Post-office Sentence Examples

All my mail goes to a post office box.

Facing the cathedral is the Della Rovere palace erected by Cardinal Giulio della Rovere (Julius II.) from the plans of Giuliano da Sangallo as a kind of university, and now occupied by the prefecture, the post-office and law-courts.

The Chilean post-office is administered by a director-general at Santiago, and has a high degree of efficiency and liberality, compared with those of other South American states.

He was a supporter of the League of Nations; he indorsed woman suffrage and was a strong advocate of civil-service reform for the post-office and consular appointments.

The Franciscan establishment gives its name to the Graabradretor y or Grey Friars' market; and St Clara's Monastery, the largest of all, which was founded by Queen Christina, is still commemorated by the Klareboder or Clara buildings, near the present post-office.

The organization of the imperial post-office was carried out with great success by Herr von Stephan (q.v.), who remained at the head of this department from its creation till his death in 1897.

The commercial section of the city occupies a long, narrow beach between the water-line and bluffs, and contains the arsenal, exchange, custom-house, post-office, railway station, market and principal business houses.

By 1913, the post office was closed and the town had dwindled to two dozen remaining souls, and before long, it was left to indigenous wildlife and the spirits of a boisterous past.

We're checking with the Post Office for a change of address.

The establishment of a post office in the town helped the town attract new businesses.

No post office box addresses are acceptable.

The principal square is the Plaza de Bolivar, the conventional centre of the city, in which stands a bronze equestrian statue of Bolivar, and on which face the cathedral, archbishop's residence, Casa Amarilla, national library, general post office and other public offices.

In England this power was frequently employed during the 18th century and was confirmed by the Post Office Act of 1837; its most notorious use being, perhaps, the opening of Mazzini's letters in 1844.

Among other prominent buildings are the court house, the post office and the city hall.

A large part of the modern town lies south of the square de la Republique; in this quarter are the law courts, hotel de ville, post office and other public buildings.

With regard to the statement that the companies had installed competitive systems and had expended capital needlessly, it was found by the Post Office authorities that in 1865 less than 2000 m.

The excess expenditure caused the Post Office during two or three years to make temporary application of Savings Banks' balances to telegraph expenditure, an expedient which was disapproved of by both the Treasury and the House of Commons.

At that date the superintending and managing staffs of the Post Office comprised 590 persons, the staff of the old companies with only about one-third of the traffic having been 534 persons.

A further cause has been competition offered by the telephone service, but against this the Post Office has received royalties from telephone companies and revenue from trunk telephone lines.

When one of two subscribers connected together by this arrangement talks, the Exchange From the Post Office Electrical Engineers' Journal.

At the Post Office a record operator replies and takes particulars of the connexion, and these are entered upon a ticket.

Both the Bell and the Edison Companies opened negotiations with the Post Office for the sale of their patents to the government, but without success.

The licences were for 31 years, expiring in 1922, without any provision for purchase or compensation, and were subject to the payment of a minimum royalty to the Post Office of 10 per cent.

The Post Office at the same time established several telephone exchanges in provincial towns so as to enable the PostmasterGeneral " to negotiate with the telephone companies in a satisfactory manner for licences."

The Postmaster-General (Mr Fawcett) declared that he would issue no more licences unless the licensees agreed to sell telephones to the Post Office.

The Post Office proposed to engage in active competition with the telephone companies, but the Treasury at that time opposed this policy on the ground that the state should at most be ready to supplement and not to supersede private enterprise.

The licences within restricted areas having proved unsuitable for the growing business, public opinion appealed to the Post Office to issue new licences applicable to the whole country.

The Post Office reserved the right to compete either directly or by granting other licences, and it was under no obligation to grant wayleaves.

The National Telephone Company again applied to parliament for powers to lay wires underground; public discontent with inadequate telephone services was expressed, and at the same time the competition of the telephone with the Post Office telegraph became more manifest.

The trunk wires were transferred to the Post Office in pursuance of the policy of 1892, but for all practical purposes the local authorities had vetoed the permission of the government to the company to lay wires underground.

While considering that a really efficient Post Office service would afford the best means for securing such competition, it recommended that general, immediate and effective competition should at once be undertaken either by the Post Office or by local authorities.

In short, all-round competition was authorized, and the Post Office decided to establish a telephone system in London in competition with the company.

The Telegraph Act 1899, while providing for intercommunication between the telephone systems of the local authorities and the company, did not give the Post Office the right to demand intercommunication between its exchanges and those of the company.

The Post Office co-operated with the London County Council to put difficulties in the way of the company which had placed wires underground in London with the consent of the local road authorities.

