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Discworld volume 30
Language
English
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Arch-swindler Moist Van Lipwig never believed his confidence crimes were hanging offenses-until he found himself with a noose tightly around his neck, dropping through a trapdoor, and falling into-a government job? By all rights, Moist should have met his maker. Instead, it's Lord Vetinari, supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork, who promptly offers him a job as Postmaster. Since his only other option is a nonliving one, Moist accepts the position-and the...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
This is a multifaceted history, full of remarkable characters, from the stamp-collecting FDR, to the revolutionaries who challenged USPS's monopoly on mail, to the renegade union members who brought the system--and the country--to a halt in the 1970s. An exciting and engrossing read, this is the first major history of the USPS in over fifty years.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
After Liam writes to his mailbox, asking for more mail, he gets his wish, but soon he realizes that sending mail is even more fun than receiving it.
8) Penguin post
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
While his mother is looking for food and his father is tending their egg, a young penguin named Milo is charged with delivering the mail, not knowing that he is about to make a very special delivery.
Author
Publisher
Bookhaven Press LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The all new sixth edition of Post Office Jobs provides an overview of what jobs are available, including many that don't require written tests and how to apply for them. You will also find a comprehensive 473/473E study guide with helpful test taking strategies that could dramatically improve many applicant's exam scores. Seven other sample postal exams are included in this new edition for maintenance, clerical, technician, and other major occupations....
Publisher
Cinedigm Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A wonderful combination of romance, comedy and drama that follows the lives of four postal detectives who transform themselves into a team of detectives to track down intended recipients of undeliverable mail. Their missions take them out of the office and into an unpredictable world where redirected letters and packages can save lives, solve crimes, reunite old loves and change futures by arriving late but somehow always on time.
11) The giant hug
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
When Owen sends a real hug to his grandmother for her birthday he inadvertently brings cheer to the postal workers as they pass the hug along.
13) Jour de fête =
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
p2014.
Language
Français
Description
In this enchanting debut feature, Jacques Tati stars as a fussbudget of a postman who is thrown for a loop when a traveling fair comes to his village.
14) Mailing May
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1914, because her family cannot afford a train ticket to her grandmother's town, May gets mailed and rides the mail car on the train to see her grandmother.
Author
Series
Discworld volume 32
Language
English
Formats
Description
""Like the best of its predecessors, Making Money balances satire, knockabout farce and close observation of human — and non-human — foibles with impressive dexterity and deceptive ease. The result is another ingenious entertainment from the preeminent comic fantasist of our time." — Washington Post.
The hero of Going Postal returns in the 36th installment of Sir
...Publisher
Hallmark Channel
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The Postables deliver romance and charm from the Dead Letter Office as they investigate the story behind two year old divorce papers that have been lost in the mail. Work takes a personal turn when Shane finds an old note from Oliver to his estranged wife Holly. Watch as past heartache leads to the possibility of happily ever after.
19) Pony express!
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses the eighteen month history, officially beginning April 3, 1860, of the mail delivery between Saint Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California, known as the Pony Express.
Author
Publisher
Tundra
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A relatable story about facing fears and giving others a second chance follows the experiences of a young girl who dreads being waited on by a postal worker she believes to be cranky and mean, before a kind decision transforms her perspective.
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