News tagged with postal service
A new home for Santa Claus?
(PhysOrg.com) -- After the many years of commuting on Christmas Eve, jolly old St. Nicholas is reconsidering his home at the North Pole. Given his job description, extreme isolation has lost its appeal. In ...
Dec 16, 2011 |
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China post office offers letters from space
China's post office is hoping to boost business by allowing customers to send letters postmarked from space.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 02, 2011 |
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Can the United States postal service survive?
“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from swift completion of their appointed rounds,” declares the (unofficial) mail carriers’ creed.
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Sep 21, 2011 |
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Reading letters over the net before they arrive
Siemens’ Trust-Ebox system automates electronic dispatching of letters to such a degree that postal service companies will be able to provide their customers with digital letters at competitive costs. ...
Apr 05, 2011 |
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Postal services get exclusive '.post' address
Global postal services will soon have their own address on the Internet, after the web's authority for assigning domain names ICANN, said on Friday that it had approved the new address dot post (.post).
Dec 11, 2009 |
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5-day delivery no sure cure for postal woes, economist says
Scaling back mail delivery from six days a week to five may be the best bet to stem mounting U.S. Postal Service losses, but could still be a gamble, says a University of Illinois economist who has studied the agency's persistent ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Nov 23, 2009 |
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