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""In America, one of the first things done in a new State is to have the mail come." -Alexis de Toqueville, 1835 Who's Got Mail? is an intriguing and fact-filled look at how the mail has been delivered in the U.S. since the Constitution was signed. In the United States, the spread of the postal service went hand in hand with the spread of democracy and transportation. As settlement spread west, communication became even more important to let distant...
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Sentai Filmworks
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日本語
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In a dark land of near-perpetual night, only a single artificial sun illuminates a single city, and communication between the rest of the world is made possible only by the Letter Bees - elite couriers who must fight against monsters known as Gaichuu in order to make their deliveries. Having been saved by a Letter Bee when his mother was kidnapped years ago, Lag Seeing has finally gained employment at the Bee Hive, but he's quickly learning that the...
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Discworld volume 30
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English
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Suddenly, condemned arch-swindler Moist von Lipwig found himself with a noose around his neck and dropping through a trapdoor into ... a government job?
By all rights, Moist should be meeting his maker rather than being offered a position as Postmaster by Lord Vetinari, supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork. Getting the moribund Postal Service up and running again, however, may prove an impossible task, what with literally mountains of decades-old undelivered...
9) Post office
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"Post Office takes emergent readers on a trip to the post office while providing them with a supportive first nonfiction reading experience. Carefully crafted text uses high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references to support emergent readers, making sure they arent facing too many challenges at once."-- from Amazon.com.
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Tundra
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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"Bianca likes sending letters. Bianca likes stamps, too, and she collects them. She likes drawing and writing and dogs and watering her plants. But she does not like Yolanda who works at the post office. Will Yolanda ruin Bianca's Five-Letter Day? Or will Bianca find a way to solve her Yolanda problem?" -- Dust jacket.
11) Penguin post
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Harcourt
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2001.
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English
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While his mother is looking for food and his father is tending their egg, a young penguin named Milo is charged with delivering the mail, not knowing that he is about to make a very special delivery.
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Horrible Harry volume 23
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English
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Harry and Doug investigate when special bookmarks begin to disappear while their class is busy studying poetry and running their own post office.
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Discworld volume 32
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English
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Postmaster General Moist von Lipwig, who runs the Ankh-Morpork Post Office, and although he is a former arch-swindler and confidence man, has exceeded all expectations. So it's somewhat disconcerting when Lord Vetinari summons Moist to the palace and asks if he would like to make some real money, he's referring, rather, to the Royal Mint of Ankh-Morpork--a new opportunity or is it?
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43 Old Cemetery Road volume 4
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Harcourt Children's Books
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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With the impending closure of the post office, the transition to the new communication system VEXT-mail is anything but smooth for the human and paranormal residents of Ghastly, Illinois. Story told mostly through letters.
15) Jour de fête
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Criterion collection volume 730
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
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[2014]
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Français
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In this, his enchanting debut feature, Jacques Tati stars as a fussbudget of a postman who is thrown for a loop when a traveling fair comes to his village.
17) Snail mail
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A long, long time ago, before email and texting, the mail was delivered in a much slower way-it was called Snail Mail (because some thought it was delivered by a snail). Although it took much longer, everyone agreed that letters were a little more special when they were delivered by Snail Mail. They might be handwritten. They might include a drawing. They might even contain a surprise inside! One such letter was sent by a Girl to the Boy she loved,...
18) Off & away
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Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Jo fears what lives in the ocean but when her father is too ill to deliver messages in bottles, she courageously takes on the job, making new friends along the way.
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Highlights Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Knox, a snail mail carrier, delivers packages with a smile--and a hilarious joke for each recipient. In this pun-filled Level 2 Highlights Puzzle Reader, readers must solve six mazes to help Knox deliver the mail on time for the Mail Day Parade. With bonus knock-knock jokes, Knox Knocks: Hooray for Mail Day! is perfect for beginning readers."-- Amazon.
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Highlights Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Knox, a snail mail carrier, delivers packages with a smile--and a hilarious joke for each recipient. In this pun-filled Level 2 Highlights Puzzle Reader, readers must solve six mazes to help Knox deliver the mail with time to spare so he can celebrate his birthday. With bonus knock-knock jokes, Knox Knocks: Special Delivery is perfect for beginning readers."-- Amazon.
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