He is not one to remain more comfortably and unquestioningly within a body of social, cultural, or literary traditions than he was within the traditions -- or possibly the regulations -- governing his tenure in the post office at Oxford, Mississippi, thirty-five years ago.

Sure enough, mail began trickling in, delivered by a talkative, highly amused French postman who informed me there had been quite a debate at the post office as to whether that address would be recognized.

`` I have been waiting across the street at the post office since dawn.

The two men sat for some time, savoring the pleasure of escape from peril and the relief such escape brings, before they got up and left the hotel, the doctor to go to the conference house and Alex to go to the main post office.

Additional promotional activities included organizing the dedication program for Operation Turnkey, the new automated post office, and a conference with representatives of Brown University, Providence College, and University of Rhode Island, and eight electronics concerns regarding the inauguration of a training program for electronics personnel.

It seemed like a good time for officials to use a recently-passed law empowering the post office department to contract for the transport of first class mail by air.

From that point on he said he went to the post office and then walked leisurely to where his niece was staying, more than a mile away.

Cousin Emma had simply put Miss Theresa Stubblefield, Rome, Italy, on the envelope, had walked up to the post office in Tuxapoka, Alabama, and mailed it with as much confidence as if it had been a birthday card to her next-door neighbor.

This 1959 cover commemorated the opening of the Wilkes post office in the Australian Antarctic Territory.

Around this time, the Alcott family set up a sort of domestic post office to curb potential domestic tension.

The Belgian post office also released a set of stamps to coincide with the exhibition.

a postától jövök it would mean one is coming from being stood next to the post office, and that you were not inside the building.

Remains of the walls of this fort were discovered west of the castle when excavating the foundations for a new post office and telephone exchange building in the late 1960s.

It contains a post office, a chapel, several houses and a small play park.

It was known as Anderson Station until the post office was established in November 1855 and the government changed the name of the station from “ Anderson ” to “ Andersonville ” in order to avoid confusion with the post office in Anderson, South Carolina.

The town served as a supply depot during the period, and it included a post office, a depot, a blacksmith shop and stable, a couple of general stores, two saloons, a school, a Methodist church, and about a dozen houses.

The first post office in the village opened on 28 July 1884.

The first post office opened in 1872.

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The Golgi apparatus is somewhat like a post office.

In 1870, a central post office was established at Bala Hissar in Kabul and a post office in the capital of each province.

Anderson operated three Havana automobile service stations and was commander of the Havana American Legion post before it disbanded since the start of Fidel Castro's regime.

By 1910, the town had a hotel which also operated as a post office.

These reforms included guarantees to ensure the Ottoman subjects perfect security for their lives, honour, and property ; the introduction of the first Ottoman paper banknotes ( 1840 ) and opening of the first post offices ( 1840 ); the reorganization of the finance system according to the French model ( 1840 ); the reorganization of the Civil and Criminal Code according to the French model ( 1840 ); the establishment of the Meclis-i Maarif-i Umumiye ( 1841 ) which was the prototype of the First Ottoman Parliament ( 1876 ); the reorganization of the army and a regular method of recruiting, levying the army, and fixing the duration of military service ( 1843 – 44 ); the adoption of an Ottoman national anthem and Ottoman national flag ( 1844 ); the first nationwide Ottoman census in 1844 ( only male citizens were counted ); the first national identity cards ( officially named the Mecidiye identity papers, or informally kafa kağıdı ( head paper ) documents, 1844 ); the institution of a Council of Public Instruction ( 1845 ) and the Ministry of Education ( Mekatib-i Umumiye Nezareti, 1847, which later became the Maarif Nezareti, 1857 ); the abolition of slavery and slave trade ( 1847 ); the establishment of the first modern universities ( darülfünun, 1848 ), academies ( 1848 ) and teacher schools ( darülmuallimin, 1848 ); establishment of the Ministry of Healthcare ( Tıbbiye Nezareti, 1850 ); the Commerce and Trade Code ( 1850 ); establishment of the Academy of Sciences ( Encümen-i Daniş, 1851 ); establishment of the Şirket-i Hayriye which operated the first steam-powered commuter ferries ( 1851 ); the first European style courts ( Meclis-i Ahkam-ı Adliye, 1853 ) and supreme judiciary council ( Meclis-i Ali-yi Tanzimat, 1853 ); establishment of the modern Municipality of Istanbul ( Şehremaneti, 1854 ) and the City Planning Council ( İntizam-ı Şehir Komisyonu, 1855 ); the abolition of the capitation ( Jizya ) tax on non-Muslims, with a regular method of establishing and collecting taxes ( 1856 ); non-Muslims were allowed to become soldiers ( 1856 ); various provisions for the better administration of the public service and advancement of commerce ; the establishment of the first telegraph networks ( 1847 – 1855 ) and railroads ( 1856 ); the replacement of guilds with factories ; the establishment of the Ottoman Central Bank ( originally established as the Bank-ı Osmanî in 1856, and later reorganized as the Bank-ı Osmanî-i Şahane in 1863 ) and the Ottoman Stock Exchange ( Dersaadet Tahvilat Borsası, established in 1866 ); the Land Code ( Arazi Kanunnamesi, 1857 ); permission for private sector publishers and printing firms with the Serbesti-i Kürşad Nizamnamesi ( 1857 ); establishment of the School of Economical and Political Sciences ( Mekteb-i Mülkiye, 1859 ); the Press and Journalism Regulation Code ( Matbuat Nizamnamesi, 1864 ); among others.

The last railway post office operated between New York and Washington, D. C. on June 30, 1977.

Because they were unaware that several controls needed to be operated to fully activate the repeater system, fire chiefs at their command post in the lobby of the North Tower thought the repeater was not functioning and did not use it, though it did work and was used by some firefighters.

Telemetry was an important source of intelligence for the US and UK when Soviet missiles were tested ; for this purpose, the US operated a listening post in Iran.

He operated a trading post and occasionally worked as a surveyor's assistant.

The first business at that crossroads was the trading post and country store operated by Marre & Allen.

A school was built at Hay Flat in 1910 and operated until it was consolidated with the Kermit school in 1913 ; that year the Hay Flat post office closed.

A post office operated there from 1929 to 1944, but the town dwindled long before the post office closed.

In 1825 only three post offices operated in all of York County, at Yorkville, Blairsville and Hopewell, but by 1852 York District had 27.

* Lodge-Previously known as Sumac, the post office that once operated here changed its name to Lodge around 1880.

Peg-Leg Smith established and operated a trading post on the Oregon Trail from 1848-1850 near Dingle.

A post office operated from 1902 to 1912, then reopened in 1984.

A second post operated by " Old Man " William B. Leonard opened soon after.

When the Saint Louis-San Francisco ( Frisco ) railroad came through the area thirty years later, a small passenger and freight station was built and a post office to serve the small community was set up across the road in the back of the general store that was operated by the McNabs.

Custom of the time allowed the person who operated the post office to give it a name.

A post office operated at Concow from 1882 to 1906, renamed from Con Cow to Concow in 1895, and relocated several times.

A post office operated in Thermalito from 1895 to 1920.

A post office operated at Byron Hot Springs from 1889 to 1930.

A post office operated at Pacheco from 1859 to 1913 and from 1955 to the present.

The Shingle Spring post office operated from 1853 to 1855.

A post office operated in Biola from 1912 to 1918, and from 1920 to the present.

A post office operated at Bowles from 1904 to 1943.