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	United Kingdom Postmaster General - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The king's letters to his subjects are known to have been carried by relays of couriers as long ago as the 15th century.
		The title of "Postmaster General" was abolished under the Post Office Act of 1969.
		A new public authority governed by a chairman was established under the name of the "Post Office." The position of "Postmaster General" was replaced with "Minister of Posts and Telecommunications".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_Kingdom_Postmaster_General (292 words)

	Postmaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Postmaster or Postmistress refers to the head of an individual Post Office.
		When a postmaster is responsible for an entire mail distribution organization (usually sponsored by a national government) the title of Postmaster General is commonly used.
		Responsibilities of a postmaster typically include management of a centralized mail distribution facility, establishment of letter carrier routes, supervision of letter carriers, and enforcement of the organization's rules and procedures.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Postmaster (109 words)

	THE PATH FOR JAPAN?: AN EXAMINATION OF PRODUCT LIABILITY LAWS IN THE UNITED STATES, THE UNITED KINGDOM, AND JAPAN
		A substantial difference among the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan is the emphasis on litigation and the preferred methods of handling disputes or complaints.
		The exclusion of sellers from liability is significant because, unlike the United States, where the seller is equated with the manufacturer, the retailer in the United Kingdom and Japan is on equal footing with the consumer.
		The United Kingdom has been operating under such a standard for twenty years since the change was mandated by the EU.
	www.bc.edu /bc_org/avp/law/lwsch/journals/bciclr/23_2/06_TXT.htm (6724 words)

	1958 - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		May 21 - United Kingdom Postmaster General Ernest Marples announces that from December, Subscriber Trunk Dialling will be introduced in the Bristol area.
		May 30 - The bodies of unidentified soldiers killed in action during World War II and the Korean War are buried at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery.
		December 21 - General de Gaulle is elected president of France with 78,5% of the votes.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /1958.htm (1693 words)

	Rutherford B. Hayes
		The retirement from circulation of United States notes with the capacity of legal tender in private contracts is a step to be taken in our progress toward a safe and stable currency which should be accepted as the policy and duty of the Government and the interest and security of the people.
		The issue of United States notes during the late civil war with the capacity of legal tender between private individuals was not authorized except as a means of rescuing the country from imminent peril.
		The reports of the General of the Army and of his subordinates present a full and detailed account of the military operations for the suppression of hostilities among the Indians of the Ute and Apache tribes, and praise is justly awarded to the officers and troops engaged for promptness, skill, and courage displayed.
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	Andrew Johnson
		Of this determination, however, the United States had not received any notice or intimation, and so soon as the information was received by the Government care was taken to make known its dissent to the Emperor of France.
		Counsel has been employed by the Government to defend citizens of the United States on trial for capital offenses in Canada, and a discontinuance of the prosecutions which were instituted in the courts of the United States against those who took part in the expedition has been directed.
		Political and commercial interests of the United States are not unlikely to be affected in some degree by events which are transpiring in the eastern regions of Europe, and the time seems to have come when our Government ought to have a proper diplomatic representation in Greece.
	www.infoplease.com /t/hist/state-of-the-union/78.html (5410 words)

	The UPU and it's Members
		The results of the General Revision of the Convention, completed by the ELC in 1961, were submitted to the 1964 Vienna Congress.
		As regards the body to be created, there were two general tendencies in the ELC: that a Special Committee within the meaning of article 16 of the Convention (Brussels 1952) should be set up, and that a Subcommittee of the ELC should be created.
		This Agreement, approved by the UN General Assembly on the recommendation of the ECOSOC, was signed on 4 July 1947 and went into force at the same time as the Paris Convention on 1 July 1948.
	www.icann.org /tlds/post1/TLD-Annex-C1-Constitution.htm (7872 words)

