Podcasts about postal system

Episode: 2117 The Internet of Tubes: In which a gaffe evokes the history of communication.  Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd and the Internet of Tubes.

On this day in 1840, the introduction of the Penny Black postage stamp revolutionized the British postal system. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jeremy Presar is a mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service based out of the French Creek, West Virginia Post Office. Now in his sixth year as a mail carrier, he tells folklorist Emily Hilliard about his 70-mile route, delivering to 600 mailboxes, the challenges posed by animals, weather and being bi-racial in a largely White area as well as the pride he takes in working for America's “vital lifeline.”

In the first hour, Kevin Ellis is joined by UVM Assistant Professor of African American History Dr. Pamela Walker. They discuss her upcoming book: Signed, Sealed, Delivered: How Black and White Mothers used the Box Project and the Postal System to Fight Hunger and Feed the Mississippi Freedom Movement, the Civil Rights Movement, and Black History Month.

Across this fractured region, informal networks rule. So if you need to send something, ask someone who's already going that way. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

It has been reported that the Irish postal system is now a major route for illegal and fake prescription drugs coming into the country, as social media and websites are used to buy painkillers, sedatives, and other medications But what effect is this having on those who are ordering such items? Speaking to Jonathan this morning was Colin O'Gara Consultant Psychiatrist and Head of Addiction Services at St John of God Hospital.

On this day in 1775, the U.S. postal system was established by the Second Continental Congress.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Warnings New Zealand still needs a strong mailing system. NZ Post is proposing cutting 750 jobs over the next five years, from its workforce of 4500. It expects volumes of post to almost halve by 2028. Postal Workers Union National President John Maynard says physical mail is alive and well in rural areas. "They've got 16,000 people that they regularly mail out to, and they want to continue doing that. There's also some people who might be a bit suspicious of the hacking into their internet, it would be good to have some backup system." LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mel Lamprey joins Zane on by the fire to talk about marriage, the U.S. Postal System, and the real reason she keeps cat testicles in the fridge. They discuss marriage tips, and Mel reveals the list of chores Zane refuses to do. Enjoy! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/zanelamprey/support

Many challenges confronting today's Postal Service would not be foreign to early postal officials -- high partisanship, operational difficulties, and financial stress . In preparation for July 4, during this week's episode of NAPS Chat, Prof. Joseph Adelman of Framingham State University joins Bob Levi to discuss crucial postal decisions made by American patriots, including choices made by delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention, President George Washington and the 2nd U.S. Congress. These decisions resulted in the development of our postal system. Prof. Adelman is currently working on an epic history of the Postal Service.

When Donald Trump declared he would fix the US Postal Service, he was using the word “fix” the same way veterinarians do when you bring in your dog. Trump wasted an inordinate amount of his presidential power and prestige in a failed attempt to neuter an agency that literally delivers for the people. Extraordinary postal workers move our letters and packages by truck, car, airplane, boat, motorbike, mule – and, of course, by foot – to any address across town or across the country. Both essential and effective, it's the most popular federal agency, with 91 percent of the public approving its work. Thus, an uproar of protests killed Trump's attempt to gut it. When it comes to bad public policy, however, failure is just a way of saying, Let's try the back door. Trump was defeated, but he left behind an undistinguished Postmaster General named Louis DeJoy, who had only two qualifications for the job: He was a Trump mega-donor, and he was a peer of corporate powers that've long wanted to privatize the Postal Service. In March, before the new Biden presidency had taken charge of the postal system, DeJoy popped through the back door with his own “10-year-plan” to fix the agency. Rhetorically, his plan promised to “achieve service excellence” by making mail delivery more “consistent” and “reliable.” How? By consistently cutting service and reliably gouging customers. Specifically, DeJoy proposed to close numerous mail processing facilities, eliminate jobs, reduce Post Office hours of service, and cut the standard of delivering our first-class mail from three days to five. Oh, also: Raise stamp prices. Delivering lousy service at higher prices is intended to destroy public support for the agency, opening up the mail service to takeover by private profiteers. That's the real DeJoy plan. And who gets joy from that?