The government policy of 1899 was abandoned in London, the Post Office making an agreement with the company in regard to the London business.

The company consented to free intercommunication between its subscribers and those of the Post Office, and undertook to charge rates identical with those charged by the Post Office.

The Tunbridge Wells and Swansea municipal undertakings were subsequently sold to the National Telephone Company, and the Glasgow and Brighton undertakings to the Post Office.

The effect of the unsettled policy of the Post Office until 1905 and of the difficulties created by the local authorities was that the National Telephone Company was never able to do its best to develop the enterprise on the most efficient lines.

Telephone subscribers may also obtain the services of an express messenger by telephoning to the nearest post office connected with the exchange.

The gross income for the year 1907 amounted to £2,702,228, of which £257,920 was paid to the Post Office in respect of royalties.

Free intercommunication was established by the agreement between the subscribers of the company and those of the Post Office, and a scale of charges was adopted or arranged to be agreed as binding on both the Post Office and the company.

It had paid the Post Office in royalties already £1,848,000, and the Post Office under the agreement would step into the business in 1911 by merely paying for the plant employed.

The total number of subscribers to the Post Office provincial exchanges on the 31st of March 1907 (excluding those in Glasgow and Brighton) was 10,010, and the number of telephones rented was 12,006.

The sum received by the Post Office as rental in respect of private wires was £183,000.

The years' working of the whole telephone system of the Post Office showed a balance of £451,787 after payment of the working expenses, while the estimated amount required to provide for depreciation of plant and interest at 3 per cent.

There were 425 post office call-offices in the London area.

In addition to an initial endowment by the state, part of the annual income of the fund is furnished in various forms by the state (principally by making over a proportion of the profits of the Post Office Savings Bank), and part by the premiums of the workmen.

Owing to the comnaratively small amount of letters, it is found possible to have a travelling post office on all principal trains (while almost every train has a travelling sorter, for whom a compartment is reserved) without a late fee being exacted in either case.

In the principal towns letters may be posted in special boxes at the head office just before the departure of any given mail train, and are conveyed direct to the travelling post office.

In November of this year he obtained a renewal of his pension of J350o a year from the post office which he was holding in 1 The title was taken, not from Leeds in Yorkshire, but from Leeds in Kent, 41 m.

Other noteworthy buildings are the Federal building (containing post-office, custom-house and Federal court-rooms; erected at a cost of $3,000,000); Tomlinson Hall, capable of seating 3000 persons, given to the city by Daniel Tomlinson; the Propylaeum, a club-house for women; the Commercial club; Das Deutsche Haus, belonging to a German social club; the Maennerchor club-house; the Union railway station; the traction terminal building; the city hall, and the public library.

In these statistics, the third item, " other persons," includes post office and customs officials and other persons connected with the railway service, as well as railway officers and servants off duty.

Dunmore became a station of the Scranton post office in 1902.

The new town hall and post-office are near the uppermost bridge.

It contains the barracks and the commissariat stores, the Protestant church, orphanage, Masonic lodge, post-office and numerous private dwellings.

At the edge of the Common, which is now well within the city, the British troops in 1775 took their boats on the eve of the battle of Lexington; and the post-office, now in the very heart of the business section of the city, stands on the original shore-line.

Revenue is obtained from a hut tax of £1 per hut; the sale of licences to trade; customs and post office receipts.

The observatory, which was connected by wire with the post office at Fort William, was provisioned by the Scottish Meteorological Society, to whom it belonged.

The only exception made to this rule was in the case of revenues showing a yearly increase, such as Post Office revenue, tobacco, salt, for which were taken the figures of 1323 (1907) increased by a certain average."

Besides the gunboat in the river, he has a guard of sepoys, and there is an Indian post-office in the residency.

The Mall connecting the courthouse and city hall with the post-office and library is 600 ft.

Its noteworthy public buildings are the custom-house and its storehouses which occupy the old quadrangular fortress built by the Spanish government between 1770 and 1775, and cover 15 acres, the prefecture, the military and naval offices and barracks, the post-office, three Catholic churches, a hospital, market, three clubs and some modern commercial houses.

Facing the botanical gardens a new central post-office, in the Renaissance style, was built in 1887.

The department of industry, communications and public works takes the next highest proportion, but about half its expenditures are met by special taxes, as in the case of port works and railway inspection, and by the revenues of the state railways, telegraph lines and post office.

The post office is a handsome sandstone building in Renaissance style; it is colonnaded on two sides with polished granite columns and surmounted by a clock tower, containing a peal of bells.