	United States (from postal system) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Besides the 48 contiguous states that occupy the middle latitudes of the continent, the United States includes the state of Alaska, at the northwestern extreme of North America, and the island state of Hawaii, in the mid-Pacific Ocean.
		For most of those who have come to its shores, it means the ideal of freedom—the right to worship as one chooses, to seek a job appropriate to one's skills and interests, to be judged equally before the law.
		The federal government of the United States was created by the Constitution, which went into operation in 1789 when the first Congress convened and George Washington took the oath of office as president.
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	PDJ005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In general, the security of an encryption program is related to its algorithm and the length of the key.
		United States Information Agency, 87 F.3d 1429 (D.C.C. 1996), a part-time employee of Voice of America was permitted to challenge a prepublication review procedure that did not authorize any form of punishment.
		Protected Expression Because this case arises in the context of a comprehensive scheme regulating the export of commodities from the United States, it is necessary, as a threshold matter, to determine whether the First Amendment applies to Professor Junger's claims at all.
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		The legislation codified the historic mission of the organization: The United States Postal Service shall be operated as a basic and fundamental service provided by the government of the United States, authorized by the Constitution, created by an Act of Congress, and supported by the people.
		Generating Revenues to Support the Mission The universal service structure and the various public services are supported by the prices charged for the core business services of the Postal Service.
		Revenue Generation "Gateway" Opportunities Over the next five years, the Postal Service will be challenged to generate substantial new revenues to replace the expected loss due to electronic diversion and other changes in the market.
	www.usps.com /strategicdirection/_txt/fiveyear.txt (18037 words)

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		Predicting the future is a role perhaps better played by soothsayers than Postmasters General, but I believe that hard-copy communications will be a mainstay of the American economy in the decade ahead, and, in partnership with new electronic technologies, can grow dramatically in support of global commerce.
		Foreign postal administrations, such as the United Kingdom's Royal Mail and the Dutch and Danish Posts, have expanded their operations across borders in order to target non-domestic customers, and some are even investing in private delivery companies to increase their international business.
		As part of the process, the Postmaster General will bring together postal executives and representatives from the four major unions and three management associations to discuss corporate issues and to develop a long-term (10-year) framework agreement to outline objectives and approaches consistent with the GAO report.
	www.usps.com /strategicdirection/_txt/stratpln.txt (17942 words)

	May 21 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		1934 - Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint each of its citizens.
		Her story soon became one of Japan's most notorious scandals.
		1958 - United Kingdom Postmaster General Ernest Marples announces that from December, Subscriber Trunk Dialling will be introduced in the Bristol area.
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	cunard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Master of each ship to furnish to the Postmaster General the usual abstracts of his logs and certificates showing the due delivery of mails.
		To convey all parcel mails from New York to Queenstown and Liverpool and all mails from the United Kingdom to the United States of America which the Postmaster General or his officers may require to be conveyed.
		Not to convey in any steamships conveying mails any article which in the opinion of the Postmaster General is likely to endanger the mails.
	www.lusitania.net /cunard.htm (2125 words)

	REPORT OF THE POSTMASTER GENERAL
		The amount due by late postmasters, whose terms of office expired between the 1st of July, 1845, and June 30, 1860, for the collection of which suits were instituted prior to June 30, 1860, as stated in the last annual report of this office, was ----------------------------------------------------- $158,201.32
		Of the said sum of $202,075.92 there is due by late postmasters in California, on accounts prior to June 30, 1857, the sum of $64,315.94, which, as is alleged in the last annual report of this office, may be regarded as lost to the United States, the defendants being insolvent.
		From the 1st of July last to the 10th instant, 2,673 "collection" drafts have been issued, for balances due by late postmasters of the last fiscal year, amounting, in the aggregate, to $362,646.61, with the most flattering prospects of the speedy collection of the greater portion of that sum.
	www.wisc.edu /wendt/frus/829s.html (2832 words)

	Former U.S. Postmaster General William J. Henderson Joins Acxiom^® Corporation Board of Directors
		Henderson, a 30-year veteran of the U.S. Postal Service, was the 71st postmaster general of the United States and the fifth career employee to lead the world's largest postal system.
		From 1994 until his appointment as Postmaster General and Chief Executive Officer, Henderson served as Chief Operating Officer of the USPS with responsibility for nationwide postal operations, the daily processing, transportation, and delivery of more than 650 million pieces of mail to over 130 million addresses.
		Founded in 1969, Acxiom (Nasdaq: ACXM) is based in Little Rock, Arkansas, with locations throughout the United States and with operations in the United Kingdom, France, Spain and Australia.
	www.acxiom.com /default.aspx?ID=1948&DisplayID=18 (883 words)