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When Donald Trump declared he would fix the US Postal Service, he was using the word “fix” the same way veterinarians do when you bring in your dog. Trump wasted an inordinate amount of his presidential power and prestige in a failed attempt to neuter an agency that literally delivers for the people. Extraordinary postal workers move our letters and packages by truck, car, airplane, boat, motorbike, mule – and, of course, by foot – to any address across town or across the country. Both essential and effective, it’s the most popular federal agency, with 91 percent of the public approving its work. Thus, an uproar of protests killed Trump’s attempt to gut it. When it comes to bad public policy, however, failure is just a way of saying, Let’s try the back door. Trump was defeated, but he left behind an undistinguished Postmaster General named Louis DeJoy, who had only two qualifications for the job: He was a Trump mega-donor, and he was a peer of corporate powers that’ve long wanted to privatize the Postal Service. In March, before the new Biden presidency had taken charge of the postal system, DeJoy popped through the back door with his own “10-year-plan” to fix the agency. Rhetorically, his plan promised to “achieve service excellence” by making mail delivery more “consistent” and “reliable.” How? By consistently cutting service and reliably gouging customers. Specifically, DeJoy proposed to close numerous mail processing facilities, eliminate jobs, reduce Post Office hours of service, and cut the standard of delivering our first-class mail from three days to five. Oh, also: Raise stamp prices. Delivering lousy service at higher prices is intended to destroy public support for the agency, opening up the mail service to takeover by private profiteers. That’s the real DeJoy plan. And who gets joy from that?

WIOD National Correspondent Rory O'Neill *Follow him on Twitter: @RadioRory (the Postmaster is announcing massive changes in how the Postal System operates

The Oyster Pirates of the Chesapeake Bay contend with the Toe Nail Governor and his mission to protect the oysters from extinction. A few years later, a new Food Fight erupts in middle America. This one is about Limburger Cheese and the Postal System. It ends with a stinky sniffing duel. Music, writing, and production by Mick Sullivan "Sweet Dreams" by Squeeze-bot

In episode 32 of The HR Famous Podcast, long-time HR leaders (and friends) Tim Sackett, Kris Dunn and Jessica Lee come together to discuss crazy overtime pay at the USPS and harassment issues via messaging on LinkedIn.  Listen (click this link if you don’t see the player) and be sure to subscribe, rate, and review (Apple Podcasts) and follow (Spotify)! SHOW HIGHLIGHTS Listen below and be sure to subscribe, rate, and review (iTunes) and follow (Spotify)! 1:45 - We got an HR Famous boys trip coming up! Tim is heading down to Alabama to visit KD for a good ole trip with the boys. 3:50 - First topic of the day: It has come out recently that 4,000 USPS employees made more money in overtime than their base pay. The crew plays a game to guess what the average North East mail handler makes. How much do you think they make? 6:00 - KD breaks down the talking points for various stakeholders to explain runaway OT.  7:45 - Tim points out that it would be clear to most business people that the amount of overtime the USPS is paying is out of hand and requires hiring of more employees.  9:30 - Tim mentions the stats behind the overtime hours for the average North East mail handler and how there might be some fraud in hours reporting.  10:30 - JLee discusses a podcast she listened to about the UPS and how they analyzed a ton of different data points for their delivery drivers and how some of that data monitoring could help with efficiency at the USPS.  KD points out that criticism of the OT won't be pitched during the election due to party affiliation of unions. 13:00 - Second topic of the day: creepy dudes on LinkedIn! Friend of the show, Laurie Ruetimann, often posts about her interactions with being hit on by men on LinkedIn. Tim did a Twitter poll asking his female followers if they’ve had similar interactions. Many respondents said that they’ve been hit on but not propositioned for sex. However, many thought that if they engaged, it would have moved to that step.  16:00 - Tim is surprised this is still an issue in 2020. He discusses a statement from LinkedIn in January to help fight against harassment on their platform. LinkedIn took down 16,000 instances of harassment in the first 6 months of 2019.  KD points out in a world where LinkedIn provides AI to tell us how we want to respond to a message, they can probably stop harassment-based messaged and the accounts that send them. 19:45 - Listener of the show, Cindy Gallop, wrote into Tim and mentioned she has logged 14 male harassment issues from LinkedIn. She gave Tim some of her suggestions to help fight harassment on the platform.  23:00 - KD asks for an example of a type of message that is perceived as being “hit on”. JLee gives some examples such as commenting on physical looks and certain flirtatious emojis. 27:00  - Tim thinks LinkedIn can do more from a tech perspective but notes some of the issues from just taking down profiles as the top strategy to combat this harassment.  28:45 - The HR Famous crew tells men to stop being creepy on LinkedIn!

