Some sources, however, place Clippard Post Office a few miles south of Laflin.

It is named after Sylvester M. Laflin, a director of the St. Louis & Iron Mountain Railroad.

* Clippard-Located somewhere northeast of Laflin, possibly near a county road crossing of Granny Creek.

Hazard Powder Company was one of the three largest ( with DuPont and Laflin & Rand ) among the six companies of the United States Gunpowder Trade Association popularly known as the powder trust.

* Matthew Laflin, ( 1803 – 1897 ) an American Businessmen, Philanthropist, and a founder of Chicago, Illinois.

Laflin is a borough in the Greater Pittston area of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States.

Laflin is located at.

The area in and around Pittston is referred to as Greater Pittston and includes Avoca, Dupont, Duryea, Exeter, Exeter Township, Hughestown, Jenkins Township, Laflin, Pittston, Pittston Township, West Pittston, West Wyoming, Wyoming, and Yatesville.

Matthew Laflin Rockwell ( 1915 – 1988 ) was the director of planning for the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers and responsible for the site selection and design of O ' Hare International Airport.

He was the great grandson of Matthew Laflin, a founder and pioneer of Chicago.

* Addison H. Laflin, congressman

Son of Zenas Marshall Crane and Louise Fanny Laflin, Winthrop was a leading member of the Crane family of Dalton, Massachusetts, owners of the privately held Crane Paper Company, sole suppliers of the paper for the Federal Reserve Notes, the currency of the United States.

California Powder Works began producing a mixture of nitroglycerine and nitrocellulose with ammonium picrate as Peyton Powder, Leonard Smokeless Powder Company began producing nitroglycerine-nitrocellulose Ruby powders, Laflin & Rand negotiated a license to produce Ballistite, and DuPont started producing smokeless shotgun powder.

Rather than paying the required royalties for Ballistite, Laflin & Rand financed Leonard's reorganization as the American Smokeless Powder Company.

By that time Laflin & Rand had taken over the American Powder Company to protect their investment, and Laflin & Rand had been purchased by DuPont in 1902.

* Fordyce L. Laflin ( 1824-1887 ), New York businessman and politician

Addison H. Laflin ( R )

It was Baker, working through Provost Marshal Enoch Crowder and Major Hugh S. ( `` Old Ironpants '' ) Johnson, who arranged for a secret printing by the million of selective service blanks -- again before the Act was passed -- until corridors in the Government Printing Office were full and the basement of the Washington Post Office was stacked to the ceiling.

He was delighted to learn that the Post Office Department is now going to expand this service to deliver mail from Representatives in Congress to their constituents without the use of stamps, names, addresses or even zone numbers.

In accordance with legislation passed at the last session of Congress, each Representative is authorized to deliver to the Post Office in bulk newsletters, speeches and other literature to be dropped in every letter box in his district.

Rain of near cloudburst proportions had fallen for three full days and it was still raining on the morning of Friday, November 4, 1927, when officials of the Post Office Department's Railway Mail Service realized that their distribution system for Vermont had been almost totally destroyed overnight.

During the second week of operations, Fogg received a telegram from the Post Office Department, asking him to `` put on two airplanes and make two flights daily, plus one Sunday trip ''.

Tampering with the Post Office may infuriate every voter who can write.

As I was walking back to the Police Station, which was in the same building with the City Hall and Post Office, I saw Mrs. Tim Williams sneaking into the back of my car.

You can mail contribs to Danny Thomas, Post Office Box 7599, Chicago.

He said contributions also could be mailed to Post Office Box 553, Warren Village Station.

The town centre is home to a number of high street multiples, including: Greggs, Argos, Specsavers, Wilkinson's, Shoe Zone, Superdrug, Costa Coffee, JJB Sports, Cash Generator, GAME, Poundland, Timpson, Althams Travel, Ladbrokes, Paddy Power, Claire's, Grainger Games, Post Office, Thomas Cook, Thomson, Burton, Holland & Barrett, Dorothy Perkins, Blockbuster, WHSmith, H Samuel, Iceland, Phones 4U, Boots Opticians, Card Factory, Boots, Store Twenty One, Poundworld, Peacocks, B & M Bargains, Wetherspoons and a mix of other shops.

