Sentence examples for postal fee from inspiring English sources

With our present day sensibility, it is hard to think back to a day when air travel for letters was a rarity--a special service promising speedy delivery and therefore worthy of an extra postal fee.

But there are problems with ordering systems, customs and postal fees, he said.

The modern stamp was invented in 1837 by Rowland Hill, a former British schoolteacher, who suggested that postal fees — traditionally paid by the recipient — be prepaid with "a bit of paper" that would be "covered at the back with a glutinous wash".

The agency receives no tax dollars for day-to-day operations and relies on income from stamps and other postal fees to keep running.

Sensitivity analysis revealed that ICERs were related to participation rates, screening test costs (Pap smear analysis and HPV test), medical consultation extra fees, postal fees and self-sampling device cost.

The pilot program, which will start in the second half of this year, will be an extension of Japan Post Group's "Watch Over" service, where for a nominal fee, postal workers check on elderly customers and report back to their families.

According to the president's 2008 budget, fees for postal services would increase from about $73.6 billion in 2007 to $76.7 billion in 2008.

The company also scrambled to accommodate customers by opening its offices on the weekends, providing emergency funds and travel services, and waiving late payment fees because of postal delays.

Negotiations over pay-fors have centered on broadband spectrum auctions, increasing TSA fees, reforming the postal service (including counting the savings from going from 6-day-a-week delivery to 5-day-a-week delivery), and reforming pensions for federal workers.

There is no fee for taking the postal exam.

Higher postal rates and increases in insurance and professional fees are hurting profit, NCO said.