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The practice of numbering houses began on the Pont Notre Dame, in Paris, France in 1463.
The first orthodox system of roadside mailboxes was established in 1653 in Paris to facilitate the interchange of correspondence in the city. The mailboxes were erected at the intersections of main thoroughfares and were emptied three times a day.
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For failing to deliver 42,768 letters, a sentence of 384,912 years or 9 years per letter, was demanded at the prosecution of mailman Gabriel Mar Grandos, 22, at Palma de Mallorca, Spain on 11 March 1972.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981): directed by Bob Rafelson and starring Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange. Tagline: You Will Feel The Heat. Plot outline: This remake of the 1946 movie of the same name accounts an affair between a seedy drifter and a seductive wife of a roadside cafe owner. This begins a chain of events that culminates in murder. Based on a novel by James M. Cain.
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The country with the greatest number of post offices is India, with 144,829 in 1988.
The country with the largest mail service in the world is the USA, whose population amiled 161.6 billion letters and packages in 1989, when the US Postal Service employed 763,743 people, with the world’s largest civilian vehicle fleet of 182,533 cars and trucks.
Switzerland takes first place in the average number of letters and packages which each person mails during one year. The figure was 655 in 1988.
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A Travelling Post Office (TPO) is a type of mail train where the post is sorted en-route. Mail was first sorted on a moving train in a converted horse-box on the Grand Junction Railway, England, in January 1838, at the suggestion of Frederick Karstadt, a Post Office surveyor. Karstadt's son was one of two mail clerks who did the sorting. British TPOs were operated most recently by Rail Express Systems, and their successor EWS. On 9 January 2004 Royal Mail decided to suspend transporting mail by rail. However, Royal Mail reversed this decision over the Christmas season that year, and began operating some TPO trains with EWS competitor GB Railfreight. TPOs were equipped with letter boxes so that mail could be posted whilst the train stood at a station. The post-marks from TPOs are valued by philatelists. TPOs were employed in many British Colonies. The Army Post Office had its own TPOs.
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Oh Mr Postman by B*Witched
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Postman Pat is a BBC stop motion animated children's television series aimed at pre-school children, concerning the adventures of Pat Clifton, a postman in the (fictional) Cumbrian village of Greendale (inspired by the real valley of Longsleddale in Cumberland). Each episode followed the adventures of Pat Clifton, a friendly country postman, and his "black and white cat" Jess, as he delivers the mail through the valley of Greendale. Although he initially concentrates on delivering his letters, he nearly always becomes distracted by an issue of one of the villagers and is usually relied upon to resolve their problems. Notable villagers include the postmistress, Mrs. Goggins, Alf, a farmer, Miss Hubbard, who is nearly always seen out on her bicycle and the local handyman, Ted Glen. Jess the cat (voiced in the second series by Donald Sinden's niece, Milly Sinden) is very vocal in every episode, commenting on the actions and follies of the human characters with a varied range of miaows.
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Post Oak Delight
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The following are all post-related (an amusing use of a word or phrase which has several meanings or which sounds like another word):
He's a good letter carrier. He always keeps you posted.
Old postal workers never die, they just visit the old stamping grounds.
A postal worker was always stamping her feet whenever they would letter.
After getting his master's degree, Bob, got a job as a postman, reconciling that he was still a man of letters.
The detective who went to investigate a burned down post office figured that it must be blackmail.
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The first scheduled airmail service took place between the London suburbs of Hendon and Windsor on 9 September 1911.
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A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
And none will hear the postman's knock/ Without a quickening of the heart./ For who can bear to feel himself forgotten? (W. H. Auden)
Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. (Josh Billings)
I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage. (Henry David Thoreau)
The President of today is just the postage stamp of tomorrow. (Gracie Allen)
The post-office had a great charm at one period of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for. (Jane Austen)
Source: Creative Quotations
Joh Kenmuir of Hamilton, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK licked and affixed 393 stamps in 4 minutes at the BBC TV studios on 26 September 1990.
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A gossip's mouth is the devil's postbag. (Gaelic)
An old spinster is not worth more than an unposted letter. (Hungarian)
Source: Creative Proverbs
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