Sentence examples for mail packet from inspiring English sources

To make his case in London, Jefferson Davis dispatched two Confederate commissioners in November 1861 aboard the Trent, a British mail packet.

He was then about three miles from the Admiralty Pier, and was passed by the afternoon mail packet from Calais and by the twin steamer Castalia.

Folger explained that merchant ships routinely crossed the then-unnamed Gulf Stream identifying it by whale behavior, measurement of the water's temperature and the speed of bubbles on its surface, and changes in the water's color while the mail packet captains ran against it.

The Board of Customs in Boston had complained that the English mail packets took two weeks longer to make the westward crossing than the Rhode Island merchant ships did.

Another program the College Board is creating will reach out online and mail packets to college-ready low-income students to encourage them to apply to more schools.

A Committee of Parliament decided in 1836 that to become more competitive, the mail packets operated by the Post Office should be replaced by private shipping companies.

Called a "packet" for the mail packets carried on government mail contracts, the term in the 19th century came to mean a steamer line operating on a regular, fixed daily schedule between two or more cities.

For those in the mail survey mode, the initial mailing packet consisted of a cover letter, two HIPAA Authorization Forms (one to be returned and one for the participant's files) that granted permission for the researchers to link surveys with medical record information from the REP, a survey, and a business reply envelope.

The Salesians fought back, depositing anti-Chagnon leaflets at the annual A.A.A. convention and mailing packets of letters — including one from Lizot — to anthropology departments across the country, denouncing his claims.

By mass mailing packets of legal paperwork to prisoners, PAPS helped put family members in touch with Prisoners Legal Action Network (PLAN), and this week, Crispino and lawyers delivered administrative legal filings to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

Soon after contacting Thomson, she received in the mail a packet of poems by D. H. Lawrence Thomsonon's suggested texts for the cycle.