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It arrived by the 9.30pm delivery that night, was corrected, caught the last collection at the Highgate post office at half-past midnight, and the printers had a revised galley on the desk by 9.30am.
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Prior to the Postal Act of 1863, intercity letters were either held at the destination post office for pick-up or delivered by an independent contractor.
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The first pillar boxes were erected at St Helier in Jersey in 1852, at the recommendation of novelist Anthony Trollope - who was an employee of the General Post Office at the time.
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The name change goes hand-in-hand with a corporate revolution at the Post Office.
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The mailman delivers to a post-office box about 10 miles away at the only restaurant-bar in Pioneertown, a tiny dot created by Hollywood in the 1940s as a backdrop for filming westerns.
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As she is still a minor under Swazi law, her mother, a public-relations manager at the post office, can claim to speak for her.
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It certainly helps to get a movie some good post-opening publicity if it does gangbusters at the box office.
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Everyone would like, I think, to see a robust postal service -- the Post Office represents the nation at home.
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Judy Andonian, 67, of Manchester-by-the-Sea, who was dropping off mail at the post office in Wenham, said she recently moved back to Massachusetts from Arkansas to be closer to her grandchildren.
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The post office features a 23-sided Art Deco dome with a fountain at its centre.
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The coroner's office said it would be "at least another week" before a second post-mortem examination takes place.
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At that time, she had never held elected office or even a party post, but was more popular than the little-known Mr Jospin.
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