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		United Kingdom in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest
		United Kingdom in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2003
		United Kingdom in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2004
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	Articles - Edward Short, Baron Glenamara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Right Honourable Edward Watson Short, Baron Glenamara, CH, Privy Council of the United KingdomPC (born 17 December 1912) is a former Labour MP for Newcastle upon Tyne, who was a minister during the Labour Governments of Harold Wilson.
		He became a notorious figure among fans of offshore radio because he was United Kingdom Postmaster-General (then the minister with responsibility for broadcasting) in 1967 when the Marine etc. Offences and Broadcasting Act, which clamped down on the "pirate" stations, was passed.
		He was Chairman of Cable and Wireless Ltd from 1976 to 1980.
	www.gaple.com /articles/Edward_Short?mySession=e0191f0924c56e0e7cc001110b030a5a (420 words)

	Grumpy DM: Bring Back The Postmaster General
		To do this I will blog about the contents of my letterbox (and yours if you send me some of the junk masquerading as mail you receive) and generally be a grumpy old man about many other areas of the industry.
		All we need is for all direct mail to be approved by a committee made up of some of my old chums and colleagues under the iron fist of a 21st century Postmaster General.
		The rest would be subject to an overprinting with a Postmaster General warning, in much the same way as fag packets are plastered with Government Health warnings today.
	grumpydm.blogspot.com /2005/03/bring-back-postmaster-general.html (787 words)

	1958 Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		January 23 - Following a two-day general strike, dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez was overthrown by a militar-popular uprising.
		March 8 - USS Wisconsin is decomissioned, leaving the United States Navy without an active battleship for the first time since 1896.
		Last legal female circumcision in the United States.
	www.variedtastes.com /encyclopedia/1958 (2079 words)

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		Names can serve other purposes as well, such as the Chinese generation name which identifies the generation of the bearer, or the names used by some African cultures which describe the order in which siblings were born.
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	1958 Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		* May 21 - United Kingdom Postmaster General Ernest Marples announces that from December, subscriber trunk diallingSubscriber Trunk Dialling will be introduced in the Bristol area.
		* December 5 - subscriber trunk diallingSubscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the UK by the Elizabeth II of the United KingdomQueen when she dials a call from Bristol to Edinburgh and speaks to the Lord Provost.
		* December 21 - General de Gaulle is elected president of France with 78,5% of the votes.
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	postmaster - OneLook Dictionary Search
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		Phrases that include postmaster: postmaster general, electronic postmaster, postmaster general of the united states, u.s.
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		General Demographic Characteristics by Race for the United States: 2000
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	Find in a Library: Annual report of the Postmaster General of the United States : hearing before the Subcommittee on ...
		Find in a Library: Annual report of the Postmaster General of the United States : hearing before the Subcommittee on Federal Services, Post Office, and Civil Service of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, first session, July 9, 1991.
		Annual report of the Postmaster General of the United States : hearing before the Subcommittee on Federal Services, Post Office, and Civil Service of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, first session, July 9, 1991.
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		Lord Vetinari has many reasons for doing this but one is that he is not happy with the Grand Trunk semaphore company (the clacks).
		Moist learns that in the last couple of months several people have been appointed Postmaster General and all have died, this obviously does not reassure him.
		Wandering around Ankh Moist comes across a shop 'The golem trust' run by Adora Bell Dearheart later to be known to Moist affectionately as Spike for she is the 'love' interest.
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	1958 FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		February_5 - Gamel_Abdel_Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United_Arab_Republic
		February_11 - Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Zhou_Enlai as Chinese Minister of Foreign affairs.
		December_21 - General Charles_de_Gaulle is elected president of France with 78,5% of the votes.
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	Chicago Conference - List of Delegates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Having accepted the invitation extended to them by the Government of the United States of America to be represented at an International Civil Aviation Conference;
		HAHNEMANN GUIMARAES, Solicitor General; Chairman of the Delegation
		Who met at Chicago, Illinois, on November 1, 1944, under the Temporary President of Adolf A. Berle, Jr., Chairman of the Delegation of the United States of America.
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