The principal buildings are the post-office, courthouse, city hall, an auditorium with a seating capacity of 5000, a Masonic building, an Oddfellows' temple, a Y.M.C.A.

On the north side of the square are the law courts, on the west side the Post Office.

The General Post Office lies in the centre of the City on either side of the street called St Martin's le Grand.

Here are the central offices of the letter, newspaper and telegraph departments, with the office of the Postmaster General; but the headquarters of the parcels department are at Mount Pleasant, Clerkenwell; those of the Post Office Savings Bank at Blythe Road, West Kensington, and those of the Money Order department in Queen Victoria Street.

The National Telephone Company, working under licence expiring on the 31st of December 1911, had until 1901 practically a monopoly of telephonic communication within London, though the Post Office owned all the trunk lines connecting the various telephone areas of the company.

The Post Office thereupon instituted a separate system of exchanges and lines, intercommunication between the two systems being arranged.

The majority of the banks are members of the Clearing House, Post Office Court, where a daily exchange of drafts representing millions of pounds sterling is effected.

There are five caravanserais, three mosques and a post office.

There is an efficient post office service, with about 400 post offices.

It is now annexed to the principal post office (built 1892-1894), which lies close to it on the Zeil.

By the treaty under which Baden had become an integral part of the German empire, he had reserved only the exclusive right to tax beer and spirits; the army, the post-office, railways and the conduct of foreign relations were placed under the effective control of Prussia.

See also the Post Office Directory, Transvaal (Johannesburg, annually), which contains specially prepared maps, and the annual reports of the Johannesburg chamber of commerce.

It also leaked out during the investigation that he had received in 1868, as a campaign contribution, a gift of $4000 from a contractor who had supplied the government with envelopes while Colfax was chairman of the post office committee of the House.

Among the principal buildings are the city hall, the court-house, the post-office, the Binghamton city hospital, Stone opera-house, the Carnegie library (1904), the central high school, and a state armoury.

In most countries of the continent of Europe the post office acts as such an agent, as in Germany (where the system is known as Post-Nachnahme) and in France (contre remboursement).

At various times, notably in 1904, it has been proposed that the General Post Office of the United Kingdom should adopt the system.

He visited nearly every post office in the colonies and increased the mail service between New York and Philadelphia from once to three times a week in summer, and from twice a month to once a week in winter.

The petition was refused and was condemned as scandalous, and Franklin, who took upon himself the responsibility for the publication of the letters, in the hearing before the privy council at the Cockpit on the 29th of January 1 774 was insulted and was called a thief by Alexander Wedderburn (the solicitor-general, who appeared for Hutchinson and Oliver), and was removed from his position as head of the post office in the American colonies.

The market square contains an excellent group of modern buildings, including the town hall, public library, post office and others.

Here are situated Queen's House, the governor's residence; the secretariat or government offices, and other government buildings, such as the fine general post office and the customs house.

While he was criticized by the friends of Civil Service Reform for not going far enough during his presidency to protect the encroachments of those who desire to have the offices distributed as political rewards or for partisan ends, such specific acts as his transference to the classified service of all fourth-class postmasters east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio rivers, his insistence upon a thorough investigation of the scandals in the Post Office department, and his order forbidding federal employes to use their offices for political purposes in the campaign of 1908 are typical of his vigorous support of the merit system.

A handsome Gothic Lutheran church was erected in 1892-1897, a post office (Renaissance) in 1881, and new administrative offices and law courts in 1876-1880.

The Post Office Savings Bank was also made to serve the financial needs of the State.

The Senne was bricked in, and the fine boulevards du Nord, Anspach, Hainaut and Midi took the place of slums. The Bourse and the post-office are two fine modern buildings in this quarter of the city.

A post-office was established here in November 1897.

It is the market for the produce of the surrounding districts, has six caravanserais and a post office.

His more important books, of which English translations have been published, are the poems Gitanjali (Song Offerings) (1913), The Crescent Moon (1913), The Gardener (1913), Songs of Kabir (1915), Fruit Gathering (1916), Stray Birds (1917), The Lover's Gift and the Crossing (1918); the plays Chitra (1914), The King of the Dark Chamber (1914), The Post Office (1914),.

The navy department has charge of the dockyards and vessels of war; and the post office department directs the postal system, including the railway mail service.

In 1824 a post office was established, and as there was another office of that same name in the state, the name was again changed, the present name being adopted.

The federal revenue is derived mainly from customs and excise duties, with subsidiary amounts from mining licences, timber dues, post-office, &c. Both the revenue and the expenditure have in recent years increased greatly, the revenue rising from $46,743,103 in 1899 to $71,186,073 in 1905 and the expenditure keeping pace with it.

