* 1976 – Ben Gibbard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service, and ¡ All-Time Quarterback!

Neither the strip's shifting political leanings nor the slide of its final few years had any bearing on its status as a classic, and in 1995 Li ' l Abner was recognized as such by the United States Postal Service.

Even the United States Postal Service got into the act, issuing a series of commemorative stamps marking the comic-strip centennial in 1996.

On July 11, 1996, the United States Postal Service issued a commemorative stamp depicting " Mighty Casey.

The city was originally named Ellensburgh, until the final-h was dropped under standardization pressure from the United States Postal Service and Board of Geography Names in 1894.

* 1792 – The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by President George Washington.

* In 1965, the U. S. Postal Service honored Douglass with a stamp in the Prominent Americans series.

* The United States Postal Service honored him with a 14 ¢ postage stamp in 1972.

Pei's associate Araldo A. Cossutta was the lead architect for the plaza's North Building ( 955 L ' Enfant Plaza SW ), South Building ( 490 L ' Enfant Plaza SW ), and Center Building ( 475 L ' Enfant Plaza SW ; now the United States Postal Service headquarters ).

* 1959 – The and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.

* On December 12, 1954, the United States Postal Service released a 5 ¢ Liberty Issue postage stamp honoring Monroe.

The United States Postal Service honored Dewey with a Prominent Americans series 30 ¢ postage stamp.

Robinson has also been honored by the United States Postal Service on three separate postage stamps, in 1982, 1999, and 2000.

* He was honored by the United States Postal Service with a 22 ¢ Great Americans series postage stamp.

The program was criticized in the media as an encroachment upon the First and Fourth Amendments, and the United States Postal Service balked at the program, refusing outright to participate.

* In 1988, the United States Postal Service honored Rockne with a 22 cent postage stamp in his honor.

# The national postal service for the sender's country ( e. g., the Royal Mail, UK ; US Postal Service, US ; Australia Post in Australia ; or Canada Post in Canada ) empties the postbox and takes all the contents to the regional sorting office.

Marijane Meaker later wrote that she was told to make the relationship end badly in Spring Fire because the publishers were concerned about the books being confiscated by the U. S. Postal Service.

Noah Webster 4-cent United States Postal Service | United States stamp, 1958

* 1991 – In Royal Oak, Michigan, a fired United States Postal Service employee goes on a shooting rampage, killing four and wounding five before committing suicide.

The United States Postal Service ( USPS ) in October 2008 issued four stamps with Nutcrackers for the first time.

The US Postal Service released a postage stamp featuring Ogden Nash and six of his poems on the centennial of his birth on 19 August 2002.

Larger metropolitan post offices are PCES ( Postal Career Executive Service ).

The United States Postal Service operates the Paris Post Office.

In the 2000s the United States Postal Service has been installing Automated Postal Centers in many locations both in post offices ( for when they are closed or busy ) and in retail locations.

A third business, the " New People's Store " recently closed its doors when the U. S. Postal Service decided to end its operation in Luverne.

More recently, the United States Postal Service allowed residents to use " Montclair, VA " in their mailing address and on July 1, 2005, Montclair was given a separate ZIP code ( 22025 ).

Examples of this are receipts at point of sale ( though they have mostly been relegated to being backups for when electronic POS devices fail ) or for on-the-spot fine notices, duplicate, checks, and some money orders ( though the United States Postal Service has recently converted to an electronic format ), and tracking slips for various expedited mail services requiring multiple copies.

More recently, he has put into place Moist von Lipwig, who revamped the postal service without costing the taxpayers anything ( Going Postal ).

More recently, another score of 1 was handed to Postal III, which was cited for its glitches and bad gameplay.

Brightlight recently produced its sequel, White Noise 2: The Light, starring Nathan Fillion and Katee Sackhoff with Gold Circle Films ; In the Name of the King, starring Jason Statham, Ray Liotta, Burt Reynolds and John Rhys-Davies ; 88 Minutes, starring Al Pacino and Wicker Man, starring Nicolas Cage both for Nu Image / Millennium Films and Emmett Furla Films as well as the TV series Saved for TNT with Fox 21, Slither ; Postal, based on the video game of the same name and American Venus, directed by Bruce Sweeney and starring Rebecca De Mornay ; which recently screened at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival, along with the psychological thriller They Wait, starring Sin City ’ s Jaime King and directed by Ernie Barbarash.

Very quickly after the regrouping Jens Voigt and Juan Antonio Flecha broke away, they were joined by four others, but never got further than 20 seconds ahead and soon rejoined the US Postal led peloton.

The stone spent the next two years below ground level in a station of the Postal Tube Railway at Mount Pleasant near Holborn.

