Postal system Postal system An address is a code and abstract concept expressing the fixed location of a home, business or other building on the earth's surface. ...more on Wikipedia about "Address (geography)"
Airmail (or air mail) is mail that is transported by aircraft. It typically arrives more quickly than surface mail, and usually costs more to send. Airmail may be the only option for sending mail to some destinations, such as overseas, if the mail cannot wait the time it would take to arrive by ship, sometimes weeks. A postal service may sometimes opt to transport some regular mail by air, perhaps because other transportation is unavailable, but it is usually impossible to know this by examining an envelope, and such items are not considered "airmail". ...more on Wikipedia about "Airmail"
A backstamp, in philately, is a postmark on the back of a cover (almost invariably an envelope), showing a post office or station through which the cover passed in transit. ...more on Wikipedia about "Backstamp"
Balloon Mail refers to the transport of mail (usually for weight reasons in the form of a postcard) carrying the name of the sender by means of an unguided hydrogen or helium filled balloon. Since the balloon is not controllable, the recipient of a balloon mail is left to coincidence. Often the balloon and postcard are lost. A found balloon should be returned to the sender (by conventional post) with an indication of the discovery site, so that the sender can determine how far their balloon flew. A balloon mail is an airborne " Message in a bottle". Frequently balloon mail is part of a balloon competition. ...more on Wikipedia about "Balloon mail"
The United States Postal Service defines bulk mail broadly as "quantities of mail prepared for mailing at reduced postage rates." The preparation includes presorting by ZIP code. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bulk mail"
CASS (Coding Accuracy Support System) enables the USPS to evaluate the accuracy of address-matching software programs. CASS is offered to all mailers, service bureaus, and software vendors who want to evaluate their address-matching software and improve the quality of their ZIP+4, carrier route, and five-digit coding accuracy. ...more on Wikipedia about "CASS"
A commercial mail receiving agency (CMRA) typically operates as a Private Mail Box Operator and thus is given the designation PMB insted of POB. ...more on Wikipedia about "Commercial mail receiving agency"
Computerized postage is the use of electronic equipment to meter and pay postage. Most systems include an electronic scale to measure the weight of the package in order to calculate the postage owed. Besides convenience, their primary advantage over stamp-based postage is their ability to print out exact amount due, avoiding the overpayment problem common with fixed-denomination stamps. However, computerized postage systems suffer from the trusted client problem. ...more on Wikipedia about "Computerized postage"
Courtesy reply mail, or CRM, is a type of mail in which a business sends pre-printed, self-addressed envelopes or postcards to customers, who then affix postage stamps to the envelopes or postcards and mail them back to the business. Alternatively, the business can disseminate the envelopes or postcards with stamps already affixed, similarly to metered reply mail. ...more on Wikipedia about "Courtesy reply mail"
Dead Letter is also colloqually applied to any set of instructions, especially a law, that has lost its authority without being formally abollished or repealed. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dead letter mail"
In a postal system, a delivery point (sometimes DP) is a single mailbox or other place at which mail is delivered. It differs from a street address, in that each address may in fact have several delivery points, such as an apartment flat, office department, or other room. Such a building (mainly only residential) is often called a multiple-dwelling unit (MDU) by the USPS. ...more on Wikipedia about "Delivery point"
Dogsled mail or dog team mail is mail carried by dogsled. This form of mail transport saw limited use in the northern parts of Alaska and Canada during the first half of the 20th century. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dogsled mail"
An envelope is a packaging product, usually made of flat, planar material such as paper or cardboard, designed to contain a flat object such as a letter. The traditional type is made from a sheet of paper cut to one of three shapes : the rhombus (also referred to as a lozenge or diamond), the short-arm cross, and the kite. These designs ensure that when the sides of the sheet are folded about a delineated central rectangular area, a rectangular-faced, usually oblong, enclosure is formed with a symmetrical arrangement of four flaps on the reverse side with overlapping edges. ...more on Wikipedia about "Envelope"
Franking is the right, typically granted to certain elected officials by the government, to send mail for free. An authorized person exercises the franking privilege by causing his or her signature or a facsimile thereof to be added to the upper right corner of a letter or parcel in lieu of a postage stamp. ...more on Wikipedia about "Franking" My shortopedia and me.
Freepost is a postal service provided by various postal authorities, whereby a person sends mail without affixing postage, and the recipient pays the postage when collecting the mail. Freepost differs from self-addressed stamped envelopes, courtesy reply mail, and metered reply mail in that the recipient of the freepost pays only for those items that are actually received, rather than all that are distributed. ...more on Wikipedia about "Freepost"
The term General Post Office is or has been used by a number of postal and telecommunications governmental administrations worldwide, including: ...more on Wikipedia about "General Post Office (disambiguation)"
The General Post Office, Mumbai is the central post office of the city of Mumbai, India. The post-office handles most of the city's inbound and outbound mail and parcels. Situated in the vicinity of Victoria Terminus, this outstanding structure is a paradigm of Indo-Saracenic architecture. ...more on Wikipedia about "General Post Office, Mumbai"
Hate mail is mail ( electronic, postal, or otherwise) which is threatening towards the addressee, or exceptionally abusive or offensive. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hate mail"
Henri Pequet ( 1888- 1974) was a pilot in the first official airmail flight on February 18 1911. The 23 year old Frenchman, in India for an airshow, delivered about 6,500 letters when he flew from Allahabad to Naini, about 10 kilometers away. He flew a Sommer biplane with about fifty horsepower (37 kW), and made the journey in thirteen minutes. ...more on Wikipedia about "Henri Pequet"
(Indicia) Preprinted marking on a mailpiece which shows that postage has been paid by the sender. ...more on Wikipedia about "Indicia"
Information Based Indicia refers to a system used by the United States Postal Service for labels or marks to be applied to the mail item to indicate electronic postage payment. ...more on Wikipedia about "Information Based Indicia" http://www.shortopedia.com rocks.
An international reply coupon (IRC) is a coupon that can be used to post a standard 20 gram letter anywhere in the world. IRCs are accepted and available in all Universal Postal Union (UPU) member countries. ...more on Wikipedia about "International reply coupon"
Irradiated mail is mail that has been deliberately exposed to radiation, typically in an effort to disinfect it. The most notable instance of mail irradiation occurred in response to the 2001 anthrax attacks; the level of radiation chosen to kill anthrax spores was so high that it often changed the physical appearance of the mail, in some cases spectacularly so. ...more on Wikipedia about "Irradiated mail"
Kenya Posts and Telecommunications Corporation was a government company that provided telecommunication and postal services across Kenya. It enjoyed a monopoly, and prices were generally high while service was poor. For example, it was common for a technician from KP&TC to take eight months to fix a problem from the time a ticket was issued. The corporation was broken up into two, Telcom Kenya Limited and Postal Corporation of Kenya to offer telecommunication and postal services respectively. This break up was due to pressure from IMF, but it never resulted in any substantial change. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kenya posts and telecommunications corporation"
L-Mail, or Lmail is short for "letter mail", and is a method of sending a real physical letter via an Internet web page. ...more on Wikipedia about "L-mail"
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