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664: 1257:, have reduced the attractiveness of paper mail for many applications. These modern alternatives have some advantages: in addition to their speed, they may be more secure, e.g., because the general public cannot learn the address of the sender or recipient from the envelope, and occasionally traditional items of mail may fail to arrive, e.g. due to vandalism to mailboxes, unfriendly pets, and adverse weather conditions. Mail carriers due to perceived hazards or inconveniences, may refuse, officially or otherwise, to deliver mail to a particular address (for instance, if there is no clear path to the door or mailbox). On the other hand, traditional mail avoids the possibility of computer malfunctions and 1368: 828: 4631: 933: 1696:

and require affixing an adhesive stamp (though there have been some cases of a postal authority's issuing non-stamped postcards). Postcards are often printed to promote tourism, with pictures of resorts, tourist attractions or humorous messages on the front and allowing for a short message from the sender to be written on the back. The postage required for postcards is generally less than postage required for standard letters; however, certain technicalities such as their being oversized or having cut-outs, may result in payment of the first-class rate being required.

528: 1150: 513:, under the Ministry of Rites. During the Nguyen dynasty, official documents were transported by horse and other primitive means to stations built about 25-30 kilometers apart. In 1904, three wireless communication offices were established, and in early 1906 they were merged with the postal service to form the Post and Wireless Office. In 1945, after the August Revolution, the Post and Wireless Office was renamed the Post Office under the Ministry of Transportation. In 1955, the Post Office was upgraded to the Ministry of Post. 139: 1616:), third class (bulk advertisements), and fourth-class mail (books and media packages). First-Class Mail prices are based on both the shape and weight of the item being mailed. Pieces over 13 ounces can be sent as Priority Mail. As of 2011 42% of First-Class Mail arrived the next day, 27% in two days, and 31% in three. The USPS expected that changes to the service in 2012 would cause about 51% to arrive in two days and most of the rest in three. The Canada Post counterpart is Lettermail. 57: 4525: 809: 1049: 4537: 679: 1314:). There have been methods which have combined mail and some of these newer methods, such as temporary emails, that combine facsimile transmission with overnight delivery. These vehicles commonly use a mechanical or electro-mechanical standardised writing (typing), that on the one hand makes for more efficient communication, while on the other hand makes impossible characteristics and practices that traditionally were in conventional mail, such as 267: 1397:. In some cases, when demand greatly exceeds supply, their commercial value on this specific market may become enormously greater than face value, even after use. For some postal services the sale of stamps to collectors who will never use them is a significant source of revenue; for example, stamps from Tokelau, South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands, Tristan da Cunha, Niuafoʻou and many others. Stamp collecting is commonly known as 1728: 1680:) to be attached to the outside of envelopes and bulk mailings, afterwards extending the test for an unspecified period. The repositionable note may be fixed directly to the address side of First-Class Mail and Standard Mail letter-size mailpieces. These mailpieces must meet the standards in 7.2 through 7.6. The note is included as an integral part of the mailpiece for weight and postage rate and must be accounted for in pricing. 392: 1638: 4549: 1522: 882: 4157: 716:, taking advantage of a singular quality of this bird, which when taken far from its nest is able to find its way home due to a particularly developed sense of orientation. Messages were then tied around the legs of the pigeon, which was freed and could reach its original nest. By the 19th century, homing pigeons were used extensively for military communications. 1461: 984:

process of sending letter-like messages nearly instantaneous, and in many cases and situations correspondents use email where they previously would have used letters. The volume of paper mail sent through the U.S. Postal Service has declined by more than 15% since its peak at 213 billion pieces per annum in 2006.

