Sentence examples for private postal service from inspiring English sources

Penny Post, private postal service created by the London merchant William Dockwra in 1680.

At 77, Reg Tuffin, who runs Lundy's private postal service, is the closest the island has to a local, having been there for 15 years.

If you want to complain against a private postal service provider your options are the same as for other commercial services.

In Al bany, Kenneth De Lisle set up a private postal service and had printed his own stamps bearing the likeness of one William B. Winnie, Albany's first mailman.

But the government argues that private investment is needed to continue that modernisation programme and compete with growing private postal service operators.

Of these, one questionnaire from the experimental group was returned using United Parcel Service, a private postal service, and is included in the analysis as a response in the experimental group.

According to a US government report, users of specialty site Aquabid simply ignored requirements to provide customs documentation for animals, instead sending them via private postal services.

The book looks at six essential services that have fallen, or have begun falling, into private hands: the postal service, the railways, water, social housing, electricity supply and the NHS.

It has a sewage treatment plant and a post office, which uses only private couriers, since the local postal service is understaffed and unreliable.

As the union says: "CWU is concerned that unfair competition is undermining the sustainability of the universal service … Private postal company mail makes up 45% of letter volumes delivered by Royal Mail, a figure which has consistently grown under competition arrangements.

The government notes that the injection of private capital into postal services seems to have worked elsewhere.