http://www.weekmail.com Mail, or post, is a method for transmitting information and tangible objects, wherein written documents, typically enclosed in envelopes and also small packages are delivered to destinations around the world. Anything sent through the postal system is called mail or post.[1] In principle, a postal service can be private or public. Governments often place restrictions on private postal delivery systems. Since the mid 19th century national postal systems have generally been established as government monopolies with a fee on the article prepaid. Proof of payment is often in the form of adhesive postage stamps, but postage meters are also used for bulk mailing. Postal systems often have functions other than sending letters. In some countries, the postal system also has some authority over telephone and telegraph systems. In others, postal systems allow for savings accounts and handling applications for passports. en-us Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:58:03 CST Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:58:03 CST http://www.weekmail.com/ Mail, or post, is a method for transmitting information and tangible objects, wherein written documents, typically enclosed in envelopes and also small packages are delivered to destinations around the world. Anything sent through the postal system is called mail or post.[1] In principle, a postal service can be private or public. Governments often place restrictions on private postal delivery systems. Since the mid 19th century national postal systems have generally been established as government monopolies with a fee on the article prepaid. Proof of payment is often in the form of adhesive postage stamps, but postage meters are also used for bulk mailing. Postal systems often have functions other than sending letters. In some countries, the postal system also has some authority over telephone and telegraph systems. In others, postal systems allow for savings accounts and handling applications for passports. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:58:03 CST http://www.weekmail.com/headlines/news/Mail, email, e-mail, gmail Mail, email, e-mail, gmail News Headline :Mail, or post, is a method for transmitting information and tangible objects, wherein written documents, typically enclosed in envelopes and also small packages are delivered to destinations around the world. Anything sent through the postal system is called mail or post.[1] In principle, a postal service can be private or public. Governments often place restrictions on private postal delivery systems. Since the mid 19th century national postal systems have generally been established as government monopolies with a fee on the article prepaid. Proof of payment is often in the form of adhesive postage stamps, but postage meters are also used for bulk mailing. Postal systems often have functions other than sending letters. In some countries, the postal system also has some authority over telephone and telegraph systems. In others, postal systems allow for savings accounts and handling applications for passports. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:58:03 CST http://www.weekmail.com/resources/partners Other Resources :Mail, or post, is a method for transmitting information and tangible objects, wherein written documents, typically enclosed in envelopes and also small packages are delivered to destinations around the world. Anything sent through the postal system is called mail or post.[1] In principle, a postal service can be private or public. Governments often place restrictions on private postal delivery systems. Since the mid 19th century national postal systems have generally been established as government monopolies with a fee on the article prepaid. Proof of payment is often in the form of adhesive postage stamps, but postage meters are also used for bulk mailing. Postal systems often have functions other than sending letters. In some countries, the postal system also has some authority over telephone and telegraph systems. In others, postal systems allow for savings accounts and handling applications for passports. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:58:03 CST http://www.weekmail.com/articles/23011/Mail... Collection of British Pillar boxes at the Inkpen Post Box Museum, near Taunton, Somerset Mail, or 2009-08-08 http://www.weekmail.com/articles/23012/Early-Postal-Systems... Many early post systems consisted of fixed courier routes. Here, a post house on a postal route in 19th century Eastern Europe The art of communication by written documents carried by an intermediary from one person or place to another almost certainly dates back nearly to the invention of writing. However, development of formal postal s... 2009-08-08 http://www.weekmail.com/articles/23013/Etymology... The word mail comes from the Medieval English word male (spelt that way until the 17th century), which was the