Postal Quotations

Between 1950 and 1951, I worked as a temporary employee in the Cologne Bureau of Statistics. From summer 1951 on, I have lived as a freelance writer with a fixed postal address in Cologne but with a continually shifting place of work.

I thought Paulie could jump. I know he's not fleet of foot, but at least have some hops. I guess we know who is not going to win a gold glove. I was trying to become a spokesperson for the U.S. Postal Service.

Prior to email, our private correspondence was secured by a government institution called the postal service. Today, we trust AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, or Gmail with our private utterances.

Postal service of today is far removed from that of 30 years ago when reform was last enacted.

At the insistence of the Bush administration, Congress in 2006 passed legislation that required the Postal Service to prefund, over a 10-year period, 75 years of future retiree health benefits.

With post offices and postal workers already on the ground, USPS could partner with banks to make a critical difference for millions of Americans who don't have basic banking services because there are almost no banks or bank branches in their neighborhoods.

There are very powerful and wealthy special interests who want to privatize or dismember virtually every function that government now performs, whether it is Social Security, Medicare, public education or the Postal Service.

It is time for Congress to save the Postal Service, not dismantle it.

The Postal Service really isn't in a building mode anymore, and that's throughout the whole country.

The postal service operates everywhere in the U.S., giving us maximum flexibility to expand the relationship in areas or regions where a hydrogen infrastructure gets kicked off.

The Postal Service last raised rates in July 2002,

The Postal Service is huge - employing more than a half million people - and its history is long and complicated.

We've got a postal bill that's pretty high.

There are more pompous, arrogant, self-centered, mediocre-type people running corporate America who should be sent out on some postal route delivering mail.

We have recognized that the postal service should undertake a Section 106 review before selling air rights.

This project demonstrates the value of combining energy efficiency and clean energy technology. The savings created by new, efficient equipment at these facilities are helping to pay for clean, alternative energy - solar and hydrogen fuel cell power. We commend the Postal Service for implementing a comprehensive, cost-effective solution that meets operating needs, improves the employees' work space and benefits the environment.

Since (Koizumi) defined party membership exclusively in terms of members' views on postal privatization, this does not necessarily imply that the party agrees on much else.

My first priority will be postal system reform,

Now that this legislation has passed the House, I look forward to the vote in the Senate that will bring us to Conference, where we can resolve any outstanding issues and make this postal reform reality - for the Postal Service and for all Americans.

No government agency touches the public in the way the United States Postal Service does. No other government agency has the one-to-one, personalized service with its customers, six days a week, 52 weeks a year. Americans trust the Postal Service to be discreet in handling their mail and to safeguard their personal information.

PosteCS brings the trust, security and peace of mind that the Postal Service brand is known for to the area of global electronic communications. In addition, through PosteCS, customers will have the option of using the USPS Electronic Postmark, which provides an added layer of security to electronic documents.

Postal reform is something that will decide Japan's future: whether Japan moves forward to smaller government, leaving what we can to the private sector, or whether it goes toward bigger government.

If we're all going to count on universal service at reasonable rates, the Postal Service has to change with the times.

I don't believe that the people are naive enough to accept the prime minister's assertion that foreign affairs and other issues will be resolved if the postal services are privatized.

Basically, I enjoy working here, it's just too much responsibility for the income. They won't give Nancy a raise and I can't afford to work for the same thing forever. I do the same thing as a regular federal postal employee, and they make about triple what I do. I don't have any benefits. I have to do what's right for me.

If someone doesn't spell 'you' out in an e-mail, ... I assume the writer is in middle school. E-mail is today's form of a postal letter.

Today it's bus drivers, tomorrow it could be postal officials, and the next day, it could be, 'Why don't we have this program in place for the people who deliver the newspaper to the door? We could quickly get into a society where we're all spying on each other. It may be well intentioned, but there is a concern of going a bit too far.

We've been through some pretty major crises over the last little while. Air strikes and postal strikes, projectionists' strikes, we went through 9/11 in the middle of our festival. I think we'll roll with the punches.

Under its current business model, the Postal Service's financial future is not viable.

