Postal Service Quotes

• But the fact is, Mr. Chairman, for all the challenges the Postal Service of the 21st century faces, it still retains its traditional place as a key cog in how American businesses conduct their affairs and how Americans all across this land communicate.

  John M. McHugh

  Keys, Land, Challenges

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• More than an actor, I am a performer... I'm a great believer - honestly so, shamelessly so, vulgarly so - that cinema is for entertainment. If you want to send messages, there's the postal service.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Cinema, Actors, Want

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• Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service]

  Herodotus

  Rain, Night, Snow

  Herodotus (2008). “The Histories”, p.718, OUP Oxford

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• The ghastly thing about postal strikes is that after they are over, the service returns to normal.

  Richard J. Needham

  Normal, Return, Strikes

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• The Postal Service delivers mail six days a week to nearly 140 million addresses. Every year this number increases by 2 million.

  Joe Baca

  Years, Numbers, Addresses

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• I know why the caged bird sings.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Children, Book

  Title of book (1969), taken from the last line of "Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar in Lyrics of Hearthside (1899). Cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 567:10

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• The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital part of the nation's infrastructure.

  Joe Baca

  Business, America, Six

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• Americans have an expectation that the Postal Service will abide by its well-known, although unofficial, motto - a commitment to deliver.

  John M. McHugh

  Commitment, Expectations, Well Known

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• The United States Postal Service is the world's most efficient postal system.

  Diane Watson

  Usa, United States, World

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• As a result of the digital age and the decline of first-class mail, there is no question that the Postal Service must change and develop a new business model.

  Bernie Sanders

  Class, Age, Mail

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Postal Service is a vitally important institution for the American people. It must be saved.

  Bernie Sanders

  People, Important, Institutions

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Theres some kind of dark symbiosis between lunatics and the Postal Service.

  Don Novello

  Dark, Symbiosis, Kind

  "Don Novello's a man of many words, whether he's Father Guido Sarducci, scribbler Lazlo Toth, or even a political candidate" by Heidi Benson, www.sfgate.com. September 18, 2003.

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• Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions.

  Henry Rollins

  Two, Perfect, Jazz

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• I had an uncle who was a postal official at the Polish post office in Gdansk. He was one of the defenders of the Polish postal service and, after it capitulated, was shot by the Germans under the provisions of martial law. Suddenly he was no longer a member of the family, and we were no longer allowed to play with his children.

  Gunter Grass

  Uncles, Children, Law

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• The second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won't.

  Ben Gibbard

  Rocks, Indie Rock, Chinese

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• The federal government spends millions to run the Postal Service. I could lose your mail for half of that.

  Pat Paulsen

  Running, Government, Half

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• I'm always mystified by the day-to-day workings of entities like Twitter that provide framework but not content, but I suppose it could be compared to the U.S. Postal Service, which manages to keep a lot of people employed doing lots of stuff other than writing letters.

  Susan Orlean

  Writing, People, Letters

  "Good Fortune" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. March 20, 2011.

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• There are major efforts being made to dismantle Social Security, the public schools, the post office - anything that benefits the population has to be dismantled. Efforts against the U.S. Postal Service are particularly surreal.

  Noam Chomsky

  School, Office, Effort

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• A federal court has ruled that the U.S. Postal Service must reduce its stamp prices. The change in stamp prices is expected to affect as many as seven Americans.

  Conan O'Brien

  Seven, Court, Stamps

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• Just take ease of interchange between people. Your email is of course faster than letter - on the other hand the transition from sailing ship to telegraphs was far greater than the shift from the postal service to email. That was a fabulous change. If you sent a letter to England, instead of waiting a couple of months for a response you got it instantly. That's a huge change. Every one of these changes of course increases opportunities and also increases means of control and domination.

  Noam Chomsky

  Couple, Mean, Opportunity

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• The Postal Service needs tools to modernize and compete. That is why today I am a cosponsor of H.R. 22, the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act.

  Joe Baca

  Accountability, Needs, Tools

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• It is especially imperative for Congress to exercise careful judgment in this area, because of the difficulty under existing laws, in obtaining judicial review of Postal Service abuses. ...We strongly oppose the legislation's infringement of rights guaranteed under the First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution.

  John Shattuck

  Exercise, Dark, Rights

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• After examining some of the recent cases which the Postal Service has pursued, vigorous prosecution of, for example, a health food advocate.

  Vin Weber

  Dark, Age, Example

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• If you spot a market where the only choices are at either one end or the other - high fidelity or high convenience - there's probably a big opportunity at the other end. That was the opening for Federal Express, for instance. When it started, there was only one mail service in America - the US Postal Service, which was high convenience. Fred Smith created a high-fidelity mail service.

  Kevin Maney

  Opportunity, America, Choices

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• So here I am, my affections torn between a postal service that never feeds me but can tackle a challenge and one that gives me free tape and prompt service but won't help me out when I can't remember a street name. The lesson to draw from this, of course, is that when you move from one country to another you have to accept that there are some things that are better and some things worse, and there is nothing you can do about it. That may not be the profoundest of insights to take away from a morning's outing, but I did get a free doughnut as well, so on balance I guess I'm happy.

  Bill Bryson

  Country, Morning, Moving

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