Download or read book My First Trip to the Post Office written by Katie Kawa and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging book explains how a letter gets from one person to another in a way that beginning readers will find educational and enjoyable. Using a fictionalized approach, this book follows a child’s letter from the day it is written to the day it is delivered. Through a relatable story, bright illustrations, and accessible text—young readers follow along as the letter is taken to the post office.
Download or read book My First Trip to the Post Office Mi primera visita al correo written by Katie Kawa and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a fictionalized approach, this bilingual book follows one child on a visit to the post office, making this easily relatable experience exciting for beginning readers to learn about and shows English language learners how mail gets from one person to another. The story tracks a letter through the postal system, showing the path of dropping the letter off the day it is written through the day it is delivered. Accessible text presented in both English and standard Latin American Spanish is accompanied by colorful illustrations, making this a trip to the post office that young readers will be sure to remember.
Download or read book How the Post Office Created America written by Winifred Gallagher and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Post Office written by Charles Bukowski and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book This Is My Post Office written by Adam Bellamy and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using simple language and high text/photo correlation, young readers will learn about what to expect at the post office, including why people go there and what a postal carrier does. A Words to Know section at the beginning of the book helps students learn new vocabulary they will encounter in the text, while suggestions for other titles and websites encourage students to learn more.
Download or read book A Trip to the Post Office De visita en el correo written by Josie Keogh and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Getting a package or card in the mail is very exciting. Some of the things you can do at a post office, such as buying stamps, checking a PO box, and sending a letter are addressed through accessible, age-appropriate language. The easy-to-follow text is written in both English and standard Latin-American Spanish, making it a great learning tool for students of either language.
Download or read book My First Trip to the Library Mi primera visita a la biblioteca written by Katie Kawa and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English language learners will be eager to explore their libraries after reading this bilingual book. Using a fictionalized approach, this book allows beginning readers to discover the library through the eyes of a child, including meeting the librarian and using a library card. Bright illustrations and easy-to-follow text presented in both English and standard Latin American Spanish explains the most important parts of a visit to the library in an entertaining way.
Download or read book Hearings Before the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department House of Representatives on House Resolution No 109 to Investigate the Post Office Department written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Expenditures in the Post-Office Department and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How to Screw the Post Office written by Mr. Unzip and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Post Office! Everybody complains about it, but nobody does anything about it -- until now, that is. Now, Mr. Unzip reveals lots of ways you can send First Class Mail for less -- sometimes even for free! -- How to fool the five million dollars worth of Optical Character Readers and Bar Code Sorters the Post Office has installed in most sorting operations in the U.S.A. -- Finding the weaknesses in the P.O.'s high tech machines -- How to send First Class letters for only 2 each -- How to reuse cancelled stamps -- How to literally cut your postage rates in half -- Using "G Forces" to mail letters for less -- How to mail First Class letters so they won't be cancelled -- Mailing letters for free using a postage meter -- The ethics of screwing the Post Office -- What to do if you get caught -- And more.
Download or read book The Post Office Book written by Gail Gibbons and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1986-05-23 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you ever mail a letter and wonder what happens to it after you drop it in the box? Read all about the post office and learn how letters are weighed, sorted, transported, culled, canceled, coded, binned, boxed, and sorted once again. Find out how people and machines work together to deliver the letters you send. Children's Books of 1982 (Library of Congress)
Download or read book The Great Post Office Scandal written by Nick Wallis and published by Bath Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Post Office Scandal is the extraordinary story behind the recent ITV drama series Mr Bates vs The Post Office. This gripping page-turner recounts how thousands of subpostmasters were accused of theft and false accounting on the back of evidence from Horizon, the flawed computer system designed by Fujitsu, and how a group of them, led by Alan Bates, took their fight to the High Court. Their eventual victory in court vindicated their claims about the defects of the software and exposed the heavy handed attempts by the Post Office to suppress them. The book also chronicles how successive senior managers, business leaders, lawyers, civil servants and Government ministers, at best failed to expose the injustice or, even worse, sought to cover it up, resulting in one of the largest miscarriages of justice in UK history. The author, Nick Wallis, is a journalist and broadcaster who has been reporting on the scandal for over ten years and who acted as script consultant on Mr Bates vs The Post Office, the ITV drama that brought the affair into the national consciousness. As the public inquiry reaches its climax, and senior figures such as Paula Vennells come to be questioned, The Great Post Office Scandal reveals the full scale of what happened and will leave you enraged at how so many of our trusted institutions allowed the saga to go on for nearly a quarter of a century, shattering the lives of thousands of innocent people.
Download or read book A Post Office Tragedy written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.
Download or read book Treasury Post Office Departments Appropriations for 1954 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Treasury Post Office Departments and Executive Office Appropriations for 1966 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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