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Andy McMillan for The Wall Street Journal Cheraw, S.C., Mayor Scott Hunter said some 60 antebellum homes made it through the Civil War, and that he's determined to see the town's historic post office, built in the 1930s, with molding and detail work that is 'just awesome to see' makes it through postal-service cost cutting.
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"This is a study and offices can and will be removed for extenuating circumstances," said postal-service spokeswoman Sue Brennan.
Post-Office Closure List Sent Jennifer Levitz 2011
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A tall heavy man with a white beard and mustache, Ronda took his postal-service credo very seriously and had been known to deliver mail even when he was ill.
Baby Games Chelsea White 2010
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The image — now iconic in France — of Besancenot riding his own yellow postal-service bicycle, with its big blue mail satchel up front, has served him well alongside the mythology of his maxim, "I am not a professional politician."
France Goes Postal 2009
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A postal-service spokesman said he was unaware of any discussions.
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He then appeared to backtrack on postal-service changes -- an important agenda for which the ruling bloc won an overwhelming electoral victory in 2005.
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-- Ron Moreau and Hassan ShahriarJAPAN: Investors Counting on a Koizumi VictoryEver since Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi boldly announced his unwillingness to back down on postal-service reforms in Japan last week, foreign investors have been watching the country with anticipation.
Periscope 2008
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Despite having crossed the country in opposite directions, the pair united via e-mail when Tarsier reached out to Alias after being inspired by his work, and worked in a postal-service style collaboration for almost two years before meeting up.
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Despite having crossed the country in opposite directions, the pair united via e-mail when Tarsier reached out to Alias after being inspired by his work, and worked in a postal-service style collaboration for almost two years before meeting up.
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Barely three months have passed since a midlevel postal-service bureaucrat was filmed taking a fistful of reais worth $1,300 from a would-be government contractor.
LULA'S TRIAL BYFIRE 2007
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