I think it's a great idea. Monte's always been good to us. The wall is there and Monte's always been a big part of the community. He's fattened the postal employees up with his candy for years. He's a great guy. It would be a good thing to do.

It could have been in the U.S. Postal Service for years. It could have been stuck behind a cabinet. Sometimes these are found during renovations.

I will solemnly accept the voice of the Japanese people and will be committed to realize postal privatization,

Japan faces problems of decreasing population, an aging society and increasing national debts. Mr. Koizumi sounds as if life will be all rosy if the postal service is privatized, but no one takes what he says seriously.

Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions.

Koizumi says postal privatization is the focus of the elections. Is that so? I say definitely no!

Koizumi really hasn't talked much about anything else except postal reforms,

Koizumi always says the same thing. Nearly 90 percent of his speech is about postal privatization issues. This election will decide the next three to four years of Japan's future, and important issues should be thoroughly discussed.

Some people called postal privatization an absurd idea. But the people judged that it is the right idea,

I will try to maintain the postal network, which is people's important assets, and see to it that no inconvenience will ensue,

Management has failed to take proactive measures and appears to be reacting only after anthrax-like systems appear, which creates apprehension and fear to postal workers and is detrimental to their health, welfare and safety,

We realize that a large percentage of Louisiana voters are exercising their constitutional right to vote via absentee ballots. Those ballots are being sent through the mail, and the United States Postal Service stands ready to deliver these ballots to elections officials.

We're very saddened by the whole situation. We're sad to lose a member of the postal family.

Usually when you lose your rural carrier, the post office is next. If you don't act right away, the Postal Service thinks you don't care. And the next thing you know, you're done.

We know that the postal privatization bills will now pass fairly quickly. He has this huge majority which almost gives him dictatorial power but how he wants to use it is still pretty unclear.

We have wasted an insane amount of money. Health care is being starved to keep the postal system, the roads and bridges around. In a country with a shrinking, aging population, this system is going to lower living standards.

When I first started touring, we had a crappy van, and we would all share rooms. So for many years as a grown adult woman, I would share a bed with a bandmate, whether it would be Jimmy Tamborello from the Postal Service or Pierre De Reeder from Rilo Kiley, just a pillow barrier between us sleeping on the same bed.

There is a universally recognized duty to provide a postal service that must be protected.

We asked whether the public thinks Koizumi's structural reforms symbolized by privatization of the three postal services should be pushed forward or stopped,

We believe our product offerings are complementary. We have virtually no presence in the lightweight preferred market, so we don't really compete with the postal service there,

With such a stunning result, passage of the postal reform bills is virtually assured. The next areas are medical reform, civil service reform, public sector outsourcing and government financial institution reform.

The good news is as we continue to do tests in the postal facilities and at Mrs. Lundgren's home, we're finding that there's no trace of anthrax,

We think so much of what he did was intertwined. He realized the power of writing and using the press to spread ideas, and some had to do with civic responsibility or science. The last section deals with his abiding sense that people do something good for other people. This brings in his work in creating the Pennsylvania Hospital, the University of Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia Fire Department, the postal service.

As the Postal Service has evolved, I have become increasingly concerned about its uncertain antitrust status, ... As we go forward, I believe that we must re-examine the continued viability of the Postal Service's antitrust immunity if it is to compete against private businesses.

Enactment of postal privatization bills is the top item on the agenda.

Enactment of postal privatisation bills is the top item on the agenda.

There's no doubt, if you want to be successful on the Internet, that aligning yourself with the postal service probably isn't a bad idea. We hope to play that trump card an awful lot.

Is it a federal crime? Technically, yes. These mailboxes are designed for the sole usage of the postal service to serve customers. Items such as fliers or anything outside of correspondence or other mail matters is prohibited.

I've worked in several large companies (e.g., SRI, McGraw-Hill, the United States Postal Service) and never seen anything like it. You couldn't get anything done without filling out a form. There was even a form that you had to fill out when there wasn't any regular form available.

It would be like a little post office inside the mall. This would be a new type of operation for the postal service.

Right now we are trying to get a letter sent to the Postal Service to ask them if it would be possible, and what would be involved in switching the north end of town to the same ZIP code that is used in the south end, ... Because the Postal Service is a federal agency we might get a better response if the request came from the congressman's office.

