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Quotes About Postal

Now that this legislation has passed the House, I look forward to the vote in the Senate that will bring us to Conference, where we can resolve any outstanding issues and make this postal reform reality - for the Postal Service and for all Americans.
~ John M. McHugh
Magic, the trick that connects the ordinary to the impossible, was the invisible river that ran through every street and beating heart in Bombay in those years, and nothing, from the postal service to the pleading of beggars, worked without a measure of it.
~ Gregory David Roberts
It had always seemed to Louis that a fundamental desire to take postal courses was being sublimated by other people into sexual activity.
~ Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury
The USPS is self-funding; it does not receive support from tax dollars, and it is required to serve the entire country.
~ Heather Cox Richardson
Consider that in Britain the Royal Mail delivers the post, not the mail, while in America the Postal Service delivers the mail, not the post. These
~ Bill Bryson
Este error en la entrega postal se produjo debido a la forma en que los incentivos económicos se entrelazan con los problemas de identidad en el comportamiento humano. Ser pobre es ser invisible a ojos de los demás seres humanos, y la indignidad de la invisibilidad resulta a menudo peor que la falta de recursos.
~ Francis Fukuyama
Marxists basically like to think that the spirit of history or human consciousness made a terrible boob. The awakening message was intended for classes, but by some terrible postal error was delivered to nations.
~ Francis Fukuyama
In 1978 zip or postcodes were introduced in the Netherlands; they consist of four numbers followed by a space and then to capital letters and are replaced before the name of the town... they referred to the city block in a given street in which the house occurs and thus the Dutch postal code book is the size of a telephone book.
~ Bruce Donaldson
At the same time, Europe's long-dead postal service was resumed. Now Erasmus could become a snail-mail junkie, using a stream of letters24 to unite a community of international eccentrics into a movement which downgraded religion's death ride to heaven and exalted earthly humanity. The moment was appropriate. For the first time since the rise of multicellularity, there was no longer just one global brain but two—one microbial, the other that of man- and womankind.
~ Howard Bloom
I have never spoken to the president about the Postal Service, other than to congratulate me when I accepted the position.
~ Louis DeJoy
Why do you live in hotels? -It simplifies postal matters, it eliminates the nuisance of private ownership, it confirms me in my favorite habit-- the habit of freedom.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered.
~ Grover Cleveland
My mother was a union member. She was a mail carrier, a rural mail carrier. She called herself a 'postal packin' grandma' for a good period of time.
~ Sam Brownback
As a trusted institution with brick-and-mortar facilities in every corner of the United States, our public Postal Service is uniquely positioned to serve as a communications, finance, and service hub for the 21st century.
~ Marcia Fudge
I would rather propose a bureau somewhat similar to that which we have in the Universal Postal Union.
~ Fredrik Bajer
The first RFC went out on April 7, 1969, mailed in old-fashioned envelopes through the postal system. (There was no such thing as email, since they hadn't invented the network yet.)
~ Walter Isaacson
It's Hlynur Bjorn Hafsteinsson, Bergporugotu, 8b, Reykjavik, Iceland. — Is there no postal code? — Oh yes. It's hundred and one Reykjavik. I'm the one.
~ Hallgrimur Helgason
The postcode did not look quite regular. Some hush-hush Trystero carrier?
~ China Mieville
The ghastly thing about postal strikes is that after they are over, the service returns to normal.
~ Richard J. Needham
If you think about what the Postal Service fundamentally does, those guys are trained to get mail and sort mail - there's trust verification.
~ Shiva Ayyadurai
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~ Dean Koontz
A terrified postman.
~ Unknown
Mail in our country serves as an economic engine.
~ Raja Krishnamoorthi
I think the American people should be able to vote by mail.
~ Louis DeJoy