This is the full 8-30-2020 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express Radio, postal workers speak out against attacks on the postal system by the Trump administration. This is not just an election issue, this is a privatization issue and an attack on unions. And in the second half of the program, Erek Slater fights a political firing by the Chicago Transit Authority for the second time in his 14 years as a Chicago bus driver. The CTA fired Erek once again for carrying out his union duties. Erek relates his fight and the struggles of public sector workers to the current nationwide rebellion of black and brown working people for racial and economic justice. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English language labor news and current affairs radio program. News for working people, by working people. Labor Express Radio airs every Sunday at 8:00 PM on WLPN in Chicago, 105.5 FM. For more information, see our Facebook page... laborexpress.org and our homepage on Archive.org at: http://www.archive.org/details/LaborExpressRadio Labor Express is a member of the Labor Radio / Podcast Network, Working People's Voices – Broadcasting Worldwide 24 Hours A Day. laborradionetwork.org #laborradionetwork

USPS can be preserved as a public trust and still save money: Two C's of Logistics: Capacity and Customer Convenience Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ancient Egyptians developed a postal service that dates back to 2000 BC. The oldest postal system in the world. Ben Franklin first Postmaster General. Henry W McGee,first Black Postmaster in Chicago. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/undergroundchicagotalk/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/undergroundchicagotalk/support

The U.S. Postal Service itself has warned states it cannot guarantee that all ballots cast by mail for the Nov. 3 election will arrive in time to be counted, even if ballots are mailed by state deadlines. That is raising the possibility that millions of voters could be disenfranchised.It's the latest chaotic development involving the agency, which has found itself in the middle of a high-stakes election year debate over who gets to vote in America, and how. These questions are extremely important in the middle of the Coronavirus pandemic.

This week we have John Bova on, the owner of the Black Rose Tavern. He shares with us the dubious effort of adapting to the imprecise gubernatorial orders of phase two reopening. George and Chris remove politics and expose the "real" circumstances surrounding our postal system fiscal problems. 2meninashedtotallyuncensored@gmail.com Wrath by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Banjos, Unite! by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/george-smith07/message

Abby and Casey give listeners an overview of some of the hottest news topics in the media today. They talk about the selection of Kamala Harris as the VP democratic nominee, the restructuring of the U.S. Postal System and how it will affect voting this November, the explosion in Beirut, and give updates on the Black Lives Matter Movement and coronavirus cases in the US. Resources: To Sign: Petition for Congress to fully fund the USPS in its next stimulus bill To Stay up to date: OZY Daily Briefing Newsletter: Quick and digestible news to your inbox C-SPAN: for nonpartisan political media coverage To Donate: Bustle: Where to Donate to Help Beirut References: On Portland... https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/26/us/portland-protest-history-federal-police/index.html https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/09/portland-protesters-clash-police-building-fire On the U.S. Postal System... https://www.npr.org/2020/08/07/900126106/postmaster-general-touts-usps-overhaul-but-promises-on-time-election-mail On the Beirut Explosion... https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/world/middleeast/beirut-explosion-blast.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/after-beiruts-ruinous-explosion-a-family-waits-for-a-call-that-never-comes/2020/08/13/8b15f1e4-db25-11ea-b4f1-25b762cdbbf4_story.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/world/middleeast/beirut-lebanon-explosion.html On TikTok... https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/07/technology/trump-tiktok-wechat.html?searchResultPosition=2 https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-ban-us-national-security-risk/ https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/13/tech/tiktok-ban-trump-india/index.html https://www.theverge.com/21322612/tiktok-security-china-bytedance-spying-app-privacy On Covid... NYT's Covid News Page On Schools Reopening During Covid... https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/schools-childcare/reopening-schools.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/11/children-schools-coronavirus-leana-wen/ https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/children/mis-c.html

FOX Nation host Abby Hornacek takes a closer look at the topics and buzz words you find your friends and coworkers using to sound intelligent. Each week Abby and her expert guests will tackle topics we take for granted and help to explain the roots and meanings behind them. This week, Daniel A. Piazza, Chief Curator at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum, joins Abby in the classroom to help with her lesson plan. Daniel discusses the history of the United States Postal System, the role the system has had in the larger development of the United States, how the system operates today, and how USPS differentiates itself from other mail delivery services. Keep up with Abby after class on Twitter: @AbbyHornacek

The U.S. postal or mail system, the purse strings of which are controlled by Congress, has been running at a deficit for years, calling into question its financial viability. Yet, as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the system has taken on greater importance for Americans. In addition, as we look to the 2020 presidential election, its necessity for mail-in voting has erupted into a partisan battle.   Richard John, a historian at Columbia University’s School of Journalism, joins Julian Zelizer and Sam Wang to talk about the U.S. postal system’s role as a key part of America’s infrastructure and the new reality of the challenges it faces.  With expertise in the history of communications, John teaches and advises Ph.D. students and is a member of Columbia’s history department. He is the author of “Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse,” which received the Allan Nevins Prize from the Society of American Historians and the Herman E. Krooss Prize from the Business History, and “Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications,” which won the first Ralph Gomory Book Prize from the Business History Conference and was the 2010 Best Book in Journalism and Mass Communication History.

