"Postal service" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... here quitted their English horses, and mounted the frightful Chinese steeds which carry on the postal service. After a couple of wearisome days, occupied in clearing narrow defiles, torrents, and plains of blinding dust, they reached ...
— Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century • W. H. Davenport Adams
... of a private messenger, never through the post-office. There was good excuse for this fashion in our grandmother's day, when the post was a slow coach, or a storm-stayed postillion; but the admirable system of our postal service to-day leaves no excuse for the prejudice in favor of the private messenger; and it is not surprising that fashion has yielded to common sense in allowing that many of these cards of courtesy may, with perfect propriety, ...
— Etiquette • Agnes H. Morton
... out-ports are in telegraphic communication with either Shanghai or Hongkong, and through them with the outside world, while the postal service is conducted by means of coast and river steamers which, plying regularly with passengers and cargo, have bases in these two emporiums, so that in whatever port you reside your thoughts and your interests are daily and directly concerned with either one or the other. From them come the daily newspapers, ...
— Life and sport in China - Second Edition • Oliver G. Ready
... the telegraph and postal service. It appears that government telegraphs are being rapidly extended throughout the empire. There are lines between Pekin and Tientsin, and lines connecting the capital with the principal places in Manchuria as far as the Russian frontier on the Amour and the Usuri, while Newchwang, Chefoo, ...
— China • Demetrius Charles Boulger
... which is freighted with a proposition that affects my future life is two cents. Because of great value to me the postal service is no more than a ...
— Usury - A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View • Calvin Elliott
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