Sentence examples for slow postal from inspiring English sources

These phones compensate for inadequate infrastructure, such as bad roads and slow postal services, allowing information to move more freely, making markets more efficient and unleashing entrepreneurship.

The foundations must be customer values — in the above case, fascination with and preference for fast fax over slow postal service — rather than on mere function.

This digital technology has become successful in making the market more efficient in some underdeveloped regions where there are inadequate infrastructure facilities (e.g., bad roads and slow postal services).

He identified four reasons that exacerbated the situation: lack of discipline, standard of food, lack of recreation and slow postal service.

When I was in Athens, Greece, just over 10 years ago, the service was so slow that postal customers would bring folding chairs with them and prepare to spend the day -- glaring at newcomers in that particular kind of Greek way that says, tourists, go away.

That means that the slow bureaucracy of postal ballots and turnout thresholds designed to prevent workers from taking collective action goes out the window.

IT TOOK ARTHUR H. PITNEY nearly 20 years to convince the slow-moving U.S. postal officials that postage meters were a good idea.

As my partner and I walked down the street, a mail carrier she knows from a different post office slowed down in his postal vehicle and yelled, "CONGRATULATIONS!" And then, an afterthought, he yelled, "NO FAIR, NO FAIR!" "We all thought he was going to retire next," said my partner, with wonder in her voice.

The Vietnamese postal service recognized slow lorises on a postage stamp by using a picture of a Bengal slow loris and her infant published by the San Diego Zoo in February 1999.

Equally disturbing, public health authorities and postal officials were slow to recognize the dangers faced by many postal workers at facilities in Washington and New Jersey that had handled anthrax-contaminated letters.

Returning officers responsible for overseeing the electoral process claim the new verification requirements for postal votes will slow down the results, which are expected to be called during the course of Friday.