postal service

Last week, North Carolina’s bipartisan State Board of Elections approved emergency measures to help hurricane victims vote in 13 counties where infrastructure, accessibility to voting sites, and postal services remain disrupted.

A letter simply addressed to “Mr James Holland, well known historian, Wiltshire” reached its destination thanks to the power of the postal service.

Apart from owning the majority of the land, they ran the railways, the postal service, the telegraph.

Officials have "called in" the purchase of the postal service's parent company for an investigation under the National Security and Investment Act.

"I can't think of any other country in the world that would just just hand over its entire postal service to an overseas equity investor," Mr Ward of the CWU said.