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Dalla posta dei re alla posta di tutti : territorio e comunicazioni in Italia dal XVI secolo all'Unità
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ISBN: 8820479737 Year: 1993 Publisher: Milano : F. Angeli,

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Study on the impact of liberalization of inward cross-border mail on the provision of the universal postal service and the options for progressive liberalization : final report

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L'évolution du système postal : la province chinoise du Yunnan à l'époque Ging (1644-1911)
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ISBN: 2857570384 Year: 1986 Volume: vol 18


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Comme une lettre à la poste : les progrès de l'écriture personnelle sous Louis XIV
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ISBN: 2213628351 9782213628356 Year: 2006


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The economics of the postal and delivery sector : business strategies for an essential service
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ISBN: 3030826910 3030826929 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Springer,


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Success through strategy, training and new working methods : the example of Moscow international post office


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Across the oceans : development of overseas business information transmission 1815-1875
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ISBN: 9522228095 9522228087 9517469047 9789522228093 9789522228086 9789517469043 Year: 2007 Publisher: Helsinki: Finnish literature society,

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"In the early 19th century, the only way to transmit information was to send letters across the oceans by sailing ships or across land by horse and coach. Growing world trade created a need and technological development introduced options to improve general information transmission. Starting in the 1830s, a network of steamships, railways, canals and telegraphs was gradually built to connect different parts of the world. The book explains how the rate of information circulation increased many times over as mail systems were developed. Nevertheless, regional differences were huge. While improvements on the most significant trade routes between Europe, the Americas and East India were considered crucial, distant places such as California or Australia had to wait for gold fever to become important enough for regular communications. The growth of passenger services, especially for emigrants, was a major factor increasing the number of mail sailings. The study covers the period from the Napoleonic wars to the foundation of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) and includes the development of overseas business information transmission from the days of sailing ships to steamers and the telegraph."


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The role of the United States Postal Service in public safety and security : implications of relaxing the mailbox monopoly
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ISBN: 1282033336 9786612033339 0833046608 0833046152 9780833046604 9781282033337 9780833046154 Year: 2008 Publisher: Santa Monica : RAND Corporation,

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The United States Postal Service has a statutory monopoly to deliver mail to mailboxes, but there are arguments to relax that monopoly. This study assesses the public safety concerns of doing so and makes recommendations to address these concerns.

Postal systems in the pre-modern Islamic world
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ISBN: 9780521147613 9780521858687 0521858682 9780511497520 0511289693 9780511289699 9780511290299 0511290292 0511289057 9780511289057 0511497520 0521147611 1107177359 1280917105 9786610917105 0511322283 0511288379 Year: 2007 Publisher: Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press,

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"Adam Silverstein's book offers an account of the official methods of communication employed in the Near East from pre-Islamic times through the Mamluk period. Postal systems were set up by rulers in order to maintain control over vast tracts of land. These systems, invented centuries before steam-engines or cars, enabled the swift circulation of different commodities - from letters, people and horses to exotic fruits and ice. As the correspondence transported often included confidential reports from a ruler's provinces, such postal systems doubled as espionage-networks through which news reached the central authorities quickly enough to allow a timely reaction to events. The book sheds light not only on the role of communications technology in Islamic history, but also on how nomadic culture contributed to empire-building in the Near East. This is a contribution to the history of pre-modern communications systems in the Near Eastern world."

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