Nevertheless the system of competitive examinations for appointments was introduced in some of the great executive departments in Washington, and in the custom-house and the post-office in New York.

Moreover, he ordered that "no officer should be required or permitted to take part in the management of political organizations, caucuses, conventions or election campaigns," and that "no assessment for political purposes on officers or subordinates should be allowed"; and he removed from their offices the heads of the post-office in St Louis and of the customhouse in New York - influential party managers - on the ground that they had misused their official positions for partisan ends.

The settlement was first called Westbourne and later was named Zanesville; a post office was established in 1802.

The house, La Grotte, which Gibbon inhabited 1783-1793, and on the terrace of which he completed (1787) his famous history, was demolished in 1896 to make room for the new post office that stands on the Place St Francois.

Among the principal buildings are the county court house, city hall, commercial building, United States naval hospital, post office building, high school and the Portsmouth orphan asylum, King's Daughters' hospital and the old Trinity Church (1762).

In the centre of the town is the Beursplein, or Exchange Square, with the large general post office (1875), the "Amicitia" club, and the exchange itself (1723).

All belong to the government post office, which forms an administrative system independent of the imperial German post office.

The heads of the departments to whom the especial executive functions are entrusted are eight in number - ministers respectively of the interior, of " water-staat," trade and industry (that is, of public works, including railways, post-office, &c.), of justice, of finance, of war, of marine, of the colonies and of foreign affairs.

The most important and imposing among the more modern architectural additions to the city are the handsome Gothic exchange, completed in 1867, the municipal theatre, the municipal library, the post office (1878), the law courts (1891-1895), the wool exchange, the German bank, the municipal museum for natural science, ethnology and commerce, and the fine railway station (1888).

The most prominent public buildings are the post office and the city hall; in front of the latter is a Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument.

Among the more prominent secular buildings are the Giirzenich, a former meeting-place of the diets of the Holy Roman Empire, built between 1441 and 1447, of which the ground floor was in 1875 converted into a stock exchange, and the upper hall, capable of accommodating 3000 persons, is largely utilized for public festivities, particularly during the time of the Carnival; the Rathaus, dating from the 13th century, with beautiful Gobelin tapestries; the Tempelhaus, the ancestral seat of the patrician family of the Overstolzens, a beautiful building dating from the 13th century, and now the chamber of commerce; the Wallraf-Richartz Museum, in which is a collection of paintings by old Italian and Dutch masters, together with some works by modern artists; the Zeughaus, or arsenal, built on Roman foundations; the Supreme Court for the Rhine provinces; the post-office (1893); the Imperial Bank (Reichsbank); and the municipal library and archives.

Among the principal buildings are the state capitol, the state library, the city hall, the county court-house, the post-office, the Fowler public library, the state hospital, the state prison, the Centennial home for the aged, the Margaret Pillsbury memorial hospital, the Rolfe and Rumford asylum for orphan girls, founded by the countess Rumford, and several fine churches, including the Christian Science church built by Mrs Eddy.

The imperial post office (Reichspostamt), under a secretary of state, controls the post and telegraph administration of the empire (with the exception of Bavaria and Wurttemberg), as also those in the colonies and dependencies.

Most readers receive their newspapers through the post office or at their clubs, which may help to explain the smaller number of copies sold.

Among the public buildings are the state capitol, the post office building, the county court house, the city hall, the second regiment armoury, public library (containing about 42,000 volumes in 1909), and the building (1910) given by Henry C. Kelsey to the city for the school of industrial arts (founded in 1898).

In the vicinity are the Governor's Mansion, the Supreme Court Building, the State Library, the building of the State Department of Agriculture, housing the State Museum (of geology, mineralogy, agriculture and horticulture, botany, zoology, ethnology, &c.), and the Post Office.

By order of the Government the former were diverted to the Bureau by the Post Office and cable companies.

In the postal censorship, exclusive of clerical and post-office employees, a staff of 5,500 was employed comprising 3,451 women and persons with a knowledge of almost every foreign language.

On the latter date the telegraph lines were placed in charge of the War Department but transferred later to the Post Office Department when the Government took over the telegraph and express companies.

The Post Office Department was designated by executive order as responsible for the enforcement of these measures.

The principal public buildings are the city hall, the public library, the post-office and the city hospital.

Three years before this date a local penny post had been provided in Edinburgh by private enterprise, carried on by a staff of seven persons, and after the success of this effort had been demonstrated the concern was taken over by the post office.

