POSTAL SYSTEM

(See also Letters; Pony Express; Zip Codes)

advertising on stamps: g72 3/8 29

Britain: g78 2/8 30

chain letters: g70 6/8 19

China: g76 4/22 31

Colombia: g69 6/8 25-26

experience in delivering literature in Yugoslavia: yb68 267

Germany, Federal Republic of (West): g66 4/8 9-10; g61 2/8 30

survey regarding its workers: g77 7/22 30-31

Greece: g78 7/8 30

appeal to Athenians to avoid dropping personal items in mailboxes: g81 5/22 30

history: g71 7/8 20-21; g70 11/8 9-10; g63 3/8 24-25

Italy: g68 5/22 31

laundering and reselling of stamps: g85 10/8 30

mailboxes:

use: g81 10/22 30; km 5/81 8; g75 10/22 30

mail carriers:

attacked by wolves: g77 4/22 29

bitten by dogs: g79 5/8 30

Herodotus’ comment about: g77 4/22 29

mail fraud: g68 1/22 30; g67 9/22 18

stamps:

bearing flags: w77 63-64

collecting: g71 7/8 20-23

rare: g71 7/8 23; g68 12/8 31

thefts: g70 8/8 31

United States: g76 10/8 30; g70 7/8 5-7; g69 10/22 30; g68 5/22 15; g66 4/8 9-11; g64 4/8 16, 24, 29; g63 2/22 29; g62 10/22 29; g58 2/8 21-24; g58 2/22 13-15; g54 2/22 13-15; g44 9/27 22-23; g43 9/15 5-7; g32 1/20 227-235

elimination of postal subsidy for nonprofit publications: g82 5/8 30

law against placing unstamped material in private mailboxes upheld: g81 10/22 30

mail carriers’ use of umbrellas to protect themselves from dogs: g82 4/22 31

pony express revived temporarily: g83 7/22 29-30

pony express said to be faster: g76 10/22 31

transmission of messages by electronic impulses: g79 2/22 26

Universal Postal Union: g70 11/8 10-12