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(Encyclopedia) mail: see postal service.

Junk Mail

Director:Pål SletauneWriters:Jonny Halberg and Pål SletauneDirector of Photography:Kjell VassdalEditor:Pål GengenbachMusic:Joachim HolbekProducers:Petter Boe and Dag NordahlLions Gate; R; 83…

Mail Fraud

More and more consumers are receiving misleading or downright fraudulent mail promotions. These promotions take several forms. Some examples are:sweepstakes that require you to pay an entry…

electronic mail

(Encyclopedia) electronic mail or e-mail, the electronic transmission of messages, letters, and documents. In its broadest sense electronic mail includes point-to-point services such as telegraph and…

e-mail

(Encyclopedia) e-mail: see electronic mail.

airmail

(Encyclopedia) airmail, transport of mail by airplanes. Demonstration flights that showed the feasibility of carrying mail by air were made in Great Britain and in the United States in 1911. In the…

Brewer's: Black Mail

Money given to free-booters by way of exempting property from depredation. (Anglo-Saxon, mal, “rent-tax;” French, maille, an old coin worth .083 farthing). Grass mail was rent paid for…

Brown, Walter Folger

(Encyclopedia) Brown, Walter FolgerBrown, Walter Folgerfōlˈjər [key], 1869–1961, American cabinet officer, b. Massillon, Ohio. A lawyer of Toledo, Ohio, he became prominent in Republican politics and…

postal service

(Encyclopedia) postal service, arrangements made by a government for the transmission of letters, packages, and periodicals, and for related services. Early courier systems for government use were…