Showing posts with label postal services. Show all posts
Showing posts with label postal services. Show all posts

Monday, March 9, 2009

Collecting stamps of Ottoman and Turkish vintage


"...Postal services have existed for millennia as part of the need to provide communications for the rulers of countries or empires so large that it took days to cross. Systems were set up with horses kept at various stages somewhat like the famed Pony Express in the United States in modern times and men would ride as fast as possible over a set route..."    



This Article is From: www.hurriyet.com.tr

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Thursday, June 26, 2008

Verizon To Provide Postal Service Network


"... the Postal Service to meet its critical mission. "Whether employees are processing the mail or picking up the phone, Verizon Business is looking forward to building on that relationship in the decade ahead." The network will see the postal services ..."    



Source: www.comms-express.com

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Postal Delivery Two Times A Day?

Twice-A-Day Postal Service

"... restored normal postal service in April 1934. In a statement from Farley that restored postal employees to the duties they performed before March 2, 1934, he said that the reduction in postal services was not necessary, as he had previously thought. Postal revenues had increased from February to March and he said he believed that they would continue to do so. Twice-a-day residential mail delivery was eliminated in the U.S. permanently in April 1950 ..."    



Source: www.courant.com

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