This might get a boost now that there are plans for the Universal Postal Union, an international treaty organisation more than a century old that co-ordinates global postal activities, to manage a specialised internet address extension,.post.
At least two early ancestors of the family, then called Tassis, had operated courier services in the Italian city-states from about 1290, but the family's important postal activities began with Franz von Taxis, who served as postmaster to the Holy Roman emperor Maximilian I from 1489 and to Philip I of Spain from 1504.
The scope and range of the postal administration's activities widened in the 19th century to include postal money orders (1817), registered letters (1829), parcel post (1881), the savings bank (1881), and postal checks (giro; 1918).
He is retiring from his job with the family business, a manufacturer of ball bearings, and devoting himself to further development of the collection, which includes rare letters from concentration camp inmates, postal documents illustrating Nazi activities and a Hebrew scripture re-used by a German soldier as a parcel wrapper.
To investigate the biological, social, behavioural and environmental factors associated with non-consent, and non-return of reliable accelerometer data (≥2 days lasting ≥10 h/day), in a UK-wide postal study of children's activity.
This paper investigates the biological, social, behavioural and environmental factors associated with non-consent and non-return of reliable accelerometer data (≥2 days lasting ≥10 h/day) in a UK-wide postal study of children's activity.
Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the biological, social, behavioural and environmental predictors of non-response resulting from study non-consent and non-return of reliable accelerometer data in a UK-wide postal study of children's activity.
Now Japan Post announced it will start a field test with electric vehicles (EVs) for postal services and other business activities as early as next month.
Participants then completed a one-year longitudinal follow-up postal survey of secondary prevention activities.
Information on daily physical activity was collected by postal questionnaire for self-report measures.