term used to describe a traveling bag or pack. The French have a similar word, malle for a trunk or large box, and mála is the Irish for a bag. In the 1600s the word mail began to appear as a r... 2009-08-08 http://www.weekmail.com/articles/23014/Modern-Mail... Modern mail is organized by national and privatized services, which are reciprocally interconnected by international regulations, organizations and international agreements. Paper letters and parcels can be sent to almost any country in the world relatively easily and cheaply. The Internet has made the process of sending letter-like messages nea... 2009-08-08 http://www.weekmail.com/articles/23016/Types-of-Mail... Pillar boxes on the island of Madeira. (1st class mail in blue and 2nd class in red) Letters Letter-sized mail comprises the bulk of the contents sent through m... 2009-08-08 http://www.weekmail.com/articles/23028/Airmail... Airmail (or air mail) is mail that is transported by aircraft. It typically arrives more quickly than surface mail, and usually costs more to send. Airmail may be the only option for sending mail to some destinations, such as overseas, if the mail cannot wait the time it would take to arrive by ship, sometimes w... 2009-08-08 http://www.weekmail.com/articles/23029/Express-mail... In most postal systems express mail refers to an accelerated delivery service for which the customer pays a surcharge and receives faster delivery. Express mail is a service for domestic mail and is governed by a country's own postal administration. Since 1998 the international accelerated delivery services are governed by the E... 2009-08-08 http://www.weekmail.com/articles/23030/Mail-Carrier... A mail carrier, post carrier, or postman (sometimes known as a mailman or letter carrier in North America or New Zealand and a postie in Australia, New Zealand) is an employee of the post office or postal service, who delivers mail and parcel po... 2009-08-08 http://www.weekmail.com/articles/23031/Courier... A courier is a person or company employed to deliver messages, packages and mail. Couriers are distinguished from ordinary mail services by features such as speed, security, tracking, signature, specialization and individualization of services, and committed delivery times, which are optional for most everyday mail services. As ... 2009-08-08 http://www.weekmail.com/articles/23032/Fan-mail... Fan mail is mail sent to a public figure, especially a celebrity, by their admirers or fans. Overview Fan mail may be in the form of letters, cards, artworks, gifts, and so on; depending on the recipient, it may also be possible to send fan mail via E-mail. People send to athl... 2009-08-08 http://www.weekmail.com/articles/23033/Hate-mail... Hate mail (as electronic, posted, or otherwise) is a form of harassment, usually consisting of invective and potentially intimidating or threatening comments towards the recipient. Hate mail often contains exceptionally abusive, foul or otherwise hurtful language. The recipient may receive disparaging remarks concerning ... 2009-08-08 http://www.weekmail.com/articles/23034/Love-letter... The Love Letter by Johannes Vermeer A love letter is a romantic way to express feelings of love in wri... 2009-08-08 http://www.weekmail.com/articles/23035/Snail-mail... Snail mail or smail (from snail + mail) is a dysphemistic retronym — named after the snail with its slow speed — used to refer to letters and missives carried by conventional postal delivery services. The phrase refers to the lag-time between dispatch of a letter and its receipt, versus the virtually... 2009-08-08 http://www.weekmail.com/articles/23036/Irradiated-mail... Irradiated mail is mail that has been deliberately exposed to radiation, typically in an effort to disinfect it. The most notable instance of mail irradiation occurred in response to the 2001 anthrax attacks; the level of radiation chosen to kill anthrax spores was so high that it often changed the physical appearance of t... 2009-08-08 http://www.weekmail.com/articles/23037/Mail-chute... A mail chute is a letter collection device used in multi-story office buildings, hotels, apartment buildings and other high rise structures. Letters are dropped from the upper stories and collected usually at the ground level at a central depository by the postal service. This innovation was before the time of the modern mail r... 2009-08-08 http://www.weekmail.com/articles/23038/Mail-forwarding... Post offices and other mail service providers typically offer a mail forwarding service (also commonly known as Hybrid Mail or Virtual PO Box services) to redirect mail destined for one location to another — usually for a given period of time. (In the case of the United States Postal Service's First Class Mail it is genera... 