Arguments were made from the conference floor against the government's proposals partially to privatise the Post Office and air-traffic control.

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This means that if you use your iPad to listen to a Jeff Daniels interview on NPR's Fresh Air, pause it and then want to restart it later while standing in line at the post office with your Android smartphone, "Fresh Air" will play from exactly where you left off on the iPad.

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It uses the post office to send clothes by air to the farthest-flung corners of the vast, icy, sparsely populated country.

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