The telephones are mainly conducted by the post office and the National Telephone Company, but the corporation of Glasgow has a municipal service.

There are government departments for the administration of revenue, customs, post-office, military affairs, &c. The general law administered in all the courts of Afghanistan is that of Islam and of the customs of the country, with developments introduced by the Amir Abdur Rahman.

The principal heads of revenue are land, opium, salt, stamps, excise, customs, assessed taxes, forests, registration and tributes from native states; and the chief heads of expenditure are charges of collection, interest, post-office, telegraph and mint, civil departments, famine relief and insurance, railways, irrigation, other public works and army.

The post-office of India is under the control of a director-general, in subordination to the department of commerce and industry; and this Post officer has under him a postmaster-general or deputy post master-general in each province.

In connexion with the post-office there are inland money order and savings-bank businesses; and in addition the value-payable system, by which the post-office undertakes to recover from the addressee the value of an article sent by post and to remit the amount to the sender, has found great popularity.

The public buildings include the legislative council chambers and the legislative assembly buildings, government house, the government offices, college, post office and market buildings.

Accordingly, the production of goods has been largely curtailed for the open market and prison labour is restricted nowadays to supplying articles required for current use by public departments - such as the navy, army, post office and, of course, all prison establishments.

Among the secular buildings are the fine Schloss, the Bibliothek, the town hall and the post office.

Of modern structures, the government offices, the house of the provincial diet, the post office and the palace of the commander of the 17th army corps, which has its headquarters in Danzig, are the most noteworthy.

Among the principal buildings are the county court house, the free public library, the Tama building, the GermanAmerican savings bank building and the post office.

Among the public buildings on or near the park are the federal building, housing the post office and the United States courts, the city hall, the Dane county court-house, the public library, the Fuller opera-house, the county gaol, and the high school.

The post office savings bank was opened in 1884.

The principal sources of income in the ordinary revenue are railways, forests, telegraphs and rent from Crown lands; and those in the revenue voted (bevillningar), which is about seven-eighths of the whole, customs, the taxes on spirits and beetsugar, and income from the post office.

The other public buildings of the town include the gildhall and law courts, in the Italian style with Corinthian pillars and pilasters, built in 1847 and internally remodelled in 1901; a prison (1829); a fine market hall (1830), rebuilt in 1897; a cattle market and abattoirs (1869); the Albert Hall for concerts and public meetings (1864); the; Royal Metal Exchange (1897); harbour trust offices (1904); a central post office (1901) and two theatres.

Th.e administration of the post office is under the commonwealth government Railways.-The railways are almost entirely in the hands of the state, for out of 3471 m.

The post office formerly served as town hall.

A large government building of polished granite contains the post office and the customs offices.

They include the Palacio Nacional or government buildings, Corinthian in style, the national library and museum, an ornate Renaissance structure, the barracks and the general post office.

These are the post office charges, and the charges for telegraph service, including telephones.

According to old usage, the post office was made a state monopoly for the express purpose of levying taxation by means of it.

The excuse, as a rule, may hold good, that the postal charge is only a reasonable one for service rendered, so that the net income of the post office really resembles the profit of a business, but the element of taxation appears undoubtedly to enter.

If the government derived a large income from post office and telegraph service in excess of the amount expended, the whole income would be generally, and not improperly, described as taxation; but consideration, of course, must be given to the difference made by the working of the service generally for the public advantage rather than for purposes of revenue.

The proceeding appears to be quite incorrect, whatever excuse there may be for treating revenue like that of the post office as non-tax revenue.

The local authorities derive a large income from private property, and from monopolies such as water, gas, electric light, telephones and tramway service, which they carry on, and on which the same observations may be made as on the post office and telegraph services; but in addition there is a large amount of taxation.

The whole of the British revenue from post office and telegraph service, and the whole of the stamp revenue, are derived from charges whose exact incidence cannot be traced.

The post-office, completed in 1890, is built of Maine granite.

In it are several of the chief public buildings, notably the technical high school, the arsenal and the post office.

In one form of Wheatstone's Bridge, known as the series pattern plug-resistance bridge, or Post Office pattern, the two ratio arms, P and Q, each consist of a series of coils of wire, viz.

The most prominent public buildings are the Houses of Parliament, to which an excellent library is attached; the town hall, a beautiful building of brown and white Tasmanian freestone in Italian style; the museum and national art gallery, and the general post office (1904) with its lofty clock-tower.

About one-third of the revenue is derived from railways, forests and mines; about £1,400,000 from direct taxation; and the remainder from indirect taxes, the post-office and sundry items. In 1909 the public debt amounted to £29,285,335, of which more than £27,000,000 was incurred for railway construction.