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This week, Susan and Laura share some recent sparks of creativity that have inspired them while the world is upside down. First, an ode to the beauty of handwritten letters and the USPS for delivering them, plus, ideas for making a day at home special and meaningful, including the joy of kittens on a blanket.

You can't tell it's a penis until you get closer to it. Valor Ant and the Mites of the Round Table. My Ex-Girlfriend, Flugelhorn. Disappointing Boobs. Peach is a Unisex Butt. Valor, Instinct, Flebulon. I Don't Watch the Nudes. Thou Shalt Not Remove the Postal System from Its Moorings. SickDickPics. Oh Wait those are weiners on your face. April Is Blank. He's somewhere in the Farties. TUBA: the Big-Ass Brass. A Rental Mental. Tom's Tech Time! Reccomentals and more on this episode of The Morning Stream.

You can't tell it's a penis until you get closer to it. Valor Ant and the Mites of the Round Table. My Ex-Girlfriend, Flugelhorn. Disappointing Boobs. Peach is a Unisex Butt. Valor, Instinct, Flebulon. I Don't Watch the Nudes. Thou Shalt Not Remove the Postal System from Its Moorings. SickDickPics. Oh Wait those are weiners on your face. April Is Blank. He's somewhere in the Farties. TUBA: the Big-Ass Brass. A Rental Mental. Tom's Tech Time! Reccomentals and more on this episode of The Morning Stream.

This episode opens on one of the villains of 9/11, hijacker WALEED AL-SHEHRI. How did this guy learn terror? Why he went to an AFGHAN TRAINING CAMP and you know Afghanistan is right next to PAKISTAN. And then we’re off to the first PERSIAN ACHAEMENID EMPIRE which had its own POSTAL SYSTEM, where riders would deliver mail by riding the royal road! And what grand emperor built this grand empire? CYRUS THE GREAT! And how do we know so much about Cyrus? THE CYRUS CYLINDER on which is written Cyrus’s history. And from the beginning of great empires we go the end with the LAST SHAH OF IRAN. Another episode full of history, intrigue and drama. Get with it, Freakz! Follow Jill Weiner on IG and Twitter @jill_lives www.jilllives.com Follow Connor Creagan on IG and Twitter @connorcreagan www.connorcreagan.info Follow WikiFreakz IG and Twitter @wikifreakzz

