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	Postal System Turkey
		Postal charges vary for different services depending on destination.
		Post restante letters should be addressed "postrestant" to the central post-office Merkez Postanesi, in the town of your choice.
		There is also an express postal service (APS) operating to 90 countries for letters, documents and small packages.
	www.gofethiye.com /turkiye/postal.asp (199 words)

	Sheet Music Plus - Help Shipping
		Ships by air to your country's postal system, then by ground to final destination.
		Ships by air to your country's postal system, then by 1st class to final destination.
		The person who receives the order is responsible for paying all costs associated with moving their package through their country's customs or import tax system, and we cannot make refunds to customers who do not receive shipments because they have declined to pay these costs.
	www.sheetmusicplus.com /store/help_shipping.html?cart=50713254120 (1641 words)

	Stamp Out the Rate Hike: What's at Stake (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Thomas Jefferson supported this with calls for a postal service that allowed citizens to gain "full information of their affairs," where ideas could "penetrate the whole mass of the people." Along with James Madison, he paved the way for a service that gave smaller political journals a voice.
		The postal system is based on policies of public service and democratic values.
		It is imperative that Congress, which is ultimately responsible, intervene to protect the postal subsidy for small publications that is the foundation for the free press in the United States.
	action.freepress.net /freepress/postal_explanation.html (1367 words)

	Postal System
		The postal system is a network of postal facilities serving people in all parts of Canada, of transportation services linking post offices, and thousands of people dedicated to transmitting mail.
		The Gateway postal plant near the international airport in Mississauga, Ontario, covers 10 ha under one roof and is one of 30 mechanized postal plants in Canada.
		The modern postal system began in England with the introduction of the adhesive POSTAGE STAMP by Rowland Hill in 1837.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?ArticleId=A0006427 (3094 words)

	US Postal Service - MSN Encarta
		The postal system, formerly known as the Post Office Department, was reorganized as the U.S. Postal Service under the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970, which became effective in July 1971.
		The changes in the postal system stemmed from four basic provisions of the Postal Reorganization Act: elimination of politics from postal management; adequate financing authority; establishment of a postal career service, allowing collective bargaining between management and employees; and creation of an independent commission for setting of postal rates.
		The Postal Service is directed by an 11-member board of governors, 9 of whom are appointed by the president on a bipartisan basis with the advice and consent of the U.S. Senate.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761570336/Postal_Service_United_States.html (639 words)

	National Postal Museum
		By definition, it is a study of the postal system or any part of it.
		The postal rates are an involved study unto themselves.
		The postal regulation of 1794 directed that each piece of paper should be charged the single letter rate.
	www.postalmuseum.si.edu /statepostalhistory/studyofpostalsystem.html (1516 words)

	Postal Stamps - World Numbering System
		The Universal Postal Union has introduced the WNS, the WADP Numbering System which is being managed by the WADP Secretariat for the members of the World Association for the Development of Philately (WADP) which are all the UPU members and their philatelic partners.
		Postal authorities will also be able to better recognise fraudulent stamps being used on mail within the postal system.
		Once the system is in force the FIP will follow-up by submitting a motion to the Congress, stipulating that any stamp issued after a certain deadline must have an allocated WNS number in order to be eligible for competitions in FIP exhibitions.
	www.pwmo.org /articles/wns.htm (1127 words)

	National Postal Services
		The commercial value of the postal system was recognized in 1969 when it was made a public corporation.
		The Postal Service is managed by a board of governors, which selects a postmaster general and deputy postmaster general as chief executive officers.
		The first postal system in the British colonies of North America was started by the Massachusetts General Court in 1639.
	www.lookd.com /postal/national.html (1530 words)

	Omaha.com Home Page
		The Postal Service, consulting with several federal agencies, contractors, scientists and the Royal Mail of Britain and other postal agencies overseas, is proceeding with the first stages of a long-term plan to secure its sprawling system, in which almost every collection box is an unguarded portal.
		In theory, if DNA from one of the threats were present in the dust, the system would detect it and contaminated mail could be stopped before the first trucks rolled out of the postal distribution center.
		The Postal Service is planning to award $200 million in contracts this fall to install the detection systems.
	www.omaha.com /index.php?u_np=0&u_pg=54&u_sid=517266 (887 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mail is part of the postal system which itself is a system wherein written documents typically enclosed in envelopes, and also small packages containing other matter, are delivered to destinations around the world.
		The world-wide postal system comprising the individual national postal systems of the world's self-governing states is co-ordinated by the Universal Postal Union, which among other things sets international postage rates, defines standards for postage stamps and operates the system of International Reply Coupons.
		Postal mail is, however, still widely in use for business (due to the particular legal standing of signatures in some situations and in many jurisdictions, etiquette, or transmission of things that cannot be done by computer, as a particular texture, or, obviously, items in packages) and for some personal communication.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=postal_system (3652 words)

