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A 5 page paper on the internal workings of the mail system in the U.S. Included is a brief overview and history of the Postal Service along with economic and financial data. Bibliography included.
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the perseverance of the mounted messenger service used by Xerxes, king of Persia. Some type of postal service has existed in civilized parts of the world since at least 2000
BC. With a postal service it is possible to send a letter or package to nearly any destination in the world for a small fee. Most postal
services are government agencies, and they are often monopolies. They have been established to assure that mail is picked up and delivered on a regularly scheduled basis with speed and
security. In most cases the service is paid for in advance by the sender. This is done by putting a postage stamp or some other indication
of payment on the object being sent. Many companies and other institutions use postage meters that imprint the place of origin and amount of postage. A letter or package
leaves the sender as a single item and is delivered the same way. From the time it reaches a post office until it is delivered, however, it becomes one of
billions of items that are mass processed in almost assembly-line fashion. In the late 1980s, for example, the United States Postal Service processed nearly 150 billion items annually.
The largest postal system in the world is the United States Postal Service. In the late 1980s there were more than 780,000 employees working in nearly 40,000 post offices and
postal substations throughout the country. The service handles about half of the total volume of the worlds mail. The Soviet Union had about 90,000 post offices, but they handled a
smaller volume. The United States Postal Service is an independent agency of the executive branch of the federal government. It was created by the Postal Reorganization Act
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