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Post Office
Author | : Charles Bukowski |
Publsiher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2009-10-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780061844041 |
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Charles Bukowski’s classic roman à clef, Post Office, captures the despair, drudgery, and happy dissolution of his alter ego, Henry Chinaski, as he enters middle age. Post Office is an account of Bukowski alter-ego Henry Chinaski. It covers the period of Chinaski’s life from the mid-1950s to his resignation from the United States Postal Service in 1969, interrupted only by a brief hiatus during which he supported himself by gambling at horse races. “The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates “He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter
Canadian Postal Guide
Author | : Canada. Post Office Department |
Publsiher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2019-12-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : EAN:4064066161996 |
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Canadian Postal Guide by the Canada Post Office is a guidebook to provide the most useful shipping and mailing options for Canadians. Contents: " Page A Few Facts about the Post Office in Canada 9 Chief Officers of the Department at Quebec 15 Post Office Inspectors 15 Postal Divisions 16 RULES AND REGULATIONS: Officers 17 Post Office 17 Office Hours 18 Mails 18 Rates of Postage on Letters 19 Soldiers' and Seamen's Letters 20 Rates of Postage on Newspapers..."
How the Post Office Created America
Author | : Winifred Gallagher |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2016-06-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780399564031 |
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A masterful history of a long underappreciated institution, How the Post Office Created America examines the surprising role of the postal service in our nation’s political, social, economic, and physical development. The founders established the post office before they had even signed the Declaration of Independence, and for a very long time, it was the U.S. government’s largest and most important endeavor—indeed, it was the government for most citizens. This was no conventional mail network but the central nervous system of the new body politic, designed to bind thirteen quarrelsome colonies into the United States by delivering news about public affairs to every citizen—a radical idea that appalled Europe’s great powers. America’s uniquely democratic post powerfully shaped its lively, argumentative culture of uncensored ideas and opinions and made it the world’s information and communications superpower with astonishing speed. Winifred Gallagher presents the history of the post office as America’s own story, told from a fresh perspective over more than two centuries. The mandate to deliver the mail—then “the media”—imposed the federal footprint on vast, often contested parts of the continent and transformed a wilderness into a social landscape of post roads and villages centered on post offices. The post was the catalyst of the nation’s transportation grid, from the stagecoach lines to the airlines, and the lifeline of the great migration from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It enabled America to shift from an agrarian to an industrial economy and to develop the publishing industry, the consumer culture, and the political party system. Still one of the country’s two major civilian employers, the post was the first to hire women, African Americans, and other minorities for positions in public life. Starved by two world wars and the Great Depression, confronted with the country’s increasingly anti-institutional mind-set, and struggling with its doubled mail volume, the post stumbled badly in the turbulent 1960s. Distracted by the ensuing modernization of its traditional services, however, it failed to transition from paper mail to email, which prescient observers saw as its logical next step. Now the post office is at a crossroads. Before deciding its future, Americans should understand what this grand yet overlooked institution has accomplished since 1775 and consider what it should and could contribute in the twenty-first century. Gallagher argues that now, more than ever before, the imperiled post office deserves this effort, because just as the founders anticipated, it created forward-looking, communication-oriented, idea-driven America.
Neither Snow Nor Rain
Author | : Devin Leonard |
Publsiher | : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2016-05-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780802189974 |
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“[The] book makes you care what happens to its main protagonist, the U.S. Postal Service itself. And, as such, it leaves you at the end in suspense.” —USA Today Founded by Benjamin Franklin, the United States Postal Service was the information network that bound far-flung Americans together, and yet, it is slowly vanishing. Critics say it is slow and archaic. Mail volume is down. The workforce is shrinking. Post offices are closing. In Neither Snow Nor Rain, journalist Devin Leonard tackles the fascinating, centuries-long history of the USPS, from the first letter carriers through Franklin’s days, when postmasters worked out of their homes and post roads cut new paths through the wilderness. Under Andrew Jackson, the post office was molded into a vast patronage machine, and by the 1870s, over seventy percent of federal employees were postal workers. As the country boomed, USPS aggressively developed new technology, from mobile post offices on railroads and airmail service to mechanical sorting machines and optical character readers. Neither Snow Nor Rain is a rich, multifaceted history, full of remarkable characters, from the stamp-collecting FDR, to the revolutionaries who challenged USPS’s monopoly on mail, to the renegade union members who brought the system—and the country—to a halt in the 1970s. “Delectably readable . . . Leonard’s account offers surprises on almost every other page . . . [and] delivers both the triumphs and travails with clarity, wit and heart.” —Chicago Tribune
U S Postal Service
Author | : United States. General Accounting Office |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Postal service |
ISBN | : UOM:39015048860996 |
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Postal Service Curtailment
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 78 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : LOC:00158851714 |
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Pt. 1: Considers possible curtailment of certain postal services due to PO Dept personnel ceiling; pt. 2: Continuation of hearings on desirability of exempting post office service from personnel ceiling contained in 1968 Revenue Act that if implemented, would result in curtailment of postal services.
Treasury Postal Service and General Government Appropriations Bill 1999
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : PURD:32754068114010 |
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Treasury Postal Service and General Government Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1992
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 572 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : IND:30000088104413 |
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