The provincial and university library, with over 800,000 volumes, and the hall of the provincial Diet (Landesausschuss), built in 1888-1892, both in the Italian Renaissance style, occupy the opposite side of the Kaiserplatz, and behind the latter is the large new post office.

Among the town's principal secular buildings are the new Gothic town-hall, the post office and the railway station.

The deposits in the Post Office Savings Banks rose from £1,481,000 in 1880 to £ 10, 459, 000 in 1906, and the deposits in Trustee Savings Banks from £2,100,165 in 1880 to £2,488,740 in 1905.

Langhans, the post office and the museum of sculpture and painting, the latter faced by the Mende fountain.

The principal public buildings are the post office and custom house.

The post-office, which was established in 1845, was named Remington, in honour of Eliphalet Remington; but later the present name was adopted.

In 1823 Bellevue became an Indian agency, and in 1849 the first United States post-office in Nebraska.

We are grateful for sponsorship from Baillie Gifford and the post office for our two evening events on Thursday and Friday.

First, I used my twenty-five pounds Post Office savings to buy a wild colt straight from Dartmoor.

The Post Office employed a contractor to repair their premises.

The struggle reflects the workers ' discontent at the effects of the reorganization of the Post Office.

The post office also has a 24 hour automated cash dispenser.

These include The Old Dame School, one of two cottages - with The Old Post Office - which show a little architectural finesse.

As its name implies it was a green, surrounded by shops, including a fishmongers, bakers and post office.

Postal Services Post Office is below the mezzanine floor next to the toilets.

Syd had the gallows erected in the cellar of the post office.

The property is within walking distance of the village grocery and Post office.

While customers operate their accounts by phone or internet it's access at every post office that has recently attracted the most interest.

Unaddressed junk mail The Post Office now deliver a lot of this with the post.

At least here in Wymsey we can get French kippers at the Post Office and General Store!

He even takes the mickey out of own spending habits in a new advert for the Post Office.

Can be compared with a post office 's pigeon holes.

Then there was the General Post Office and next to the Grand were some shops, a ladies outfitters and a sweet shop.

Turn right when you enter the piazza and along the front of the post office.

A village Lodge, the Master was one James Beattie, a rural postman attached to the Forfar Post Office.

I nipped into the post office this morning and asked the postmistress about sending money via MoneyGram to Nigeria.

Molines has a single post office and a single bank.

Your local post office should be able to give you a leaflet â âA guide to your card accountâ â with an application form.

Facing the pub is a private house that was once the village Methodist chapel and nearby the village post office.

You can protect your tax disk with a tamper proof disk holder, available from the Post Office.

In September 2004 they joined ranks with the Post Office.

If only the highly salaried managers at Post Office Ltd could show one tenth of his commitment to providing a decent service.

The Old Post Office is also home to a unique collection of historic needlework samplers dating from the mid-17 th century.

The Parish does not have a shop, post office or pubs and there is no main sewerage in the Parish.

You will still need to discuss the payment arrangements with your bank, building society or post office.

Tax credits are normally paid into a bank or building society account, or a Post Office card account.

The helper will also sign a declaration, and provide evidence of both your identities at your post office or bank/building society.

Let's hope somebody tells the British Post Office.

The name reflected their mail carrying business for the Post Office back in horse-drawn stagecoach days!

The old coffee tavern next to the Post Office building came down along with the main station building including its Victorian arches.

A hundred years later, Gladstone wanted government annuities sold at every post office to encourage thrift.

For months there has been serious industrial unrest in the Post Office.

The joint venture with the Bank of Ireland Group will see Post Office branded products being sold over the counter.

Mail chiefs argue the existing post office network is no longer financially viable.

Mr Scudamore, who was regarded as the author of the bill for the acquisition of the telegraph systems, reported that the charges made by the telegraph companies were too high and tended to check the growth of telegraphy; that there were frequent delays of messages; that many important districts were unprovided with facilities; that in many places the telegraph office was inconveniently remote from the centre of business and was open for too small a portion of the day;' that little or no improvement could be expected so long as the working of the telegraphs was conducted by commercial companies striving chiefly to earn a dividend and engaged in wasteful competition with each other; that the growth of telegraphy had been greatly stimulated in Belgium and Switzerland by the annexation of the telegraphs to the Post Offices of those countries and the consequent adoption of a low scale of charges; that in Great Britain like results would follow the adoption of like means, and that the association of the telegraphs with the Post Office would produce great advantage to the public and ultimately a large revenue to the state.