Starting in 1938, Post Office Telephones laid dedicated cables, for numerous telephone and telegraph circuits, from the nearby repeater station at Fenny Stratford ( on Watling Street, the main road linking London to the north-west, later to be designated the A5 ).

A relatively small number of men were also employed on a part-time basis, typically for one shift each week ( e. g. Post Office employees who were experts in Morse code or the German language ).

File: VM 5485 China Post Office car at Zhengzhou Train Station. jpg | A photo that shows text on both sides of a China Post vehicle

Old Post Office in 1910

From 1950 onward, census forms were mailed to every address on record with the United States Post Office, including the Armed Services Postal System, in an effort to enhance completeness of the data collected.

This was later renamed BT-CORAL when British Telecom was spun off from the Post Office.

Image: Laxalt Building, 2007. jpg | < center > Former Carson City Post Office

Remains of the Darwin Post Office after the first Japanese raid in 1942

General Post Office ( Dublin ) | The GPO on O ' Connell Street was at the centre of the 1916 Easter Rising.

DPNSS was developed in the early 1980s by BT, or its forerunner, Post Office Telecommunications in recognition that the emerging Digital Private Circuit Primary Rate product ' Megastream ' had to address the market for both data and voice, the latter being significantly greater because of the market for PBXs.

The British Post Office adopted the Baudot system during 1897 for a simplex circuit between London and Paris.

The British Post Office adopted it for a simplex circuit between London and Paris during 1897, then used it for more general purposes from 1898.

* During 1949, the French Post Office issued a series of stamps with his portrait.

The Hahn Post Office started sometime in 1895 and existed until January 31, 1954.

Before the establishment of the Chickamauga Post in 1902 by United States Army, an unincorporated city existed, where Fort Oglethorpe was later established, called Hargrave, Georgia after the name of the land owner and ex-Confederate soldier, William Hamilton Hargrave.

Kell's earlier name was Little Ridge but renamed April 1, 1895 by the U. S. Post Office because another Little Ridge, Illinois existed.

The Eldon Post Office existed from March 20, 1911, until May 30, 1936.

The Cayuga Post Office existed from June 11, 1884, until April 30, 1905.

The Cleora Post Office existed from November 28, 1900 until October 15, 1954.

The Dennis Post Office existed from March 25, 1914, until January 31, 1956.

The Dodge Post Office existed from November 20, 1901, until August 15, 1941.

" One story suggests that the town was simply named after Milan, Italy, because of similarities in the climate, but truly, the climate of Milan in Northern Italy, is cold and continental ; another says that the name was supposed to have been " Milam ," but the United States Post Office Department either got it wrong or changed it intentionally because another Milam, Texas, already existed.

Post Offices that existed along railroad lines and at various military posts have their own special historical aspect.

In 1885 the Post Office established a Special Delivery service, issuing a ten-cent stamp depicting a running messenger, along with the wording “ secures immediate delivery at a special delivery office .” Initially, only 555 such offices existed but the following year all U. S. Post Offices were obliged to provide the service — an extension not, however, reflected on the Special Delivery stamp until 1888, when the words “ at any post office ” appeared on its reprint.

The Railway Mail Service organization within the Post Office Department existed between 1864 and September 30, 1948.

** Observation Post version existed with dummy gun, two No. 19 radios and No. 18 radio.

** Observation Post version existed with dummy gun, two No. 19 radios and No. 18 radio.

The Mozarabic of today uses the Pauline words, and no Gallican Recital of the Institution remains in full ; but in both the prayer that follows is called ( with alternative nomenclature in the Gallican ) Post Pridie and the catchwords " Qui pridie " come at the end of the Post-Sanctus in the Gallican Masses, so that it is clear that this form existed in both.

Local legend has it that the early residents applied for a post office named to honour their former employer the Foley Brothers, but were frustrated in their wishes because the name Foley Post Office already existed near Parry Sound.