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    The United States Post Office Department (USPOD; also known as the Post Office or U.S. Mail) was the predecessor of the United States Postal Service,...
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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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  • Several United States post offices are individually notable and have operated under the authority of the United States Post Office Department (1792–1971)...
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  • article: Rowan v. United States Post Office Department Rowan v. Post Office Dept., 397 U.S. 728 (1970), is a case in which the United States Supreme Court...
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    The United States Post Office and Courthouse, also known as Texarkana U.S. Post Office and Federal Building and as Texarkana U.S. Post Office and Courthouse...
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    in the United States, this often led to smaller communities being renamed after their post offices, particularly after the Post Office Department began...
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    was completed in 1941. These shipments, overseen by the United States Post Office Department, totaled roughly 417 million troy ounces (12,960 metric tons)...
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  • The Office of Special Counsel was an office of the United States Department of Justice established by provisions in the Ethics in Government Act that...
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  • Post Office, the former English and British postal service Post Office Limited, retail post office company in the United Kingdom United States Post Office...
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    competitive process by the United States Department of the Treasury. Some 1,400 murals were created for federal post office buildings in more than 1,300...
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    the United States, the chief of protocol is an officer of the United States Department of State responsible for advising the president of the United States...
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  • president and take office after confirmation by the United States Senate, and serve at the pleasure of the president. The heads of departments are members of...
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    The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is the U.S. federal executive department responsible for public security, roughly comparable to...
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    In Canada and the United States, a railway post office, commonly abbreviated as RPO, was a railroad car that was normally operated in passenger service...
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    the Post Office Department showed a man on a running horse, even as railroads and, later, motorized trucks and airplanes moved mail. In 1971, the Post Office...
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    The United States Department of Labor (DOL) is one of the executive departments of the U.S. federal government. It is responsible for the administration...
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    the United States. The surgeon general's office and staff are known as the Office of the Surgeon General (OSG), which is housed within the Office of the...
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  • The British Post Office scandal, also called the Horizon IT scandal, involved Post Office Limited pursuing thousands of innocent subpostmasters for shortfalls...
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    India Post is an Indian government-operated postal system in India, and is the trade name of the Department of Post under the Ministry of Communications...
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    United States airmail was a service class of the United States Post Office Department (USPOD) and its successor United States Postal Service (USPS) delivering...
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    Post Office in Powell, Wyoming, was built in 1937 as part of a facilities improvement program by the United States Post Office Department. The post office...
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    Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) proposed that the United States Post Office Department construct a post office on 8th Avenue, across from the station. In February...
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    Howard Taft and operated by the United States Post Office Department, predecessor of the United States Postal Service, from January 1, 1911, until July...
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    distinct from the postal savings stamps issued by the United States Post Office Department, the Post Office nevertheless played a major role in promoting and...
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    abandon the fort. However, the United States Post Office Department continued to handle the mail of the seceded states as usual during the first weeks...
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    The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), also known as the Justice Department, is a federal executive department of the United States government...
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    The General Post Office (GPO) was the state postal system and telecommunications carrier of the United Kingdom until 1969. Established in England in the...
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    The United States Department of War, also called the War Department (and occasionally War Office in the early years), was the United States Cabinet department...
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    Act of 1970, which dissolved the United States Post Office Department, replaced it with the more corporate United States Postal Service, and guaranteed...
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    The United States Department of Commerce (DOC) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government concerned with creating the conditions for economic...
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