More than two centuries ago the Postal Service started. ... Many ideas have been presented to make the Postal Service more efficient. ... My grandfather is a postal worker, and his truck gets fourteen miles to the gallon. ... To counteract how much mail carriers are driving to deliver less mail, mail volume has to step up. ... It is cheaper to send packages through the Postal Service than with UPS or Fed-Ex (Source D). ...

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How much does your air mail cost today: about 10–20 cents per ounce? ... Appointed postmaster general by President Hebert Hoover in 1928, Brown has asked a Congress for legislation that would give him the authority to change existing postal policy; one of those times was inefficient and costly. ... When Brown has stepped in the postmaster position the cost per mile of air mail was $1.10. ... Because of frequent crashes costs of air mail flied up to $2.21. Air mail has recovered only in 1941. ...

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E-mail is the world's fastest growing communication medium. ... First, e-mail is fast and cheap. ... To put that into perspective, the Urbanski 2 U.S. postal Service delivers about 100 billion pieces of mail a year. ... Third, e-mail also helps people at work. ... E-mail is cheap and fast. ...

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The amount of "junk mail" from the post office that I receive does not seem to be increasing. Some mail delivered by the postal service might be annoying, but the unwanted email we refer to, as spam is way beyond annoying. ... Unlike standard postal mailing where the sender pays the postage, the recipient of spam has to pay to receive the e-mail. ... Apart from being very irritating, managing and deleting unwanted e-mail takes time and effort. ... This means there is no control over the content of e-mail. ...

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Over the past year there has been a dramatic increase in spam, also known as junk e-mail. It is predicted that by July the amount of spam received by businesses will exceed regular e-mail. ... This is a great opportunity for marketers to advertise their product through e-mail. ... This way is much more inexpensive compared to if they were to send 1 million postal mail ads which would be very costly now in days. ... Others and myself say that receiving junk e-mail is aggravating and frustrating experience one must go through when checking your online mail. ...

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Air Cargo has three forms: air freight, mail and air express. ... Mail dominated revenues until aircraft arrived specifically designed for passengers. Airmail; still only accounts for 2 or 3 percent of airline revenues with the United States Postal Service being the only airline that revenues come completely from carrying mail and is the nation's largest shipper and carrier. ... As a by-product, space was provided below the passenger compartment for baggage, mail and cargo. ... Summary Cargo got its start as mail then packages being moved as mail service. ...

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Even more so when South Carolina asked that the Postal Service not transport mail that contained such anti-slavery documents through South Carolina, Jackson was not to be heard from. Considering the Postal Service was a federal department. ...

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Using valuable info from his friend, a retired train driver, also on the crew, found out all the operations like movements of cash and valuables on postal trains going in and out of London, Reynolds put together a perfect plan for robbing the train. ... In order to get the mail bags full of money, they needed the train to be further down the tracks, so they got Mill's, the injured train driver, and four members of the clan forced him to move the train. ...

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Ben Franklin INVENTOR Ben had poor vision and needed glasses to read. He figured out a way to make his glasses let him see both near and far. He had two pairs of spectacles cut in half and put half of each lens in a single frame. Today, they are called bifocals. Ben was a postmaster he had to ...

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Benjamin Franklin is one of the most famous and respected men in United States history. He not only made some of the most notable discoveries, but also was also deeply involved in the world of politics. Franklin is also remembered as a philanthropist ready to lend a helping hand when he could. ...

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Around 1200, a Mongol clan leader named Temujin had made up his mind to unify Mongols under his leadership. In 1206, he accepted the title of Genghis Khan. He established the Mongol Empire from China to Poland, and he also created the Pax Mongolica. After his death in 1227, his successors extended h...

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Social Media The rise of social media has completely changed the way we communicate and interact with the world. What could have been sent via traditional postal means can now be delivered through electronic mail – in just seconds. Not only can it bypass traditional communication means, it also e...

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Introduction United Parcel Service (UPS) was founded by James "Jim" Casey in 1907. UPS was previously named the American Messenger Company in Seattle, Washington. It was also known as the largest Initial Public Offering (IPO) in U.S. history. The package delivery industry in the U.S offered two basi...

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