One of the earliest computing devices was the abacus. This number crunching device can first be found in use by Sumerians, circa 2700BC. The abacus can be found throughout Asia, the Middle East, and India throughout ancient history. Don't worry, the rate of innovation always speeds up as multiple technologies can be combined. Leonardo da Vinci sketched out the first known plans for a calculator. But it was the 17th century, or the Early modern period in Europe, that gave us the Scientific Revolution. Names like Kepler, Leibniz, Boyle, Newton, and Hook brought us calculus, telescopes, microscopes, and even electricity. The term computer is first found in 1613, describing a person that did computations. Wilhelm Schickard built the first calculator in 1623, which he described in a letter to Kepler. Opening the minds of humanity caused people like Blaise Pascal to theorize about vacuums and he then did something very special: he built a mechanical calculator that could add and subtract numbers, do multiplication, and even division. And more important than building a prototype, he sold a few! His programming language was a lantern gear. It took him 50 prototypes and many years, but he presented the calculator in 1645, earning him a royal privilege in France for calculators. That's feudal French for a patent. Leibniz added repetition to the mechanical calculator in his Step Reckoner. And he was a huge proponent of binary, although he didn't use it in his mechanical calculator. Binary would become even more important later, when electronics came to computers. But as with many great innovations it took awhile to percolate. In many ways, the age of enlightenment was taking the theories from the previous century and building on them. The early industrial revolution though, was about automation. And so the mechanical calculator was finally ready for daily use in 1820 when another Frenchman, Colmar, built the arithmometer, based on Leibniz's design. A few years earlier, another innovation had occurred: memory. Memory came in the form of punchcards, an innovation that would go on to last until World War II. The Jacquard loom was used to weave textiles. The punch cards controlled how rods moved and thus were the basis of the pattern of the weave. Punching cards was an early form of programming. You recorded a set of instructions onto a card and the loom performed them. The bash programming of today is similar. Charles Babbage expanded on the ideas of Pascal and Leibniz and added to mechanical computing, making the difference engine, the inspiration of many a steampunk. Babbage had multiple engineers building components for the engine and after he scrapped his first, he moved on to the analytical engine, adding conditional branching, loops, and memory - and further complicating the machine. The engine borrowed the punchcard tech from the Jacquard loom and applied that same logic to math. Ada Lovelace contributed the concept of Bernoulli numbers in algorithms giving us a glimpse into what an open source collaboration might some day look like. And she was in many ways the first programmer - and daughter of Lord Byron and Anne Millbanke, a math whiz. She became fascinated with the engine and ended up becoming an expert at creating a set of instructions to punch on cards, thus the first programmer of the analytical engine and far before her time. In fact, there would be no programmer for 100 years with her depth of understanding. Not to make you feel inadequate, but she was 27 in 1843. The engine was a bit too advanced for its time. While Babbage is credited as the father of computing because of his ideas, shipping is a feature. Having said that, it has been proven that if the build had been completed to specifications the device would have worked. Sometimes the best of plans just can't be operationalized unless you reduce scope. Babbage added scope. Despite having troubles keeping contractors who could build complex machinery, Babbage first looked to tree rings to predict weather and he was a mathematician who worked with keys and ciphers. As with Isaac Newton 150 years earlier, the British government also allowed a great scientist/engineer to reform a political institution: the Postal System. You see, he was also an early proponent of applying the scientific method to the management and administration of governmental, commercial, and industrial processes. He also got one of the first government grants in R&D to help build the difference engine, although ended up putting some of his own money in there as well, of course. Babbage died in 1871 and thus ended computing. For a bit. The typewriter came in 1874, as parts kept getting smaller and people kept tinkerating with ideas to automate all the things. Herman Hollerith filed for a patent in 1884 to use a machine to punch and count punched cars. He used that first in health care management and then in the 1890 census. He later formed Tabulating Machine Company, in 1896. In the meantime, Julius E. Pitrap patented a computing scale in 1885. William S Burroughs (not that one, the other one) formed the American Arithmometer Company in 1886. Sales exploded for these and they merged, creating the Computing-Tabulation-Recording Company. Thomas J Watson, Sr joined the company as president in 1914 and expanded business, especially outside of the United States. The name of the company was changed to International Business Machines, or IBM for short, in 1924. Konrad Zuse built the first electric computer from 1936 to 1938 in his parent's living room. It was called the Z1. OK, so electric is a stretch, how about electromechanical… In 1936 Alan Turing proposed the Turing machine, which printed symbols on tape that simulated a human following a set of instructions. Maybe he accidentally found one of Ada Lovelace's old papers. The first truly programmable electric computer came in 1943, with Colossus, built by Tommy flowers to break German codes. The first truly digital computer came from Professor John Vincent Atanasoff and his grad student Cliff Berry from Iowa State University. The ABC, or Atanasoff-Berry Computer took from 1937 to 1942 to build and was the first to add vacuum tubes. The ENIAC came from J Presper Eckert and John Mauchly from the University of Pennsylvania from 1943 to 1946. 1,800 square feet and ten times that many vacuum tubes, ENIAC weighed 50 tons. ENIAC is considered to be the first digital computer because unlike the ABC it was fully functional. The Small-Scale Experimental Machine from Frederic Williams and Tom Kilburn from the University of Manchester came in 1948 and added the ability to store and execute a program. That program was run by Tom Kilburn on June 21st, 1948. Up to this point, the computer devices were being built in universities, with the exception of the Z1. But in 1950, Konrad Zuse sold the Z4, thus creating the commercial computer industry. IBM got into the business of selling computers in 1952 as well, basically outright owning the market until grunge killed the suit in the 90s. MIT added RAM in 1955 and then transistors in 1956. The PDP-1 was released in 1960 from Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). This was the first minicomputer. My first computer was a DEC. Pier Giorgio Perotto introduced the first desktop computer, the Programmer 101 in 1964. HP began to sell the HP 9100A in 1968. All of this steam led to the first microprocessor, the Intel 4004, to be released in 1971. The first truly personal computer was released in 1975 by Ed Roberts, who was the first to call it that. It was the Altair 8800. The IBM 5100 was the first portable computer, released the same year. I guess it's portable if 55 pounds is considered portable. And the end of ancient history came the next year, when the Apple I was developed by Steve Wozniak, which I've always considered as the date that the modern era of computing be.