	EPIC Postal Privacy Page
		Postal company Pitney Bowes is a prime supporter of Intelligent Mail, and that company has supported the system, arguing that it can provide data-rich transactional information about senders, recipients, and even the contents of the mail.
		The American Postal Workers Union (APWU) claims that if junk mail subsidies were ended, the Postal Service would stand on a stronger financial footing: "The current USPS financial crisis is directly attributable to the $12 billion in postage discounts it gives annually to major mailers and direct mail firms for pre-sorting their mail.
		The commission cited the system as a way to improve the security of the postal network, as well as a means of enabling businesses and consumers track their mail.
	www.epic.org /privacy/postal (3248 words)

	Postal Workers
		Students will better understand the working of the United States Postal Service by participating in a classroom postal system.
		Explain the attributes of a postal worker: what they wear, the tools they use, what the drive.
		Show a picture of the average postal worker's vehicle and ask students if they have seen one before.
	teacherlink.ed.usu.edu /tlresources/units/Byrnes-S2000/Hansen/postalr.html (509 words)

	Postal Services History
		The system was enlarged under the Han Empire (202 BC-AD 220), when the Chinese came in contact with the Romans and their postal system.
		Spurred by popular discontent over postal rates, the English educator and tax reformer Rowland Hill formulated proposals on reforming the postal system between 1835 and 1837.
		His solution to postal problems was simple a uniform rate of postage regardless of distance and prepayment of postage through the use of adhesive stamps sold by the post office.
	www.lookd.com /postal/history.html (1136 words)

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		At the current moment, the United States postal system only delivers mail to physical addresses, and the person sending the mail is responsible for knowing that physical address.
		An alias system should be simple: I sign up for a unique name, and I tell the postal service what physical address mail sent to that name should be delivered to.
		If the postal service supported aliases, then the above would be all the information you would ever need to send me mail, now and for the rest of my life, and it would not matter how many times I moved or changed physical addresses.
	www.category4.com /blog/2006/12/03/what-if-the-postal-system-no-longer-needed-you-to-know-the-physical-addresses-of-the-person-you-wanted-to-send-mail-to (939 words)

	The Early Postal System
		It also launched three guiding principles that shaped the United States postal service: that it be self supporting, return any profit to the Treasury, and that Congress, not the postmaster general, was to establish the post roads.
		The postal service was often able to turn a profit over the years, but it also suffered the inevitable lean years.
		Under an 1825 law, postmasters received no salary, but were entitled to a share of their postal revenues at a scale ranging from 30 percent for the first $100 worth of postal business they did each quarter to 8 percent of all above $2400 until the commission reached its maximum of $2000.
	www.connerprairie.org /historyonline/postal.html (2489 words)

	How did Japan's postal service get so rich? - By Daniel Engber - Slate Magazine
		For 130 years, the postal system has served as a local savings bank for anyone with a cent to spare.
		Postal savings systems were popular because they offered financial services to everyone, including poor, rural people who weren't served by private, big-city institutions.
		The British postal banking system was privatized and sold to the Alliance and Leicester Group 15 years ago.
	www.slate.com /id/2124035 (600 words)

	INDIAN POSTAL SERVICES
		One hundred and fifty years after the postal services came to the Asian continent, the India postal system with 1,55,618 post offices and over 5,66,000 employees working in unison, is considered the largest postal network in the world.
		India’s postal system was initially based on the model that the British left behind.
		The Indian system broadened the vision of the postal system to reach the entire population of the country.
	www.gatewayforindia.com /articles/postal.htm (1212 words)

	The Global Postal Code System
		If the NAC represents an area with several houses, the Global Postal Code of each house in the area is the NAC plus a locally defined third character string which people can define by themselves using a family name, a location name or a name of their choice.
		The writing convention of the Global Postal Code on a letter is to write the Global Postal Code on an extra line at the bottom of the current address and domestic postal codes no matter what kind of language and address order are used.
		Moreover, since the current distribution structure of postal corporations are not optimal, this mail sorting program also allows the post offices to adjust their mail transportation routes to send mail more efficiently.
	www.nacgeo.com /nacsite/documents/postal.asp (1588 words)