The telegraphs were transferred to the Post Office on the 5th of February 1870.

Courtney (afterwards Lord Courtney), when Secretary of the Treasury, had stated that " it would be highly inexpedient to encourage upon light grounds competition against a company in the position of the Eastern Telegraph Company which has embarked much capital in existing lines "; and that the permanent officials representing the Post Office before the Pacific Cable committee had stated " that there was no precedent for the Imperial Government alone or in association with the Colonies managing or seeking business for a line of this kind."

The committee considered that the Post Office was not prevented either by legal agreement or by good faith from limiting or ending the monopoly of the company, and that competition appeared to be both expedient and necessary in order to extend and popularize the service and to avoid the danger that a purchase of the company's undertaking at an inflated price might be forced upon the government.

Telephone subscribers may telephone ordinary messages to any post office which may be reached through the local exchange system, or by means of the trunk wires, in order that the messages may be written down and forwarded as telegrams or express letters or ordinary letters.

I carried the little story to the post-office myself, feeling as if I were walking on air.

When she had finished the letter she carried it to her mother and spelled, "Frank letter," and gave it to her brother to take to the post-office.

She had been with me to take letters to the post-office.

For my part, I could easily do without the post-office.

I observed that the vitals of the village were the grocery, the bar-room, the post-office, and the bank; and, as a necessary part of the machinery, they kept a bell, a big gun, and a fire-engine, at convenient places; and the houses were so arranged as to make the most of mankind, in lanes and fronting one another, so that every traveller had to run the gauntlet, and every man, woman, and child might get a lick at him.

In the offices and shops and at the post office everyone was talking about the army and about the enemy who was already attacking the town, everybody was asking what should be done, and all were trying to calm one another.

Royal Mail ratchets up the tension in the post office Royal Mail 's cost-cutting is creating the conditions for a possible national dispute.

They called into a Post Office to leave some items from the ruck sack to remove some weight.

A view showing the large silk cotton tree which stands behind the Post Office in the grassy square east of Parliament Street, Nassau.

Let 's hope somebody tells the British Post Office.

The name reflected their mail carrying business for the Post Office back in horse-drawn stagecoach days !

The British Post Office abolished its telegram service several years ago.

June German Post Office 's local videophone service in Hamburg is being used for about 20 calls a day.

It will help the post office deliver the package in the event that the address on the outside becomes unreadable.

Nor will they deliver to post office boxes.

In the past, the only way to buy postage stamps in the U.S. was a trip to the post office.

If you can't make it to the post office for stamps you do have a few other options.

Websites on the internet are exploding with custom stamp stores, print your own stamp services, even all-in-one mail stations that give you most of the postage features you'll find at the post office.

Shipping is generally $1.00 and it will take several business days to receive your order, but it's far more convenient than waiting in line at the post office.

Additionally, if you need to ship items to friends and family who live far way, you can take advantage of the holiday shipping deals that are available at many of e-commerce sites to avoid the stress of standing in line at the post office.

Since the money is automatically deducted from your account, you don't have to spend time writing a check or making an extra trip to the post office.

When you mail out bills that have account numbers on them, you may be better off dropping it off at the post office or putting it in a postal drop box rather than letting it sit outside your home unattended.

Have a physical mailing address instead of a post office box.

The phone number is not in service and it is difficult to find a street address for the association using a post office box number.

If your post office participates in the "Fast Return" system, then the next item in your queue is automatically shipped to you once your return has been scanned by the post office.

If your post office does not participate in the "Fast Return" system, then the next item in your queue is automatically shipped to you when GameFly receives the returned game.

Elsewhere, if your nearest post office does not use the "Fast Return" system, it can be as many as seven.

If shipping is fast, or if your local post office uses the "Fast Return" system, GameFly is a great deal for your gaming desires.

No other private publishers or printers were allowed to produce postcards except for The U.S. Post Office.

You may also want to check the local yellow pages and page attention to public postings at the post office and local libraries.

Plan ahead if you need to use the post office to mail your gifts.

No standing in the store trying to pick out the perfect card, no having to buy stamps and no going to the post office.

Getting over the point in your relationship where going to the post office with your significant other brings a gleaming smile to your face?

Be wary of poorly produced invitations or web pages or companies with only post office box addresses.

A learning game can occur, for example, when a child is brought to the grocery store or post office.

Attorney, Fred, finds that the post office has been delivering mail addressed to Santa Claus to Kris.

Stranahan also used the house as Fort Lauderdale's first post office as well as a trading post.

Since you won't need to wait for the post office to deliver your materials, you'll get your check quicker.

