Sentence examples for that postage from inspiring English sources

It was back in 2005 that postage stamps bore the red ribbon for Aids awareness and today, vending machines in the capital sell cheap condoms and syringes.

The staff is instructive, and Quist is happy to mail his merchandise abroad, but he warned that postage is often more expensive than a toothbrush.

Mark D. Merritt, chief executive of the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, whose membership includes companies that deliver prescription drugs by mail, said in an interview that postage increases coupled with one fewer day of delivery would be the worst outcome.

Nothing to be ashamed about there, Tom, I thought: at the rate that postage prices seem to rise, the stamp may have been less expensive when I began writing this post.

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

After all, that postage stamp-size video kind of jerks along, and on a small 15 or 17 inch monitor, it almost looks like it might be acceptable.

Jodi Kantor correctly notes that postage-stamp-sized television screens are incapable of displaying much detail, then asserts that "what the tiny new televisions lose in spectacle, they make up in intimacy" ["The Extra-Large, Ultra-Small Medium," Oct. 30].

At age 17, Thorpe was such an Australian hero after winning two gold medals on Day 1 of the swimming competition that a postage stamp had been issued in his name and strangers had begun to impersonate him.

Far from being obscure, many of those threatened are Class A amphibians – the kind of jewel-coloured frogs that adorn postage stamps and star in David Attenborough documentaries.

The poster warns that excessive postage, no return address, a foreign postmark, misspelled words, a strange odor, and protruding wires may be signs of a bomb.

The envelopes also bore 37-cent American flag stamps, not a bulk mailing mark, meaning that the postage bill alone could have been at least $370,000.