Osborne, Linda Barrett
Summary: ""In America, one of the first things done in a new State is to have the mail come." -Alexis de Toqueville, 1835 Who's Got Mail? is an intriguing and fact-filled look at how the mail has been delivered in the U.S. since the Constitution was signed. In the United States, the spread of the postal service went hand in hand with the spread of democracy and transportation. As settlement spread west,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 383 OSBSummary: In this enchanting feature, Jacques Tati stars as a fussbudget of a postman who is thrown for a loop when a traveling fair comes to his village. Tati shot this film simultaneously in black and white and in an untested color process that proved impossible to print copies of. In 1964 he re-edited it with added hand-colored footage, and in 1995 the full-color film was able to be released from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JOUTyner, Artika R.
Summary: "When the United States entered World War II, it had to face its own contradictions at home. Opportunities opened up for Black people and women in support of the war effort. But ideas about race and gender didn't change as swiftly. Read the story of the first all-Black battalion in the Women's Army Corps-the Six Triple Eight-and its leader, Major Charity Adams. These women bravely confronted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.54 TYNShaw, Christopher W.
Summary: "The U.S. Postal System is under assault. For decades, corporate interests and ideologues have sought to convert this invaluable public institution into yet another profit-driven corporation. In 2020, the attacks escalated. In the middle of a pandemic anda presidential election dependent on mail-in ballots, the newly installed postmaster, Louis DeJoy, disrupted postal operations by slowing down...
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Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 383 SHABergel, Colin
Summary: A young girl learns how the birthday card she makes for her father will get to him as he works on a freighter carrying coal on Lake Michigan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2000
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BERHall, Norman.
Contents: "Includes the battery 473 exam"--Cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Adams Media 2008
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1 available in Test, Call number: T 383.145 HALGosney, John.
Summary: Offers information on salary and benefits, training and qualifications, and preparing for the right exam, and includes nine practice tests with answers and detailed explanation for every question.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peterson's 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: T 383.145 GOSManushkin, Fran
Summary: On a trip to the post office to mail a present to her grandfather, Katie learns all about how the mail works.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR PURPLE MANSummary: When the Colewell post office is slated for closure, Nora Pancowski is faced with sudden retirement. As she weighs relocating, a young woman causes Nora to reflect on her youth and the choices that led her to Colewell.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COLHarness, Cheryl.
Summary: Relates the history of the Pony Express from when it began to carry messages across the American West in April 1860 until the telegraph replaced it in October 1861.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 1996
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 383.14 HARSummary: The movie that started it all. "Signed, Sealed, Delivered," introduces a dedicated, quartet of civil servants in the Dead Letter Office of the U.S. Postal System who transform themselves into an elite team of lost-mail detectives. Their determination to deliver the seemingly undeliverable takes them out of the post office into an unpredictable world where letters and packages from the past save...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark 2015
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Signed 2013Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Si 1Bourgeois, Paulette.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Bourgeois 1998Clanton, Ben
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CLASummary: The Postables discover an antique vase with a letter inside and decide to track down its origin; the Postables take a road trip to track down a boy who might have been kidnapped; the Postables discover a letter with clues about a young woman's missing mother while preparing for Norman and Rita's wedding; the Postables help a boy with leukemia to reunite with his lost friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Channel 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SIGBrown, Rita Mae.
Summary: Mary Minor Haristeen, postmistress of Crozet, Virginia, joins forces with her willful cat, Mrs. Murphy, and her Welsh corgi, Tucker, to investigate a series of bizarre postcards sent to the town's inhabitants that forecast impending death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROCullen, Helen
Summary: Inside the walls of the Dead Letters Depot, letter detectives work to solve mysteries. They study missing zip codes, illegible handwriting, rain-smudged ink, lost address labels, torn packages, forgotten street names--all the many twists of fate behind missed birthdays, broken hearts, unheard confessions, pointless accusations, unpaid bills, unanswered prayers. Their mission is to unite lost...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CULGibbons, Gail.
Summary: A step-by-step description of what happens to mail from the time it is deposited in the mailbox to its arrival at its destination. Also includes brief historical facts about mail service in the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: T.Y. Crowell Jr 1982
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 383.4 GIBHeide, Iris van der.
Summary: Upset when an important letter does not arrive in the mail as expected, Jack wanders through the park not even noticing what he is doing and becomes an unwitting hero.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lemniscaat 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC heiMurray, Julie
Summary: Little readers can learn about a vehicle they see every day while strengthening reading skill. Complete with colorful and fun photographs that match the text, a picture glossary, and a fun "Parts of an Mail Truck" page.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Kids 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR GREEN MURSummary: When plans for Rita and Norman's long-awaited wedding begins falling apart days before the ceremony, their challenges inspire changes that make their wedding more meaningful. Meanwhile, Shane convinces Oliver that the team should urgently focus on finding clues to deliver a package containing a wedding dress.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Channel 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Si 11Summary: The Postables are on a mission to deliver a soldier's letter from Afghanistan to a teenager who's being relentlessly bullied, while Oliver's estranged father surprises him with news that shakes him to his core.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Channel 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Si 3Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SiCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Signed 2014Summary: 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."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Channel 2016
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Signed 2016Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Si 2Blake, Sarah
Summary: The stories of a small Cape Cod postmistress and an American radio reporter stationed in London collide on the eve of the United States's entrance into World War II, a meeting that is shaped by a broken promise to deliver a letter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2011