If you're not a stranger to the post office and never shy away from a return, check online for some of the newest styles of the season.

The cost of shipping is a bit lower than other nationwide shipping companies such as UPS or FedEx, and the level of service is quite high, no matter how much post office bashing you may hear.

Don't have time to stand in line at the post office while juggling heavy packages?

Type the address left justified, using the U.S. Post Office format.

If you don't have a passport, you can pick up the application forms at your local post office.

That's probably because shipping usually is done via the U.S. Post Office rather than FedEx or UPS, which would allow for easier tracking of packages.

The Post Office - New to the insurance market, The Post Office offers first class value for your money.

There is no need to wait in long lines at the post office to send and insure your packages; you can create USPS shipping label with insurance online from your own computer.

You cannot create a label online and then pick it up at the local post office or have the mail carrier leave it in your mailbox for you.

The money charged for insurance via the USPS website is the same that customers pay for package insurance when walking into a post office.

But as fast as the shipping might be, the nearer you get to Christmas, the busier the post office becomes.

In other, more extreme situations, you can get a post office box or other confidential shipping method for purchases.

Even the U.S. Post Office has gotten in on the act, issuing Woodstock commemoration stamps (oh, the irony).

The post office might know something.

She left the post office feeling better about Russell Cade than she did about herself.

So did her sister who was visiting, and the old guy who owns the gift store on the block with the Post Office.

Cynthia was seated with two other women at a card table in front of the Post Office when Dean arrived.

First off, I have to go to the Post Office.

Dean usually devoted the solitary time behind the wheel to sorting out details of a case, putting little facts in their slots like letters in a country post office.

Dean eased into the latest news by first telling of Winston's unsuccessful inquiry about a Post Office forwarding address before mentioning his conversation with Mrs. Glass.

When I checked with the Sentinel, they told me the subscription remained open but there weren't any papers lying around unclaimed, yet you said there wasn't any forwarding notice filed with the Post Office.

Since July 1899, when the post office in Salem was made a sub-station of that of Winston, the cities (officially two independent municipalities) have been known by postal and railway authorities as Winston-Salem.

A considerable portion of the old wall was laid bare by the excavations for the new Post Office in St Martin's-le-Grand.

The fury of the Viennese found expression in violent demonstrations, in which, for the first time, employees of the State took part in uniform, among them employees of the State railways and of the post-office.

The post-office, formerly the meeting-house of the Estates, a building adorned with old frescoes; the royal palace, which contains some very fine Renaissance work; and the townhall, built in 1446 and restored in 1860, are also noteworthy.

He reformed the post-office, improved the banking system of Russia, regulated the finances, constructed roads, and united the Uniate and Orthodox churches.

In Monument Square near the post-office and the court-house is the white marble Battle Monument, erected in 1815 to the memory of those who had fallen in defence of the city in the previous year; it is 52 ft.

The normal practice of the post office is to return documents if not delivered to the correct addressee.

The cost of these works had been underestimated, and the report of the Select Committee of the Post Office (Telegraph Department), 1876, states that " the committee have not received any full and satisfactory explanation of the great differences between the estimated expenditure of 1869 and the actual expenditure incurred up to 1876."

Lord Curzon restored, at his own cost, the monument which formerly commemorated the massacre of the Black Hole, and a tablet let into the wall of the general post office indicates the position of the Black Hole in the north-east bastion of Fort.

She has often gone with me to the post-office to mail letters, and I suppose I have repeated to her things I wrote to you.

When mailing documents that contain personal identification information, place the mail directly into the United States Postal Service collection boxes or directly at the post office.

Visit the post office and ask if there are any forwarding addresses for the ones you have.

Bring the item you want to recycle to your local post office and they will provide a box and shipping materials for the item for free.

The post office also works with the OSRAM SYLVANIA and Veolia Environmental Services to help customers recycle used CFL light bulbs.

You don't want to lose a sale or receive negative feedback because you misplaced an e-mail or didn't drive to the post office on time.

U.S. Postal Service employees who work behind the counter at retail post office locations are required to wear uniforms.

A post office was established here in 182 9, and the village was incorporated in 1861.

Probably no more arduous task was ever thrown upon a public department than that imposed on the Post Office by the transfer.

Inasmuch as the debenture stocks and preference shares would have to be redeemed in 1911 at premiums ranging from 3 to 5 per cent., the state would have to pay the company £253,000 in excess of the total of the outstanding securities in order to enable the ordinary shares to receive par, and in the council's view this payment would diminish the p robability of the Post Office being able to afford a substantial reduction in the telephone charges.