The revenues generated go to funding the Postal Service only, not the U.S. government at large.

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It turns out that a lot of folks after leaving the military go to work for the postal service.

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The postal service still has miles to go before becoming Amazon's courier of choice.

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That's what O'Reilly, the former soigneur -- part masseuse, part go-fer for the U.S. Postal Service cycling team -- says Armstrong called her when she went public with accusations against him.

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The government printing offices will go later this year, and the state-owned postal and railway services are next in line.

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"'On demand' postal voting is so difficult to control that I might go so far as suggesting that we should revert to the pre-2001 regulations if we cannot find a way of preserving the integrity of the process for the individual voter, " said Sir Albert.

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