• The Postal Alpha Numeric Encoding Technique (PLANET) barcode was used by the United States Postal Service to identify and track pieces of mail during...
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  • POSTNET (Postal Numeric Encoding Technique) is a barcode symbology used by the United States Postal Service to assist in directing mail. The ZIP Code or...
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    multi-frequency and crossbar switching systems. The USPS Postal Alpha Numeric Encoding Technique (PLANET) uses the same weights, but with the opposite bar-height...
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  • are used to represent the political divisions of the United States for postal addresses, data processing, general abbreviations, and other purposes. This...
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    ZIP Code (redirect from Postal zone)
    (an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan) is a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS). The term ZIP was chosen to suggest that...
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  • A postal worker is one who works for a post office, such as a mail carrier. In the U.S., postal workers are represented by the National Association of...
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  • 8, Clause 7 of the United States Constitution, known as the Postal Clause or the Postal Power, empowers Congress "To establish Post Offices and post...
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    The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service, is an independent agency of the executive branch...
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  • United States Postal Service is the governing body of the United States Postal Service (USPS). The board oversees the activities of the Postal Service, while...
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    light transport truck model, designed as a mail truck for the United States Postal Service, which has been its primary user since it first entered service...
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  • telescopes used for photometry Postal Alpha Numeric Encoding Technique, a barcoding system for sorting mail used by the US Postal Service Planet (software)...
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    Package tracking (category Postal systems)
    specialized augmented postal codes such as Postal Alpha Numeric Encoding Technique (PLANET), Postal Numeric Encoding Technique (POSTNET) and Intelligent...
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    associated with the American postal worker. Though not an official creed or motto of the United States Postal Service, the Postal Service does acknowledge...
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  • postal marking may refer to: POSTNET, Postal Numeric Encoding Technique, which encodes ZIP codes, ZIP+4 codes and (optionally) delivery points Postal...
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  • Postal killings in various countries resulted in fatalities that have occurred on the properties of postal systems or related issues/events. The main sections...
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    The Postal Service Reform Act of 2022 is a federal statute intended to address "the finances and operations of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS)", specifically...
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    United States Postmaster General (category United States Postal Service)
    postmaster general (PMG) is the chief executive officer of the United States Postal Service (USPS). The PMG is responsible for managing and directing the day-to-day...
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    The Postal Reorganization Act of 1970 was a law passed by the United States Congress that abolished the then U.S. Post Office Department, which was a part...
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    Oshkosh NGDV (category United States Postal Service)
    Generation Delivery Vehicle (NGDV) will be a mail truck for the United States Postal Service (USPS). The contract award, made to Oshkosh Defense, a wholly-owned...
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    United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), or the Postal Inspectors, is the federal law enforcement arm of the United States Postal Service. It supports...
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    Intelligent Mail barcode (category Postal markings)
    United States Postal Service use. This is accomplished using two digits, with the second digit in the range of 0–4. The allowable encoding ranges are 00–04...
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    The National Postal Museum, located opposite Union Station in Washington, D.C., United States, covers large portions of the postal history of the United...
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    The United States Postal Service Office of Inspector General (OIG) was created by Public Law 104–208, passed by Congress in 1996. The inspector general...
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  • Network distribution center (category United States Postal Service)
    the United States Postal Service that distributes standard mail and package services in piece and bulk form. The United States Postal Service currently...
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    The United States Postal Savings System was a postal savings system signed into law by President William Howard Taft and operated by the United States...
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  • Railway Mail Service (category United States Postal Service)
    mid-19th century until the mid-20th century. The RMS, or its successor the Postal Transportation Service (PTS), carried the vast majority of letters and packages...
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  • A Nixie is a name given by the United States Postal Service to a piece of mail which is undeliverable as addressed. It is derived from "nix", English slang...
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  • The Inspectors (category Fiction about the United States Postal Service)
    Litton Entertainment. Centering on the criminal investigations of U.S. postal inspectors, it was the only show on commercial television paid for by a...
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    American Postal Workers Union (APWU) is a labor union in the United States. It represents over 200,000 employees and retirees of the United States Postal Service...
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    Comstock laws (category United States federal postal legislation)
    and Articles of Immoral Use. This Act criminalized any use of the U.S. Postal Service to send any of the following items: obscenity, contraceptives, abortifacients...
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