Celebrated writers read from their works, followed by a moderated panel examining how their faith influences and intersects the inspiration, process, and products of their imaginations. The panel includes:Poet GC Waldrep, Professor of English at Bucknell University, whose new book Feast Gently, was just released by Tupelo Press. GC is the acting director of the Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell, and editor of West Branch magazine. Poet and fiction writer Rachel Jamison Webster, Director of the Creative Writing Program at Northwestern University, whose new book Mary is a River, is out now and (among many other things) considers and creates using the voice of Mary Magdalene. Novelist and essayist Allison Grace Myers, who currently teaches at Texas State University, is working on her first novel. Her essay "Perfume Poured Out," was published by Image Journal, and was honorable mention for the 2017 Best American Essays anthology. Poet, professor and scholar Sr. Eva Hooker, CSC, Professor of English and Writer in Residence at Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana. Her most recent book of poetry, Godwit, has been described as pastoral, startling and luminous.Moderator Matthew Minicucci, Adjunct Instructor for the UP English Department.Co-sponsored by the Garaventa Center, UP Dept of English, Schoenfeldt Distinguished Writers Series and Portland Magazine. 

Welcome to Stamp Show Here Today Episode #198 - Today we are discussing the elections of President Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, who were elected on the same date one year apart. We also discuss online modern companies and startups going back to using the postal system for advertising. Scott and Tom will be at Chicagopex next week and there will most likely not be a show then. Enjoy.

How do you transform customer experience within the postal service - an industry that affects the whole nation? In this episode, Christine Corbett, a hybrid CCO of Australia Post, shares how she's using her background in operations and communications to unite the organization and reinvent the Australia Post customer and employee experience. Find more information and get the show notes at customerbliss.com/cb85

Arthur Herman, Jim Campbell, John Walters, and John Hudak discuss an upcoming Hudson report on the broken international postal package system.

Arthur Herman, Jim Campbell, John Walters, and John Hudak discuss an upcoming Hudson report on the broken international postal package system.

Patricia Maclachlan‘s recent book The People’s Post Office: The History and Politics of the Japanese Postal System, 1871-2010 (Harvard University Asia Center, 2011) is a fascinating political and institutional history of the postal system in modern Japan. Over the course of a story that takes us through the development of road and rail and into elections and workers’ unions, Maclachlan introduces us to an institution responsible for far more than simply delivering the mail, incorporating health consultation, filling prescriptions, helping the elderly and infirm deposit money into accounts, and providing life insurance at various points in its history. We follow postal workers through the ups and downs of their careers, through earthquakes and elections, watching as they develop a powerful influence in Japanese policymaking and navigate the crossroads of tradition and modernity. Many readers (myself included) will be surprised to find that the postal system in Japan has deep political roots, let alone a history that has been so central to helping shape the electoral system of modern Japan. The People’s Post Office will enrich the way its readers understand the politics of Japan of today, and it was a pleasure to talk with Patti about it. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rob de la Cretaz, and Michael Sorg and Tony â??Chachiâ?? Walker are talking Awesome as they pontificate on the death of our Postal System, the potential of an Amazon Tablet runnng Android, the road bumps in the AT&T/T-Mobile merger, how you get your games, and how many times, weird iPhone 5 stories, and more! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both video and audio formats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime in with news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

Rob de la Cretaz, and Michael Sorg and Tony “Chachi” Walker are talking Awesome as they pontificate on the death of our Postal System, the potential of an Amazon Tablet runnng Android, the road bumps in the AT&T/T-Mobile merger, how you get your games, and how many times, weird iPhone 5 stories, and more! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both video and audio formats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime in with news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

Pages 56-57 in the text, as narrated by Floy Lilley. From Part 1 of Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV: "The War Begins."

Before he became a patriot and founding father, Benjamin Franklin was a businessman. In this audio series "This Month in the Life of Benjamin Franklin," Dr. Blaine McCormick takes a closer look at Benjamin Franklin's business years offering insight and motivation for today's business leaders. In this segment for early August, McCormick discusses how Franklin ensured the success of the postal system as well as evidence that if Franklin was alive today, he may have contributed to the Octomom and Jon & Kate Plus 8 fires.