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  • Hey, if you can afford the plane ticket to Tulsa, you can parcel-post your Jockey shorts.

    Free Air Travel Advice from Annie Anne Johnson 2007

  • Hey, if you can afford the plane ticket to Tulsa, you can parcel-post your Jockey shorts.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Anne Johnson 2007

  • Like the stamp of “priority mail” or “first class” on a parcel-post package, labels are what people use to categorize you for easy handling.

    Reposition Yourself T.D. Jakes 2007

  • Wraps, inspects, weighs, and affixes postage to parcel-post packages and records C.O.D. and insurance information.

    Discover What You’re Best At Linda Gale 1998

  • What we do when we send the motor truck through the rural centers is to push the rural free-delivery and the parcel-post service just one step forward.

    Address by Honorable William C. Redfield, Secretary of Commerce at Conference of Regional Chairmen of the Highway Transport Committee Council of National Defense United States. Council of National Defense. Highway Transport Committee

  • This seemed a very simple arrangement, but it did not work satisfactorily, as railways were few and there was no parcel-post in those days, and then we were always so far from our base that we were obliged to fix ourselves to call at places we did not particularly want to see and to miss others that we would much rather have visited.

    From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

  • The number of the peg corresponded to a numbered tag which was handed out to be redeemed at the parcel-post window near the aërial mail plane.

    School, Church, and Home Games George Orrin Draper

  • There is a parcel-post as well as a letter penny-post in Paris.

    A Trip to Paris in July and August 1792 Richard Twiss

  • Unless this is done our merchants and railroads will find themselves deprived of this large parcel-post business after the 1st of next March, the date of the expiration of the convention, which has been extended upon the specific understanding that it would expire at that time unless this legislation was enacted.

    State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.

  • We have a temporary parcel-post convention with Cuba.

    State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.

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