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	DHS \| Department Subcomponents and Agencies
		The Office of Operations Coordination is responsible for monitoring the security of the United States on a daily basis and coordinating activities within the Department and with governors, Homeland Security Advisors, law enforcement partners, and critical infrastructure operators in all 50 states and more than 50 major urban areas nationwide.
		United States Citizenship and Immigration Services is responsible for the administration of immigration and naturalization adjudication functions and establishing immigration services policies and priorities.
		United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the largest investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security, is responsible for identifying and shutting down vulnerabilities in the nation’s border, economic, transportation and infrastructure security.
	www.dhs.gov /xabout/structure (1052 words)

	United States Postal Service - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The USPS is the third-largest employer in the United States (after the United States Department of Defense and Wal-Mart) and operates the largest civilian vehicle fleet in the world, with an estimated 170,000 vehicles, the majority of which are the easily identified "mail trucks," as shown in the pictures to the right.
		A branch or post office branch is a postal facility that is not the main post office and that is outside the corporate limits of the community.
		Post offices in some rural small towns without street deliveries require post office box numbers, and addressees in these towns are eligible for fee-free post office boxes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_Postal_Service (4175 words)

	United States Department of Defense - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The United States Department of Defense, abbreviated as DoD or DOD and sometimes called the Defense Department, is a civilian Cabinet organization of the United States government.
		The Establishment had the unfortunate abbreviation 'NME' (the obvious pronunciation being "enemy"), and was renamed the "Department of Defense" (abbreviated as DOD or DoD) on August 10, 1949; in addition, the secretary was given greater authority over the military departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force.
		The Department of Defense is based in The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia outside Washington, DC, across the Potomac River.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/US_Department_of_Defence (840 words)

	United States Post Office Department - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Post Office Department was the former name of the United States Postal Service when it was a Cabinet department.
		It was headed by the United States Postmaster General.
		During the Civil War, postal services in the Confederacy were provided by the Confederate Post-office Department, headed by Postmaster General John Henninger Reagan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_Post_Office_Department (158 words)

	Digital Zip Code Maps
		The introduction of ZIP Codes marked the beginning of the new age of the United States Post Office and the automation of mail handling.
		Air pressure pushes the tubes from the main post office to smaller branches in the city.
		1971: The new United States Postal Service is born as an independent agency, no longer a part of the president’s cabinet.
	www.zip-codes.com /united_states_zip_codes_timeline.asp (832 words)

	Office of the Utah Attorney General Pornography Information- Unsolicited Mail
		Take the obscene material and the envelope in which it was sent, to your local post office and ask for the matter to be investigated as a possible violation of mailing obscene or crime-inciting matter (18 U.S.C. § 1461) or mailing indecent matter on wrappers or envelopes (18 U.S.C. § 1463).
		United States Post Office Department, 397 U.S. The post office must accept whatever you classify as offensive, even if they don’t believe it is sexually oriented.
		United States Post Office Department, 397 U.S. The Supreme Court held that an individual can refuse to receive any mailings they do not want once the Postmaster General orders the sender to stop sending the material, and the prohibition does not extend merely to 'such materials' or materials similar to those previously sent.
	attygen.state.ut.us /pornography/unsolicmail.htm (1345 words)

	San Antonio Alamo Area Local - History of the United States Post Office
		As early as 1896, before many people in the United States were aware of a new mode of transportation that would eventually supplant the horse and buggy, the Post Office Department experimented with the "horseless wagon" in its search for faster and cheaper carriage of the mails.
		The Post Office Department of the Confederate States of America was established on February 21, 1861, by an Act of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States.
		The customer had to take a letter to the post office to mail it, and the addressee had to pick up the letter at the post office, Unless he or she lived in one of about 40 big cities where a carrier would deliver it to the home address for an extra penny or two.
	saaal-apwu.org /history.html (9252 words)

	National Postal Museum
		Under the appropriate, newly defined department headings, objects are classified as master example, the Museum's best examples of mint, used and unused stamps; reference example, the second-best examples of mint or unused stamps on permanent exhibit in the Philatelic Gallery; oddity; or significant item, rare, one-of-a-kind, unique and/or historically important.
		The Bureau Plate Proofs, loosely termed a department, contains approximately 40,000 proofs printed from the original plates of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing that were certified (approved, signed and dated) by Bureau and Post Office officials.
		Archival documents are those papers and maps relevant to the organization and functioning of the United States Post Office Department, its branches, post offices and staff.
	www.postalmuseum.si.edu /collection/3a_about.html (1303 words)

