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A Delivery Bar Code Sorter (DBCS) is a mail sorting machine used primarily by the United States Postal Service. Introduced in 1990, these machines sort letters at a rate of approximately 36,000 pieces per hour, [1] with a 99% accuracy rate. A computer scans the addresses of the mail, and sorts it to one of up to 286 pockets, setting it up for delivery by the letter carrier. [2]
Mystic Stamp Company is an American, employee-owned stamp dealer founded in 1923 by Lawrence K. Shaver (1903 – September 23, 1990). [1] The company is headquartered where it was founded, in Camden, New York. It specializes in the buying and selling of postage stamps, collecting supplies, and other philatelic items.
The first postage stamp was issued in Great Britain in 1840, and by the early 1860s the first postage stamp forgery [3] —in the sense of a stamp created to fool philatelists into thinking that it is a genuine one—appeared on the market. By 1863 forgeries were so common that the book Forged Stamps: How to Detect Them was published [4] and by 1864, forgeries were being produced of both ...
The Congressional Post Office scandal was the discovery of corruption among various Congressional Post Office employees and members of the United States House of Representatives, investigated 1991–1995, culminating in House Ways and Means Committee chairman Dan Rostenkowski (D- IL) pleading guilty in 1996 to reduced charges of mail fraud. Initially an investigation by the United States ...
Nadthawan Panthong (Thai: ณัฐวรรณ พานทอง, born November 16, 1997), known professionally as Stamp Fairtex (Thai: แสตมป์ แฟร์เท็กซ์), is a Muay Thai kickboxer and mixed martial artist from Thailand.
The Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service is the governing body of the United States Postal Service (USPS). [1] The board oversees the activities of the Postal Service, while the postmaster general actively manages its day-to-day operations. [2] The board directs "the exercise of the power" of the Postal Service, controls its expenditures, and reviews its practices and ...
The most popular sport in Mexico currently is association football (soccer) followed by boxing and lucha libre. [1][2] Historically, football has been the dominant sport in Mexico shaping the national sports scene. The Liga MX (Mexican Primera División) is one of the top football leagues globally. Baseball also holds a notable place in Mexican sports culture, particularly in the northwest and ...
Diagram showing placement of the FIM (FIM C in this example) on a reply mailer The Facing Identification Mark, or FIM, is a bar code designed by the United States Postal Service to assist in the automated processing of mail. The FIM is a set of vertical bars printed on the envelope or postcard near the upper edge, just to the left of the postage area (the area where the postage stamp or its ...