Another trend is off-site or virtual management, where teams of people linked by e-mail and the Internet work on projects from their own houses.

By tracking people's e-mails and online posts, scientists have found that good news can spread faster and farther than disasters and sob stories.

E-mails are then sent to the bookcrossing to keep them updated about where their books have been found.

Explore the monuments and memorials on the national mail as your guide shares unique facts and history at each stop.

He and a Penn colleague analyzed the \most e-mailed\ list for six months.

If a neighbor is going to be out of town, offer to collect mail and newspapers.

Mail it back to its owner.

Researchers analyzing word-of-mouth communication—e-mails, web posts and reviews, face-to-face conversations—found that it tended to be more positive than negative, but that didn't necessarily mean people preferred positive news.

Six days a week, up and down the red hills of northeast georgia, my grandfather brought the mail to the folks there.

The mail can be really slow sometimes.

Last week, for example, Postmaster General Pat Donahoe announced plans to stop mail delivery on Saturdays, a move he says could save three billion dollars annually.

I'll tell my secretary to put the paper in my mail box, and I'll get it when I return.

They are owned by individuals and by private businesses and corporations, lending institutions, direct mailing and telemarketing firms, credit bureaus, credit card companies, and government agencies at the local, state, and federal level.

According to Rae Ann Haight, the program manager for the national-preparedness office at USPS, Smith was fulfilling a request made by some of the home owners to pick up any mail that was left untouched.

After Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, mail facilities were set up in dozens of locations across the country in the two weeks that USPS was unable to provide street delivery.

After Hurricane Katrina interrupted routine delivery, temporary mail service points were set up.

After mail service stops due to weather, the agency’s top priority is ensuring that employees are safe.

As I came across a box that was up but with no house, I checked, and there was mail—outgoing mail—in it.

As soon as it's safe enough to be outside, couriers (邮递员) start distributing accumulated mail on the still-accessible routes.

But some mail can be extremely sensitive and timely.

Days after the deadly 2017 wildfires in Santa Rosa, California, a drone (无人机) caught footage (连续镜头) of a USPS worker, Trevor Smith, driving through burned homes in that familiar white van, collecting mail in an affected area.

Even the United States Postal Service (USPS) suspended mail delivery.

If the destruction is extreme, mail addressed to the area will get sent elsewhere.

In response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, USPS redirected incoming New Orleans mail to existing mail facilities in Houston.

Mail companies are logistics companies, which puts them in a special position to help when disaster strikes.

Mail delivery service is still responsible for the completion of almost half of payments.

Mail that was already processed in New Orleans facilities was moved to an upper floor so it would be protected from water damage.

Returning to a normal life can be difficult, but some small routines mail delivery being one of them may help residents remember that their communities are still their communities.

Spokespeople from both USPS and UPS told me all mail is important.

Then it evaluates the health of infrastructure, such as the roads that mail carriers drive on.

The woman would like the man to take care of her mail.

Otherwise, we can send a gift card by mail if you prefer.

The second half of the 20th century saw a collection of geniuses, warriors, entrepreneurs and visionaries labour to create a fabulous machine that could function as a typewriter and printing press, studio and theatre, paintbrush and gallery, piano and radio, the mail as well as the mail carrier.

Fundamentally, the USPS is in a historic squeeze between technological change that has permanently decreased demand for its bread-and-butter product, first-class mail, and a regulatory structure that denies management the flexibility to adjust its operations to the new reality.

Fundamentally, the USPS is in a historic squeeze between technological change that has permanently decreased demand for its bread-and-butter product, first-class mail, and a regulatory structure that denies management the flexibility to adjust its operati

The second half of the 20th century saw a collection of geniuses, warriors, entrepreneurs and visionaries labour to create a fabulous machine that could function as a typewriter and printing press, studio and theatre, paintbrush and gallery, piano and rad