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In Australia, Canada, and the U.S., the term "mail" is commonly used for the postal system and for the letters, postcards, and parcels it carries; in New Zealand, "post" is more common for the postal system and "mail" for the material delivered; in the UK, "post" prevails in both senses. However, the

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Documents should generally not be read by anyone other than the addressee; for example, in the United States of America it is a violation of federal law for anyone other than the addressee and the government to open mail. There are exceptions however: executives often assign secretaries or assistants

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Larger envelopes are also sent through the mail. These are often composed of a stronger material than standard envelopes and are often used by businesses to transport documents that may not be folded or damaged, such as legal documents and contracts. Due to their size, larger envelopes are sometimes

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for new subscriptions. Inside many magazines are postage-paid subscription cards that a reader can fill out and mail back to the publishing company to be billed for a subscription to the magazine. In this fashion, magazines also use postcards for other purposes, including reader surveys, contests or

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are small message cards that are sent by mail unenveloped; the distinction often, though not invariably and reliably, drawn between them is that "postal cards" are issued by the postal authority or entity with the "postal indicia" (or "stamp") preprinted on them, while postcards are privately issued

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were sometimes used as mail chariots in ancient India. Couriers were used militarily by kings and local rulers to deliver information through runners and other carriers. The postmaster, the head of the intelligence service, was responsible for ensuring the maintenance of the courier system. Couriers

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of 1837 provided that the Governor-General of India in Council had the exclusive right of conveying letters by post for hire within the territories of the East India Company. The mails were available to certain officials without charge, which became a controversial privilege as the years passed. On

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companies and other service providers. These letters often contain a self-addressed envelope that allows the receiver to remit payment back to the company easily. While still very common, many people now opt to use online bill payment services, which eliminate the need to receive bills through the

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Handwritten correspondence, while once a major means of communications between distant people, is now used less frequently due to the advent of more immediate forms of communication, such as the telephone or email. Traditional letters, however, are often considered to hark back to a "simpler time"

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from standard keyboards. However, the increased use of typewritten or computer-printed letters for personal communication and the advent of email have sparked renewed interest in calligraphy, as a letter has become more of a "special event". Long before email and computer-printed letters, however,

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Mail sent to and from inmates in jails or prisons within the United States is subject to opening and review by jail or prison staff to determine if the mail has any criminal action dictated or provides means for an escape. The only mail that is not able to be read is attorney-client mail, which is

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Before about the mid-nineteenth century, in regions where postal systems existed, the payment models varied, but most mail was sent unpaid requiring the recipient to pay the postage fee. In some regions a partial payment was made by the sender. Today, worldwide, the most common method of prepaying

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Modern mail is organized by national and privatized services, which are reciprocally connected by international regulations, organizations and international agreements. Paper letters and parcels can be sent to almost any country in the world relatively easily and cheaply. The Internet has made the

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described the system in this way: "It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that stand along the road, each horse and man at the interval of a day's journey; and these are stayed neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing

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of mail from the mail generator's computer directly to a Postal Service provider. The Postal Service provider is then able to use electronic means to have the mail piece sorted, routed and physically produced at a site closest to the delivery point. It is a type of mail growing in popularity with

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that it is no longer valid for pre-payment of postage. The exceptions are when the agent forgets or neglects to cancel the mailpiece, for stamps that are pre-cancelled and thus do not require cancellation and for, in most cases, metered mail. (The "personalized stamps" authorized by the USPS and

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to be printed out on a PC printer, obviating the necessity to license a dedicated franking machine and allowing companies with smaller mail programs to make use of the option; this was later expanded to test the use of personalized postage. The service provided by the U.S. Postal Service in 2003

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in most other countries) in order to facilitate the automation of operations. This also includes placing additional marks on the address portion of the letter or mailed object, called "bar coding". Bar coding of mail for delivery is usually expressed either by a series of vertical bars, usually

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The modern Japanese system was developed in the mid-19th century, closely copying European models. Japan was highly innovative in developing the world's largest and most successful postal savings system and later a postal life insurance system as well. Postmasters play a key role in linking the

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Packages are often sent through some postal services, usually requiring additional postage than an average letter or postcard. Many postal services have limitations as to what a package may or may not contain, usually placing limits or bans on perishable, hazardous or flammable materials. Some

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There have been cases over the millennia of governments opening and copying or photographing the contents of private mail. Subject to the laws in the relevant jurisdiction, correspondence may be openly or covertly opened, or the contents determined via some other method, by the police or other

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to and from soldiers is often subject to surveillance. The mail is censored to prevent leaking tactical secrets, such as troop movements or weather conditions. Depending on the country, civilian mail containing military secrets can also be monitored and censored.

