#postal services

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Canada Post says it will move ahead with plan to end home delivery - National | Globalnews.ca

Last year, the federal government said Canada Post would be allowed to end door-to-door mail delivery to individual addresses and close or c

Canada Post is moving ahead with its modernization plan, which will see the end of door-to-door mail delivery as had been expected under restructuring directives, the Crown corporation said in a statement Tuesday. The changes come as part of the federal government’s direction to Canada Post to “implement transformative changes to ensure we can meet the evolving needs of Canadians without becoming a recurring burden on taxpayers,” the statement said. “These proposed changes include converting the remaining addresses that still receive delivery at the door to community mailboxes and modernizing our retail network,” a Canada Post statement said.

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[blondebrainpowered]

US Women's Army Corps WAC

6888 Battalion an all black battalion in WWII.

The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, nicknamed the "Six Triple Eight", was an all-Black battalion of the US Women's Army Corps (WAC) that managed postal services.

The 6888th had 855 women and was led by Major Charity Adams. It was the only all Black US Women's Army Corps unit sent overseas during World War II. The group motto was "No mail, low morale". The battalion was organized into five companies: Headquarters, and Companies A, B, C, and D. Most of the 6888th worked as postal clerks, but others were cooks, mechanics and held other support positions, so that the 6888th was a self-sufficient unit.

Members of the Battalion in a May 1945 parade honoring Joan of Arc where she had been burned at the stake.

[vintagepromotions]

'Post your letters before noon for first delivery next morning in England and Wales'

General Post Office poster (c. 1940). Artwork and design by Jan Le Witt and George Him.

[ravenroseglaive]

Which countries suspended parcel shipments to US? Here's a list

Which countries suspended parcel shipments to US? Here's a list https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/08/28/countries-suspended-postal-shipments-to-us-list/85867109007/

Over 30 countries suspended or restricted shipments to US. Here's a list.

The pauses are in response to President Donald Trump's decision to end a trade agreement that for years allowed low-value packages to avoid

[dedibelyegei]

Visszatérünk kicsit a remek és megboldogult Csehszlovákiába egy igen egyszerű, de végülis nagyszerű kis bélyeggel. Egy négytagú sorozat második tagjáról van szó, melynek témája és címe, egyszerűen csak 'Postai szolgáltatások' volt. Volt már a blogon olyan bélyeg, aminek kicsit nehezebb volt megállapítani a pontos évszámát, nos ennek valóban kb. lehetetlen konkrétan, ugyanis a sorozatot a 1974 és 1979 között folyamatosan nyomták, évszámjelzés nélkül. Szóval ebből az időszakból bárhonnan lehet, és a kis pecsétmaradvány sem segít sokat rajtunk. Ennek eredményeképp, teljesen meghökkentő, több 100 milliós darabszámokról beszélhetünk, azért ez egy ekkora országban, még hat év alatt is extrém, dehát gondolom ez volt a basic bélyeg ami mindig volt mindenütt. A sorozat érdekessége még, hogy 'páros', tehát két-két bélyeg épül egy designtematikára, köthető össze egyértelműen mint egy sorba tartó. A 20 és 40 haleres kidolgozottabb, klasszikusabb megjelenésű, míg a ezen a 30-ason és a 60-ason a számérték dominál és (akkori viszonyban) modernebb, letisztultabb a grafika. A 20-ason postakürt látható, toronnyal, ez itt fent boríték közepén a csehszlovák posta emblémájával, a 40-esen lovaspostás látható, a 60-ason pedig egy SÁRGA stilizált postagalamb, szintén a logóval.

A horror mennyiségnek köszönhetően, szinte értéktelenek, egy ilyen postatiszta sorozat mint itt fent, 200-300 forinttól elérhető.

[easternblocrelics]

Buddy (magazine) You can be subcribed at your local post office Issued by the Youth Newspaper Publishing Co. Backside: Use the services of the Hungarian Postal Services 1969

[takaraphoenix]

For the address thing, I’m from Canada, and honestly we do the same thing when it comes to writing out an address. Like I don’t really think about tacking on Canada unless I already know it’s out of country and even then it’s A Thing I Have To Remember. I don’t know why, it’s just not really a thing here? Do you include the country when you mail things within your country in addition to internationally? I’m really geographically ignorant so this is probably gonna be dumb, but do most countries have a breakdown like the US and Canada where it’s divided into provinces/states/etc? Because my go to is just town + province and I’m pretty sure it’s the same in America. Where you are, is it town + country instead? Or, if you do have a province like division, do you list all three all the time?

Obviously I don't put the country on when I send something within the country. But if you order something online from what I understand to be a private person doing commissions, unless they actually have it stated somewhere that they're from the US, you really can't expect them to be from your country.

When engaging with a total stranger who is selling something, you should tell them in what country you live. Because other countries exist and even if the person you commission from or buy from has their country somewhere accessible for you, they are still not a mindreader to know that you live in the same country so they still need to know where to send the thing you're buying...

I don't know if every country has a concept of provinces/states, my country does, but what Bundesland you live in is already within the zipcode so you don't have to add that. Long as you provide that it's supposed to go to Germany, they know to figure out what state the zipcode corresponds to. I suspect that due to the ridiculous size of the US, you still gotta clarify which state.

You give the full name of the person you want to send something to, the house number and street, zipcode and city and, if you send it from outside the country, also the country.