Sentence examples for postal contract from inspiring English sources

a contract with the United States Postal Service, the principal purpose of which is the operation of postal contract stations.

In obtaining these highly prized postal contracts, an intricate ring of bribery and straw bidding was set up in the Postal Contract office; the ring consisted of contractors, postal clerks, and various intermediary brokers.

President James Garfield appointed special prosecutor William Cook in 1881 to investigate the awarding of postal contracts for so-called star routes in the West and Southwest.

To obtain these highly prized postal contracts, contractors, postal clerks, and various intermediary brokers set up an intricate ring of bribery and straw bidding in the Postal Contract Office.

In 1895 Fields acquired the postal service contract for mail between Cascade and St. Peter's Mission.

Armstrong considered Landis's move traitorous, while Landis considered Armstrong unreasonable, pointing out that Phonak had doubled Postal's contract offer.

Less than two years after Mr. Levinson recommended that Ford receive the electric postal truck contract, the company pulled the vehicles out of service, saying batteries were not available, and substituted gasoline-powered Windstar vans.

Even as the USPS is negotiating with its unions, it has unveiled a proposal to have Congress eliminate no-layoff provisions in postal union contracts.

In the early 1870s, lucrative postal route contracts were given to local contractors on the Pacific coast and southern regions of the United States.

The next surprise was that postal workers could contract anthrax from spores in mail.

The actions that led to the raid were actually an effort by the Starrs to show the government how lax security is at contract postal units, they said.