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Registered mail allows the location and in particular the correct delivery of a letter to be tracked. It is usually considerably more expensive than regular mail, and is typically used for valuable items. Registered mail is constantly tracked through the system.

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The mail service may be allowed to open the mail if neither addressee nor sender can be located, in order to attempt to locate either. Mail service may also open the mail to inspect if it contains materials that are hazardous to transport or violate local laws.

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the task of handling their mail; and postcards do not require opening and can be read by anyone. For mail contained within an envelope, there are legal provisions in some jurisdictions allowing the recording of identities of sender and recipient.

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operated 1,785 posthouses throughout their lands. More efficient, however, was the system linking the international settlements, centered around Shanghai and the Treaty ports. It was the main communication system for China's international trade.

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In the United Kingdom, prior to 1840 letters were paid for by the recipient and the cost was determined by the distance from sender to recipient and the number of sheets of paper rather than by a countrywide flat rate with weight restrictions.

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Japanese political system to local politics. The postmasters are high prestige, and are often hereditary. To a large extent, the postal system generated the enormous funding necessary to rapidly industrialize Japan in the late 19th century.

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By the end of Kublai Khan's rule, there were more than 1400 postal stations in China alone, which in turn had at their disposal about 50,000 horses, 1,400 oxen, 6,700 mules, 400 carts, 6,000 boats, more than 200 dogs, and 1,150 sheep.

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Each station was maintained by up to twenty five families. Work for postal service counted as military service. The system was still operational in 18th century when 64 stations were required for a message to cross Mongolia from the

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but were also available for travelling officials, military men, and foreign dignitaries. These stations aided and facilitated the transport of foreign and domestic tribute specifically and the conduct of trade in general.

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The British Royal Mail's 1st Class, as it is styled, is simply a priority option over 2nd Class, at a slightly higher cost. Royal Mail aims (but does not guarantee) to deliver all 1st Class letters the day after posting.

855: 847:, into real estate, most of it continuing to exist today. The Phone Book of the World has its roots in the long history of the avant-garde telecommunications family Thurn & Taxis. The directory is the result of 1353:, postal services in industrialized nations have seen a major shift to item shipping. This has been seen as a boost to the system's usage in the wake of lower paper mail volume due to the accessibility of email. 3398: 339:(722 BCE). Mail may not have been the primary mission of this postal service, however. The role of the system as an intelligence gathering apparatus is well documented, and the service was (later) called 777:

In 1716, Correos y Telégrafos was established in Spain as public mail service, available to all citizens. Delivery postmen were first employed in 1756 and post boxes were installed firstly in 1762.

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some Post Office operations and individual businesses venturing into this market. In some countries, these services are available to print and deliver emails to those who are unable to receive

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in the U.S. includes postcards, letters, large envelopes (flats), and small packages, providing each piece weighs 13 ounces (370 g) or less. Delivery is given priority over second-class (

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are also sent through postal services. Many magazines are simply placed in the mail normally (but in the U.S., they are printed with a special bar code that acts as pre-paid postage – see

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to protect the loose contents of the magazine. During the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, newspapers and magazines were normally posted using

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Recorded mail is handled just like ordinary mail with the exception that it has to be signed for on receipt. This is useful for legal documents where proof of delivery is required.

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transmitting PTT culture to a student and helping with the opening of a small Telephone Boutique next to a historic Postal mansion his ancestors used to go to centuries earlier.

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store sending their weekly advertising circular to a general area. Bulk mail is also often sent to companies' existing subscriber bases, advertising new products or services.