(Prime Minister Junichiro) Koizumi's Liberal Democratic Party focused on a single issue of pros and cons regarding postal privatization--and the voters' attention was diverted to it.

People are worried that in order to achieve structural reform and postal privatization, LDP politicians will be less engaged in pork barrel politics.

After working around the clock since Monday, this office, along with the Postal Inspector's office were able to develop evidence that Phillip Bennett had played an active role in hiding from the public the debt from Refco,

Address changes are pouring in and U.S. Postal Service deliverability is changing by the hour. Phone service is chaotic, at best, and nobody can predict when this situation will be stabilized. Intellidyn can perform up-to-date list suppression of telemarketing and mailing data across the nation's most comprehensive bureau, transaction, deed file, and other data quickly to remove do-not-call and currently undeliverable zip codes, helping marketers remain compliant with disaster ordinances and reduce costly undeliverables.

Some even go so far as to suggest that the time of the Postal Service has passed, that we ought to let the private sector take over.

The United States Postal Service has a problem. People aren't sending as much mail as they used to. That means less postage revenue and difficulty paying the bills.

This election serves as a national referendum on whether you are for or against the postal privatization. Unless we privatize the postal system, we cannot reform our social welfare.

At a time in our nation's history when we are using the words 'identity theft,' this report reinforces the vital, trusted role the Postal Service plays in our daily lives.

Its just a proactive approach by the Postal Service nationwide to make sure that we dont have a repeat of the tragedy that we had in October of 2001.

Everybody's eyes glaze over at the discussion of postal reform. So Koizumi is providing a three-ring circus.

The biggest issue in this election is postal privatization. It's the symbol of structural reform.

The best defense that we have right now is an educated American public and educated workforce, both the employees of the Postal Service and those who work in mailrooms,

Talks between FedEx and the postal service are progressing but no final agreement has been reached.

No longer will postal carriers need areas to manually sort and prepare the mail, which takes up a huge space in every facility. They've pulled back a little to evaluate just what kind of facilities we need.

A further delay of six months would cost the Postal Service over $2 million, at a minimum, in maintenance, interest and opportunity loss,

At the Postal Service, we understand the power our stamps have in helping to celebrate American history and culture -- in this case, the contributions of Latin American art and dance to American culture,

The judge basically was of the opinion that things were moving pretty quickly with respect to the postal facilities in New Jersey and wanted to have command of the facts,

The Internet creates as well as destroys. Social networks, search advertising, and cloud computing are multibillion dollar industries that didn't exist 10 years ago. They are products of the same force that has rendered the Postal Service's core business obsolete.

In my 33 years working with the postal service, I thought I had seen just about everything, but I've never seen or heard of anything like this happening before.

In last year's local elections in Manchester a third of those who voted did so by post. It's not just that people are choosing to get postal votes, but having one makes it much more likely that they'll vote.

In this divided system, there will not be an entity to hold accountable for the performance of the Postal Service.

If you make your voting decision based only on the postal privatization, it would mean (Koizumi) would exploit it and would say the public entrusted him with all other decisions as well.

Cafe Press doesn't offer custom postage, just for starters. There are just not many people approved by the U.S. Postal Service to make custom postage.

I believe our country is on the verge of a dramatic change, a dramatic change in how we power our cars, how we power our homes, how we power our businesses -- even our postal facilities.

Health-care reform is a huge issue. It's also a huge battle. There are big vested interests that are just as bad as contractors and postal lobbyists.

And I say that's good news because I was worried about postal employees from two different facilities and we have no one else with any symptoms. The bad news is of course that the mystery continues.

The concern is they either have on hand -- or could quickly re-create the capability to produce -- vast amounts of anthrax, tons of material, compared with the several grams of material that literally shut down the U.S. postal system last year,

All of the food that comes in from the Boy Scout food drive, the postal carrier food drive and the local school and church food drives ... goes right back out into the community. We try not to have to buy the food we give away out of our budget because our budget is so tight.

The last time I checked, the postal service has a very similar system to provide different options.