Notable efforts in this regard include: the purchasing by the magazine of a bona fide Scottish noble title, a test of the U. S. Postal Service in which letters were addressed only with the photograph of the intended recipient ( the letter sent to Cardinal John Joseph O ' Connor was successfully delivered ), and, to test the ethical limits of the public relations industry, the successful pitching of a chain of fast-food restaurants that served burgers of freshly ground rabbit meat and was fronted by a fuzzy-eared mascot who told customers how delicious his species was to humans.

President Domingo Sarmiento ordered the construction of the Postal headquarters in 1873 on open ground that had remained after the south wing of the Buenos Aires Fort had been demolished.

Postal codes in Belgium consist of four digits which indicate regional areas, e. g. " 9000 " is the postal code for Ghent.

* BIPT-Belgian Institute for Postal Services and Telecommunications

Membership in International Organizations: The major organizations in which Colombia is a member include: the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean, Andean Pact, Caribbean Development Bank, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Group of 3, Group of 11, Group of 24, Group of 77, Inter-American Development Bank, International Atomic Energy Agency, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, International Chamber of Commerce, International Civil Aviation Organization, International Criminal Police Organization, International Development Association, International Finance Corporation, International Fund for Agricultural Development, International Labour Organization, International Maritime Organization, International Maritime Satellite Organization, International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), International Olympic Committee, International Organization for Migration, International Organization for Standardization, International Telecommunication Union, International Telecommunications Satellite Organization, International Trade Union Confederation, Latin American Economic System, Latin American Integration Association, Latin Union, Non-Aligned Movement, Organization of American States ( OAS ), Permanent Court of Arbitration, Rio Group, United Nations ( UN ), UN Conference on Trade and Development, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UN Industrial Development Organization, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, Universal Postal Union, World Confederation of Labour, World Federation of Trade Unions, World Health Organization, World Intellectual Property Organization, World Meteorological Organization, World Tourism Organization, and World Trade Organization.

Sichuan ( spelled Szechuan in the once common Postal Romanization ), is a style of Chinese cuisine originating in the Sichuan Province of southwestern China famed for bold flavors, particularly the pungency and spiciness resulting from liberal use of garlic and chili peppers, as well as the unique flavour of the Sichuan peppercorn ( 花椒, huājiāo ) and zhitianjiao ( 指天椒, zhǐtiānjiāo ).

The Afghanistan Postal commission was formed to prepare a written policy for the development of the postal sector, which will form the basis of a new postal services law governing licensing of postal services providers.

" Ray invariably mocks " Cambridge, Mah " the US Postal Service's two letter abbreviation for " Massachusetts " by pronouncing it as a word.

The European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations ( CEPT ) was established on June 26, 1959, as a coordinating body for European state telecommunications and postal organizations.

* European Committee for Postal Regulation ( CERP, after the French " Comité européen des régulateurs postaux ")-responsible for postal matters

Others prefer pinyin-based Daoism because of growing acceptance internationally of Hanyu Pinyin as the standard romanization for Chinese, as reflected in other recent spelling changes such as the pinyin Beijing that replaced the Wade Pei-ching or Chinese Postal Map Romanization Peking.

In 1982, work began to develop a European standard for digital cellular voice telephony when the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations ( CEPT ) created the Groupe Spécial Mobile committee and provided a permanent group of technical support personnel, based in Paris.

An international reply coupon ( IRC ) is a coupon that can be exchanged for one or more postage stamps representing the minimum postage for an unregistered priority airmail letter of up to twenty grams sent to another Universal Postal Union ( UPU ) member country.

Additionally outside the region, Kibibati is a member or participant of the ACP ( Lomé Convention ), the Asian Development Bank, the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific ( ESCAP ), the Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ), the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Civil Aviation Organization, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, the International Development Association, the International Finance Corporation, the IMF, International Maritime Organization, International Olympic Committee, International Telecommunication Union ( ITU ), Universal Postal Union and the World Meteorological Organization.

Laos is a member of the following international organizations: Agency for Cultural and Technical Cooperation ( ACCT ), Association of Southeast Asian NationsASEAN, ASEAN Free Trade Area ( AFTA ), ASEAN Regional Forum, Asian Development Bank, Colombo Plan, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific ( ESCAP ), Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ), Group of 77G-77, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( World Bank ), International Civil Aviation Organization ( ICAO ), International Development Association ( IDA ), International Fund for Agricultural Development ( IFAD ), International Finance Corporation ( IFC ), International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, International Labour Organization ( ILO ), International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), Intelsat ( nonsignatory user ), Interpol, International Olympic Commission ( IOC ), International Telecommunication UnionITU, Mekong Group, Non-Aligned Movement ( NAM ), Permanent Court of Arbitration ( PCA ), United Nations, United Nations Convention on Trade and Development ( UNCTAD ), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ), United Nations Industrial Development Organization ( UNIDO ), Universal Postal Union ( UPU ), World Federation of Trade Unions, World Health Organization ( WHO ), World Intellectual Property Organization ( WIPO ), World Meteorological Organization ( WMO ), World Tourism Organization, World Trade Organization ( observer ).