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continue to use the Thurn & Taxis Post Horn in their company logo just like the global Phone Book of the World based in the old Postal mansion of King Louis XIV in Paris.

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The practice of communication by written documents carried by an intermediary from one person or place to another almost certainly dates back nearly to the invention of

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Internet-based system, allowing printing on ordinary adhesive labels or envelopes. Similar systems are being considered by postal administrations around the world.

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For 500 years the postal business based in Brussels and in Frankfurt was passed from one generation to another. Following the abolition of the Empire in 1806, the

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and are still used when someone wishes to be deliberate and thoughtful about their communication. An example would be a letter of sympathy to a bereaved person.

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as alternative ways of getting the sender to pay for the postage, at a time when prepayment was optional, which led to the invention of the postage stamp, the

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Long-Distance Trade and Economy before and during the Age of Empires." Revolutionizing a World: From Small States to Universalism in the Pre-Islamic Near East

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used couriers to send out decrees throughout the territory of the state (2400 BCE). The earliest surviving piece of mail is also Egyptian, dating to 255 BCE.

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Lane J. Harris, "Stumbling towards empire: the Shanghai Local Post Office, the transnational British community and informal empire in China, 1863–97".

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system continued as a private organization into the postage stamp era before being absorbed into the postal system of the new German Empire after 1871.

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is a method of creating postage-prepaid envelopes under licence using a special machine. They are used by companies with large mail programs, such as

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system managed routes between the cities of Jerusalem, Ramla, Tyre, Ascalon, Damascus, Aleppo, and Fustat with year-round, regular mail delivery.

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The stations were 25 to 65 km (16 to 40 mi) apart and had reliable attendants working for the mail service. Foreign observers, such as

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are sent to their owners through the mail. The card and number are usually mailed separately several days or weeks apart for security reasons.

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When the pre-paid envelope or package is accepted into the mail by an agent of the postal service, the agent usually indicates by means of a

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The worldwide postal system constituting the individual national postal systems of the world's self-governing states is coordinated by the

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Alvaro Escribano, Patricia González, and Julio Lasheras. "Evolution and Analysis of the Market Structure of Postal Services in Spain" in

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By the end of the 18th century, a postal system in India was in operation. Later this system underwent complete modernization when the

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The ordinary mail service was improved in the 20th century with the use of planes for a quicker delivery. The world's first scheduled

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mail. Paperwork for the confirmation of large financial transactions is often sent through the mail. Many tax documents are as well.

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This epoch is undoubtedly mainly dominated by mechanical writing, with a general use of no more of half a dozen standard typographic

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began to appear as a reference for a bag that contained letters: "bag full of letter" (1654). Over the next hundred years the word

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Letter-sized mail constitutes the bulk of the contents sent through most postal services. These are usually documents printed on

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Letters are often studied as an example of literature, and also in biography in the case of a famous person. A portion of the

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used mail service for espionage purposes thereby acquiring knowledge related to matters that took place at great distances.

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Goldberg, Jessica, "Trade and Institutions in the Medieval Mediterranean : The Geniza Merchants and Their Business World".

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The postal service was one of Korea's first attempts at modernization. The Joseon Post Office was established in 1884.

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Physical mail is still widely used in business and personal communications for such reasons as legal requirements for

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have emerged to give recipients a means of receiving traditional correspondence mail in a scanned electronic format.

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manufactured by Zazzle and other companies are in fact a form of meter label and thus do not need to be cancelled.)

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Many early post systems consisted of fixed courier routes. Here, a post house on a postal route in the 19th century

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Article 8(1): Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence.

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Numerous countries, including Sweden (1 January 1993), New Zealand (1998 and 2003), Germany (2005 and 2007),

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established a postal system in the Empire, appointing Franz von Taxis to run it. This system, originally the

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hazardous materials in limited quantities may be shipped with appropriate markings and packaging, like an

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to Christian congregations in various parts of the Roman Empire. See below for a list of famous letters.

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control, with the mail and packages often surveyed and their contents sometimes edited out (or even in).

