Sentence examples for postage system from inspiring English sources

December 3, 1795 Kidderminster, England August 27, 1879 Hampstead, England Sir Rowland Hill, (born December 3, 1795, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England died August 27, 1879, Hampstead, London) British administrator and educator, originator of the penny postage system, principally known for his development of the modern postal service, which was subsequently adopted throughout the world.

If you can't keep drugs out of maximum-security jails, trying to extract them from the internet and the global postage system is an exercise in futility.

The creation of the stamps also led to a structural expansion of the national postage system, which in 1830 had counted just 123 post offices and 240 postmen.

He said electronic postage systems are likely to be too complex and would charge noncommercial users who should be able to send e-mail free.

Microsoft has been floating a similar proposal, labeled "caller ID," that could be expanded in the future to accommodate more sophisticated anti-spam approaches including Internet postage systems.

Correction: February 3 , 2004 Tuesday An article in Business Day yesterday about electronic stamps and other proposed deterrents to e-mail spam misstated the affiliation of David Farber, a computer scientist who said electronic postage systems were likely to be too complex and would impose costs on noncommercial users who should be able to send e-mail free.

The Irish Post Office has never publicised an official stamp numbering system for the postage stamps they issued, so collectors use a stamp numbering system from one of the most popular stamp catalogues, such as Stanley Gibbons, Scott, MacDonnell Whyte, MDW (last edition 1991), Hibernian or Michel.

Under the existing system, postage costs were paid by the receiver rather than the sender, which discouraged people from receiving, and therefore sending, letters.

Last year it took over an account that Pitney held for customers who paid in advance to use an early postage-by-phone system.

Many journals receive thousands of submissions a year and publish hundreds of articles, making electronic systems attractive for postage savings alone.

One was guideline daily amounts (GDAs) and the other was a traffic-light system - a postage-stamp sized sticker that used a colour code to denote the percentage of a person's recommended daily allowance contained in each product - red for high, amber for medium and green for low.