	Postal System
		The Indian post office, founded in 1837 and issuing the first Indian postage stamp in 1852, is the largest postal systems in the world.
		Postal Life Insurance (PLI) has continued to expand and by March 31, 1999, it garnered 23.9 lakh PLI policies with an aggregate assured sum of Rs.
		The system is operated by an independent government agency called the United States Postal Service.
	www.diehardindian.com /infra/postal.htm (501 words)

	The Postal Museum
		Postal Services from the Arab conquest till the modern age The Caliphate Mo'awia Bin Abi Sufian is said to be the first to introduce a postal system during Islamic rule.
		Postal services were carried out by the tax collecting office and the person change was called "Al Dowidar" or the " Prince of the Mail".
		In 1931 the Postal Department was transferred to Cairo at its present location at A1-Ataba Square, which is one of the oldest in Cairo.
	www.touregypt.net /museums/postal/postal_museum.htm (895 words)

	Amazon.com: "postal control": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Richert memoirs and the many letters intercepted by postal control in 1918 bear eloquent witness to the contrary.91 In a seven-week period from mid-February to early April 1918, the Field...
		The postal control report noted in October 1941: `One of the present characteristics of the French population is that individuals are turning in...
		Postal control had an acute understanding of the interactive nature of the home front and fighting front and of the ways in...
	www.amazon.com /phrase/postal-control (554 words)

	Postmanet: Turning the Postal System into a Generic Digital Communication Mechanism
		The postal system is a truly global ``network'' that reaches a far greater percentage of the world's human population.
		At the systems level, for example, due to proactive replication or premature retransmission by the sender, either across multiple mobile storage devices, or across the Internet and the postal system, the receiver may need to discard the duplicates.
		A key element of the system is an asynchronous communication mechanism that allows applications running on mobile wireless clients to continue to function as communication with a remote server occurs in the background.
	www.cs.princeton.edu /~rywang/postmanet_paper (6528 words)

	USPS Postal Manifesting System
		Postal manifesting also allows you to take advantage of a variety of postal discounts and automation incentives.
		The transaction is confirmed by pressing "P" to print; the system then automatically generates a permit label containing the permit and identification number for that particular piece.
		Malvern's USPS Manifesting System can optionally be configured to work in a multi-station network environment, or interfaced real-time with your host system for instantaneous billing and customer service applications.
	www.malvernsys.com /d09.htm (484 words)

	PostalMag.com! Reform Watch
		Unfortunately, for postal reform efforts, there were many other stakeholders in the postal community that were left out of the process.
		There are too many "the Postal Service should explore this further" comments in the report, instead of "this is how the Postal Service should do it." In many cases, the Postal Service already knows there is a problem, and was hoping the Commission would find solutions.
		But it would do the system good, and add value to America's capitalist economic system, if thousands, if not millions of businesses, were able to take advantage of lower rates (in exchange for standardization and presorting/preparation), thereby adding billions of pieces of more valuable mail to America and the postal system.
	www.postalworkersonline.com /reformwatch.htm (3395 words)

	National Postal Museum
		To placate the banking industry's concerns over the new postal system, legislators had built in a cap on deposits and relatively low interest rates.
		Planned to be self-sustaining, the system also had to be dependable, especially in its ability to cover withdrawals made by the account holders.
		The system continued to flourish through the Second World War, but by 1948 higher interest rates and proven reform in the banking sector brought about a downward trend for postal savings from which the system did not rebound.
	www.postalmuseum.si.edu /museum/1d_PostalSavings.html (821 words)

	Postal System of Japan in the 1800s
		While a double envelope system was implemented (ie the letter was sent to the foreign PO in one envelope using Japanese stamps and then removed and franked with foreign stamps and dispatched) it was cumbersome and not favored.
		Systems developed whereby covers bore Japanese and foreign stamps (mixed franking) and were directed to the foreign post office with a special marking and then dispatched to the destination.
		Postal stationery (postal cards, etc - with pre printed indicia of payment of postage) were first issued in June of 1871, a few months after the stamps.
	www.baxleystamps.com /litho/post.shtml (2893 words)

	Postal Service
		The postal system is where written documents (usually enclosed in envelopes or written on postcards) and small packages travel all over the world.
		The Universal Postal Union is in charge of the world-wide postal system.
		Mail systems use what most countries call postal codes to get mail where it needs to be faster.
	library.thinkquest.org /04oct/00451/postalsystem.htm (1052 words)

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