the tax office, for official use.
A few examples exist postally used which probably originate from the Post Office circulars which were sent out as notification of the new stamps which were being brought into use.
Most of the cancelled examples are from trials which were made for cancellation types, inks and experiments with their removal which led to the change from fl to red stamps and vice versa for the cancellations.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Penny_Black   (1007 words)

  
 The British Postal Museum & Archive - Circulars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Post Office Circulars were first introduced in 1859 and were published weekly.
Circulars can be a valuable source of information for local postal historians as the date of the opening and/or closure of a post office would have been reported in the Circulars.
This Circular for 1928 revealed that an experimental air service between Liverpool and Belfast was carried out between 24 and 29 September that year.
www.postalheritage.org.uk /collections/archive/localhistory/circulars   (618 words)

  
 The Rossiter Annual Lecture 2002
The function of a post office business is to give the customer what has been advertised as available as a service and to deal with that service efficiently by having relevant business and work practices and outside contracts in place and to make a profit.
Post Office staff had to learn and then use these regulations and forms in order to deal with the public need for transmission of mails by the new UPU rules.
The Russian Post Office said that this was due to the involvement of the Chinese Eastern Railway which joined the trans Siberian Railway in the north of Manchuria.
www.rossitertrust.com /rossiter_lecture_2006.html   (6730 words)

  
 POST OFFICE IN PARADISE - Domestic Mail Covers
When the Honolulu post office was established late in 1850, there was no immediate effect on handling domestic letters because the Honolulu post office at first was interested primarily in mail to or from foreign destinations.
ith the exception of letters sent under the free franking privilege or letters sent without stamps because a post office had run out of its supply, all covers sent in the domestic mail from August 1, 1859, to the end of Hawaii's postal period on June 14, 1900, were franked with Hawaiian postage stamps.
When country post offices ordered too many of the 2¢ or 3¢ cards, the central post office refused to redeem them.
www.hawaiianstamps.com /dmcovers.html   (2227 words)

  
 Ken Lawrence: Before the Penny Black
For purposes of this essay, mail is defined as written communication carried from one predetermined place (post or post office) to another on scheduled rounds at uniform rates by a disinterested third party (the postal system), and stamps are printed tokens that denote the franking privilege or prepayment of postage.
According to the pseudonymous 1883 author, De Velayer's post was described in an 1838 pamphlet by M. Piron of Paris.
These mailboxes were cleared three times a day, the letters delivered to the central post office, the billets removed (so they could not be used again), and the letters sent on their way.
www.norby.dk /btpb.html   (3164 words)

  
 National Postal Museum
Confederate postage was not recognized by U.S. post offices, and postmasters were instructed to forward mail to the Confederacy to the Dead Letter Office, where it was to be returned to senders.
In the South, John H. Reagan of Texas was named postmaster general of the Confederate States of America shortly after the Confederacy was formed in February 1861.
By November 1866, only 3,234 of the 8,902 prewar post offices in the South were operating in the federal system.
www.postalmuseum.si.edu /exhibits/2a6_anationdivided.html   (392 words)

  
 Appeal of P.S. Docket No. 5/15 -- DANCO, DANZIG, KINGS, KINGS ENTERPRISES
Complainant specifically alleges, referring to one of such circulars a copy of which is attached to the complaint, that by means of such circulars, respondents represent, directly or indirectly, in substance and effect, whether by affirmative statements, omissions or implication, that:
This circular is an advertisement for a booklet entitled "Cash in on News Clippings", and a directory of firms seeking homeworkers, each priced at $3.00.
Also, under both plans, homeworkers must pay respondents for additional copies of the circulars, or must pay for having the circular reproduced, when the initially furnished supply is exhausted.
www.usps.com /judicial/1976deci/5-15d.htm   (1444 words)

  
 Post Office
The Portland post office is located at 130 Village Drive, behind the main office of the Farmers Bank.
We recommend putting your street number on both sides of the mailbox to make it easy for the post office and emergency vehicles to find your home.
(Usually, a mailbox will receive a pile of grocery circulars and other circulars all together once a week.) You can get your household removed from Advo's mailing list by clicking here: http://advo.com/consumersupport.html and filling out a simple form.
www.portlandtn.com /post_office.htm   (357 words)

  
 Patent Medicine History
To give some idea of the size of his operations, by the mid 1890’s he was sending two hundred thousand circulars daily at a cost of about $300.00 a day for postage (a letter did not cost 32¢ in those days).
Frank J. Cheney was, for a period of years around the turn of the century, President of The Proprietary Association of America.
The attack on the patent medicine industry was also taken up by the United States Post Office Department through the agency of the mail fraud order.
www.bottlebooks.com /medicinf.htm   (1304 words)

  
 Department of Energy - Competitive Sourcing
If you have any questions concerning a particular document's applicability, please contact DOE's Competitive Sourcing/A-76 Office.
OMB Circular A-76: Oversight and Implementation Issues, GAO Testimony T-GGD-98-146, June 4, 1998
Interview with the Administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) Ms.
management.energy.gov /A76.htm   (377 words)

  
 Scene7 - Clients
Office Depot, Inc. Founded in 1986, is one of the world's largest sellers of office products and an industry leader in every distribution channel, including stores, direct mail, contract delivery, the Internet and business-to-business electronic commerce.
Viking Office Products, a wholly owned subsidiary, currently operates one of the industry's leading direct mail marketers of office products worldwide.
Office Depot utilizes Scene7's Dynamic Imaging solution to provide detailed zoom and re-sizing of products across its e-commerce website.
www.scene7.com /clients/index.asp   (7978 words)

  
 Guide- Blacksburg VA.
A proposal for an office building complex to be built on the present town parking lot.
The bulk of the collection is comprised of subject files West kept while she was serving on the Board of Supervisors.
These files contain inter- and intra- office county government correspondence and memos, legal opinions, government documents, reports and studies, many of which include maps; and clippings.
spec.lib.vt.edu /specgen/Bburgguide.htm   (13323 words)

  
 Crackle Glass
In our books on Crackle Glass, we show the different shapes, sizes, colors of the cruets, miniature vases, miniature pitchers, large vases, large pitchers, decanters and many other beautiful items.
If you have any pieces of crackle that you are not sure about, please send us a picture with a description to Stan Weitman, Post Office Box 1186, N. Massapequa, New York, 11758, and we will answer you as soon as possible.
If you are looking for crackle glass, you can usually find a selection on offer on ebay.
www.glass.co.nz /crackle.htm   (2439 words)

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