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family, then known as Tassis, had operated postal services between Italian city-states from 1290 onward.

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concerns, the U.S. Postal Service subjects their packages to numerous security tests, often scanning or

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Receipt services were made available in order to grant the sender a confirmation of effective delivery.

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1867 July 1 the State of Prussia had to make a compensation payment of 3.000.000 Thalers reinvested by

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Kommunikation und Konfrontation: Diplomatie und Gesandtschaftswesen Kaiser Maximilians I. (1486–1519)

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Some countries have organized their mail services as public limited liability corporations without a

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British, American, Australian, and Canadian national postal services are called, respectively, the "

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to be applied to the envelope before mailing; a much less common method is to use a postage-prepaid

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The postal system was important in the development of modern transportation. Railways carried

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Postal authorities often have functions aside from transporting letters. In some countries, a

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Bills and invoices are often sent through the mail, like regular billing correspondence from

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François L. Ganshof, "The impact of Charlemagne on the institutions of the Frankish realm".

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opened new business opportunities as people often get items bought online through the mail.

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The people's post office: The history and politics of the Japanese postal system, 1871–2010

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to distinguish it from the quicker email. Various dates have been given for its first use.

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Chelsea Zi Wang, "More Haste, Less Speed: Sources of Friction in the Ming Postal System".

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tells a fictional story in the form of the correspondence between two or more characters.

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to their members with a message to be signed and sent to a politician (e.g. to promote

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Herodotus, Herodotus, trans. A.D. Godley, vol. 4, book 8, verse 98, pp. 96–97 (1924).

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their appointed course with all speed". The verse prominently features on New York's

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From Thurn & Taxis to Phone Book of the World - 7 centuries of Telecom History

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This antique "letter-box" style U.S. mailbox is both on display and in use at the

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became the transport of choice for inter-continental mail. Postmen started to use

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A Concise History of the French Post Office: From Its Origins to the Present Time

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adhesive stamps to signify the prepayment of postage began on 1 July 1852 in the

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authorities in some cases relating to a suspected criminal conspiracy, although

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authorised the first tests of a secure system of sending digital franks via the

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The first credible claim for the development of a real postal system comes from

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covered under the attorney-client confidentiality laws in the United States.

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post service took place in the United Kingdom between the London suburbs of

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district, as part of a comprehensive reform of the district's postal system.

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and prepayment. In his proposal, Hill also called for official pre-printed

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began to be applied strictly to the letters themselves and the sack as the

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has combined electronic and paper delivery. Electronic mechanisms include

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In Austria priority delivery mail is called Prio, in Switzerland A-Post.

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allows the franks to be printed out on special adhesive-backed labels.

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In 1802, the first Vietnamese postal service was established under the

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packages for materials that might be found in biological materials or

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this basis the Indian Post Office was established on October 1, 1837.

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Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse

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Silverstein, Adam (2006). "Post, or Barid". In Meri, Josef W. (ed.).

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introduced a test allowing "repositionable notes" (for example, 3M's

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opened up the postal services market to new entrants. In the case of

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In most countries a system of codes has been created (referred to as

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Some Chinese sources claim mail or postal systems dating back to the

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The privacy of correspondence is guaranteed by the constitutions of

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installed an empire-wide messenger and postal station system named

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extended to the whole territory of his empire the system used by

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sites) became a fierce competitor to physical mail systems, but

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for example documents served under The Law of Property Act 1925

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Many religious orders had a private mail service. Notably, the

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for unsticking of envelopes during correspondence surveillance

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Aiyangar, Sakkottai Krishnaswami; S. Krishnaswami A. (2004).

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Competitive Transformation of the Postal and Delivery Sector

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to refer to letters being sent abroad (i.e. on a ship) and

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is the Irish term for a bag. In the 17th century, the word

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Digital Communication: Communication, Multimedia, Security

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to Egypt in 1914 showing numbered registration label

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to refer to letters for domestic delivery. The word

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