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  2. Canada Post - Wikipedia

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    Canada Post (French: Postes Canada) is the Federal Identity Program name. The legal name is Canada Post Corporation in English and Société canadienne des postes in French. During the late 1980s and much of the 1990s, the short forms used in the corporation's logo were "Mail" (English) and "Poste" (French), rendered as "Poste Mail" in Québec ...

  3. Rural letter carrier - Wikipedia

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    The service has grown steadily. By 1901, the mileage had increased to over 100,000; the cost was $1,750,321 and over 37,000 carriers were employed. In 1910, the mileage was 993,068; cost $36,915,000; carriers 40,997. In 1913 came the introduction of parcel post delivery, which caused another boom in rural deliveries. Parcel post service allowed ...

  4. List of current ships of the Royal Canadian Navy - Wikipedia

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    Delivery has been initiated on a class of six Harry DeWolf-class vessels under the Arctic Patrol Ship Project. (A further two AOPS are planned for the Canadian Coast Guard). Submarines. Canada has been encouraged to invest in new submarines. In July 2024, Canada launched the process to acquire up to 12 conventional attack submarines.

  5. Delivery schedule adherence - Wikipedia

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    It is a commonly used supply chain metric and forms part of the Quality, Cost, Delivery group of performance indicators. Calculation. Delivery schedule adherence is calculated by dividing the number of “on time” deliveries in a period by the total number of deliveries made. The result is then multiplied by 100 and expressed as a percentage.

  6. History of United States postage rates - Wikipedia

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    Postal rates to 1847. Initial United States postage rates were set by Congress as part of the Postal Service Act signed into law by President George Washington on February 20, 1792. The postal rate varied according to "distance zone", the distance a letter was to be carried from the post office where it entered the mail to its final destination.

  7. Rural Free Delivery - Wikipedia

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    Rural Free Delivery ( RFD ), since 1906 officially rural delivery, is a program of the United States Post Office Department to deliver mail directly to rural destinations. The program began in the late 19th century. Before that, people living in rural areas had to pick up mail themselves at sometimes distant post offices or pay private carriers ...

  8. Postage stamps and postal history of Canada - Wikipedia

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    The postal and philatelic history of Canada concerns postage of the territories which have formed Canada. Before Canadian confederation, the colonies of British Columbia and Vancouver Island, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Newfoundland issued stamps in their own names. The postal history falls into four major periods ...

  9. List of equipment of the Canadian Army - Wikipedia

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    Canada. Multi-tool. 53,853 [30] Stainless steel multi-tool with pliers, a file, a drop point knife blade, a serrated knife blade, multiple flat-head screwdrivers, a wire cutter, a can opener, a bottle opener, a lanyard, and a metric/imperial ruler. [30] [31] Gerber Multi-Tool.