	Magazine Articles: P.O. Box Rural Texas
		The country post office is often the social and business center of the community and the attending postmaster, more often than not, is the unofficial local historian and town greeter.
		Inside the Millican post office is a small area to the left of the door where there are 100 post boxes.
		The post office then was part of a grocery, the present office was first used in 1940.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/texassvooa/POBox.htm (860 words)

	SHQ Online :: Volume 019 Number 2 :: ADMINISTRATIVE PROBLEMS OF THE CONFEDERATE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT I
		The postmasters were ordered to render to the department at Washington their final accounts and vouchers for postal receipts and expenditures up to May 31, together with all postage stamps and stamped envelopes belonging to the United States post office department.
		distributed to such post offices as were in the vicinity of military encampments, to the large cities, and to such of the principal and smaller towns as the number furnished by the printer.
		The law was stated with what seems to be unusual clearness, but the varied interpretations of it by the war department, the courts, and the postmaster-general increased the tension between the war and post office departments and maintained it to the end of the Confederacy's existence.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /publications/journals/shq/online/v019/n2/article_1.html (8245 words)

	Local Mail Posts in the United States
		The Private Local Posts of the United States; a study of the history of the adhesive stamps with their reprints and forgeries.
		City Despatch Post began February 1, 1842 in New York City and was purchased by the U.S. Post Office on August 16, 1842.
		Quotes circular of February 15, 1842 establishing the local, the Post Office Department letter of August 1, 1842 purchasing the local, and letters on Greig's resignation from the enterprise in late 1844.
	www.sil.si.edu /silpublications/postal-history/local-mail-posts (5060 words)

	Panama Canal Zone - Postal History
		At the time the Canal properties were turned over to the United States in 1904, the need for a postal service was of extreme importance because the postal service of the Republic of Panama ceased to operate in the Zone.
		The United States stamps were used until December 12, 1904 when they were withdrawn and replaced by Panama stamps overprinted "Canal Zone" in conformity with the provision of an executive order issued on December 3, 1904 by Secretary of War William H. Taft.
		On May 28, 1924, the Taft agreement was abrogated by the President of the United States and on July 1, 1924, United States stamps overprinted "Canal Zone" were again placed in use and supplanted the overprinted Panama stamps.
	www.czbrats.com /Articles/postal.htm (583 words)

	BOEHME v. UNITED STATES POSTAL
		No. 02-1443 UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE, as successor to the United States Post Office Department of the United States of America and All Other Occupants of the property located at 2641 E. Uintah, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80909, Defendant-Appellee.
		We affirm.(1) I. Defendant United States Postal Service (Postal Service) operates a post office facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in a building that it leases from plaintiffs.
		"It is well settled that the United States, as sovereign, is immune from suit except as it consents to be sued and that the terms of its consent to be sued in any court define the court's jurisdiction to entertain the action." Three-M Enterprises, 548 F.2d at 294.
	fsnews.findlaw.com /cases/10th/021443.html (2294 words)

	California State Railroad Museum Foundation - Great Northern Railway Post Office Car No. 42
		A primary function of the railroads in the era prior to the wide use of the airplane was the transportation of the United States mail.
		Railroad transportation offered the United States Post Office Department the fastest and most economical means to move the mail.
		Special railway post office cars were constructed to the exact specifications of the Post Office, and contained facilities which allowed for the collection and handling of mailed materials.
	www.csrmf.org /doc.asp?id=186 (429 words)

	Adventures in the Secret Service of the Post-Office Department - Adventures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		His suspicions were next directed to another office, where also the mails lay over night; but the postmaster bore a countenance so open and honest that he too was eliminated from the problem.
		He continued on to Wellington, skirmishing along the line, and observing the faces of the postmasters; but these studies in physiognomy threw no light on the mystery, as the officials of the department on the route, though far removed from central supervision, seemed to be all that their affectionate uncle at Washington could wish.
		With the exception of a general knowledge of the offices, the special agent returned but little wiser for the trip, and concluded, as the best that could be done under the circumstances, to allow the bird to flutter a little longer before renewing the hunt.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/detective/AdventuresintheSecretServiceofthePostOfficeDepartment/Chap1.html (1601 words)

	Post Office Department. (from postal service) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		At that time the post office was a bureau of the Treasury Department.
		Dockwra's system consisted of several hundred receiving offices from which an hourly collection was made; the letters were taken to six central sorting offices.
		The transformation of the office workplace since the late 1800s can be attributed largely to the harnessing of electricity to operate devices and machinery.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-206827?tocId=206827 (833 words)

