Postal system, the institution almost invariably under the control of a government or quasi-government agency that makes it possible for any person to send a letter, packet, or parcel to any addressee, in the same country or abroad, in the expectation that it will be conveyed according to certain established standards of regularity, speed, and security.
A follow-up letter and packet of information about GAS and infection control measures were also sent to the nursing home.
All letters and packets up to one pound in weight were delivered for one penny (1 d).
The Committee of Secrecy was relieved to report that rumors that the Secret Department of the Post Office had, at times, sent "entire mail-bags" to the Home Office were false: "None but separate Letters or Packets are ever sent".
After a Rip Van Winkle sleep, the enterprise has been revived, the earlier volume now reissued with 200 new letters and packets of fresh annotation, with a second volume bringing the correspondence to 1925.
In time, automated drones could be used as city couriers delivering letters and packets around congested cities or over difficult terrain.
When the postmaster in Lisbon detained the letters and packets arriving from England for the men for fear that they would carry seditious communications, Jervis set up a post office aboard his flagship to receive and distribute all the letters that arrived for both seamen, marines and officers.
General Dubik, now retired, said in an interview that he, too, received a letter and information packet, and as a result briefed Iraq's defense minister.
Perhaps it was a plan for an experiment with new agricultural methods on his land, or correspondence with a like-minded officeholder in another state, or a letter to a packet merchant requesting scientific instruments from France or philosophical texts from England.
Had it spotted Strømme's letter in the packet, it would have told her that she had a potential conflict on the proposal and routed it to somebody else.
I took the letters to the POWs and brought a packet of letters from them back to their families.