	Glossary of Terms for the Collector of United States Stamps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Scott numbers begin with J. Postage Stamp - a piece of printed security paper, usually gummed, produced by the BEP or other authorized printer under controlled and secure conditions, sold by the Post* Office, to be used by a mailer to evidence payment of postage.
		Postmaster - the postal official in charge of a post office in a given locality.
		The stamp was printed and shipped in secrecy, and released simultaneously at all post offices in the country upon Glenn's safe return to earth.
	glossary.usstamps.org /glossary/glossary-page11.html (3521 words)

	United States Postmaster General - dKosopedia
		From 1872 to 1971, the postmaster general was the head of an executive department concerned with the postal service (the Post Office Department).
		The Cabinet office of Postmaster General was often given to a new President's campaign manager or other key political supporter, and was considered something of a sinecure.
		In 1971, the Post Office Department was re-organized into the United States Postal Service, a government-owned corporation.
	dkosopedia.com /index.php?title=United_States_Postmaster_General&... (170 words)

	Zip Code Maps
		At destination post offices, a bar code sorter then read the bar code and sorted the letters by ZIP Code and address into appropriate holding areas to await delivery.
		A letter mailed at your local post office may be delivered to a sectional center if it isn’t destined for delivery within the same ZIP Code as you mailed it.
		According the the United States Post Office, the new sixth and seventh digits indicate a “delivery sector, such as several blocks, a group of streets, a group of post office boxes, several office buildings, or a small geographic area.
	www.zip-codes.com /zip_codes_history.asp (739 words)

	American Family Educator
		One may gain some idea of the enormous work undertaken by the United States Post-Office department when it is known that it directs the operation of 74,000 post-offices and over 200,000 employes.
		The cost of running the department for one year is nearly $110,000,000, and the receipts are about as much—for, in spite of the excellent organization of the department, the government is so liberal in the matter of second-class postage that expenses are not always met by receipts.
		By means of this delivery, farmers throughout many sections of the country receive their mail regularly, at stated intervals, without the necessity of calling for it at the postoffice, possibly many miles away.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/topic/preservation/educator/book3/pg277.htm (1946 words)

	Cover: Dakota Terr. post route map. / United States. Post Office Dept. ; Nicholson, W. L. / 1885
		Dissected into 24 sections and folded into brown cloth end sheets 25x28 with a label reading "Post Route Map Of The Territory Of Dakota." Map is protected in a new brown cloth folding case 26x29 with "Post Route Map Of Dakota 1885" stamped in gold on the spine.
		Full Title: (Covers to) Post route map of the Territory of Dakota with adjacent parts of Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, Iowa and Minnesota and portions of the Dominion of Canada showing post offices with the intermediate distances and mail routes in operation on the 1st of December 1885.
		Pub Title: (Covers to) Post route map of the Territory of Dakota with adjacent parts of Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, Iowa and Minnesota and portions of the Dominion of Canada showing post offices with the intermediate distances and mail routes in operation on the 1st of December 1885.
	www.davidrumsey.com /maps3087.html (524 words)

	Charles Ingram Stanton, Sr. Collection
		Although he served in the Air Service during World War I, he was never assigned overseas, but remained in the United States conducting research regarding radios and their effects in aircraft.
		On March 8, 1948 Stanton retired from the United States Government and took a teaching position at the Technological Institute of Aeronautics of Brazil as Professor of Air Navigation, and Chief of Airway Division.
		Charles Stanton began his career in public service when he was drafted into the United States Army during World War I. He learned to fly while in the Signal Corps, and tested early radio equipment during the war.
	www.nasm.si.edu /research/arch/findaids/stanton/stanton_print.html (1003 words)

	FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The legislative history, including testimony of child psychology specialists and psychiatrists before the House Committee on the Post Office and the Civil Service, reflected concern over the impact of the materials on the development of children.
		A declared objective of Congress was to protect minors and the privacy of homes from such material and to place the judgment of what constitutes an offensive invasion of those interests in the hands of the addressee.
		The section was subsequently amended by the House of Representatives to eliminate from the Post Office any censorship function.
	caselaw.lp.findlaw.com /scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=397&invol=728 (3387 words)

	Rowan v. United States Post Office Department
		Appellants initiated an action in the United States District Court for the Central District of California upon [p731] a complaint and petition for declaratory relief on the ground that 39 U.S.C. § 4009 (1964 ed., Supp.
		The legislative history, including testimony of child psychology specialists and psychiatrists before the House Committee on the Post Office and the Civil Service, reflected concern over the impact of the materials on the development of children.
		The function of the district court is similar to that of the Postmaster General.
	supct.law.cornell.edu /supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0397_0728_ZO.html (2970 words)

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