2009-08-08 http://www.weekmail.com/articles/23039/Hybrid-mail... Hybrid mail is physical post which is sent as an electronic document to a printing location near its destination, only traveling in physical form for a small part of the journey. Because much of the mechanical sorting and shipping is eliminated, hybrid mail can be cheaper and greener than traditional mail. 2009-08-08 http://www.weekmail.com/articles/23040/Mail-drop... Commercial mail receiving agency A commercial mail receiving agency (CMRA), also known as a mail drop, typically operates as a Private Mail Box Operator. A customer of a CMRA can receive mail and other deliveries at the street address of the CMRA rather than the customer's own street address.... 2009-08-08 http://www.weekmail.com/articles/23041/Post-office... A post office is a facility authorised by a postal system for the posting, receipt, sorting, handling, transmission or delivery of mail. Post offices offer mail-related services such as post office boxes, postage and packaging supplies. In addition, some post offices offer non-postal services such as passport applications and ot... 2009-08-08 http://www.weekmail.com/articles/23043/Postal-code... A postal code (known in various countries as a post code, postcode, or ZIP code) is a series of letters and/or digits appended to a postal address for the purpose of sorting mail. Germany was the first country to introduce a postal code system, in 1941. The United Kingdo... 2009-08-08 http://www.weekmail.com/articles/23044/Mailing-address-format-by-country... An address is a collection of information, presented in a mostly fixed format, used for describing the location of a building, apartment, or other structure or a plot of land, generally using political boundaries and street names as references, along with other identifiers such as house or apartment numbers. Some addresses also ... 2009-08-08 http://www.weekmail.com/articles/23045/List-of-postal-codes... This list shows an overview of postal code notation schemes for all countries that have postal or ZIP code systems. Key A: Letters. 9: Digits. *: Postal code placed to the right of the region, city, suburb or town. 2009-08-08 http://www.weekmail.com/articles/23046/ZIP-Code... Mr. ZIP promoted the use of ZIP codes for the USPS during the 1960s and 1970s The ZIP code is the system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS). The letters ZIP, an acronym for Zone Improvement... 2009-08-08 http://www.weekmail.com/articles/23048/Electronic-Mail... Electronic mail, often abbreviated as email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages, designed primarily for human use. E-mail systems are based on a store-and-forward model in which e-mail computer server systems accept, forward, deliver and store messages on behalf of users, who o... 2009-08-08 http://www.weekmail.com/articles/23049/HTML-e-Mail... HTML e-mail is the use of a subset of HTML (often ill-defined) to provide formatting and semantic markup capabilities in e-mail that are not available with plain text. Most graphical e-mail clients support HTML e-mail, and many default to it. Many of these clients include both a GUI editor for composing HTML e-mails and ... 2009-08-08 http://www.weekmail.com/articles/23050/e-Mail-encryption... e-Mail encryption protocols Popular protocols for e-mail encryption include: S/MIME TLS OpenPGP Identity based encryption Mail sessions encryption 2009-08-08 http://www.weekmail.com/articles/23051/Mule-(e-Mail)... A MULE email account means different things. It may refer to an address maintained by an individual for the sole purpose of signing up for online offers or registering with a websites which require an email address. MULE accounts are used in order to prevent the loss of privacy and to avoid spam. Alternatively it... 2009-08-08 http://www.weekmail.com/articles/23052/Privacy-enhanced-Electronic-Mail... Privacy Enhanced Mail (PEM), is an early IETF proposal for securing email using public key cryptography. Although PEM became an IETF proposed standard it was never widely deployed or used. One reason for the lack of deployment was that the PEM protocol depended on prior deployment of a hierarchical publi... 2009-08-08 http://www.weekmail.com/articles/23053/Push-e-Mail... Push e-mail is used to describe e-mail systems that provide an always-on capability, in which new e-mail is instantly and actively transferred (pushed) as it arrives by the mail delivery agent (MDA) (commonly called mail server) to the mail user agent (MUA), also called the e-mail client. E-mail clients include smartphones and... 2009-08-08 http://www.weekmail.com/articles/23056/e-Mail-Art... E-mail art (sometimes called Electronic Mail Art) is simply any kind of art sent by e-mail. It includes computer graphics, animations, screensavers, digital scans of artwork in other media, or even ASCII art. When exhibited, e-mail art can be either displayed on a computer screen or similar type of display device, or the art c... 2009-08-08 http://www.weekmail.com/articles/23058/e-Mail-Jamming-... E-mail jamming is the use of sensitive words in e-mails to jam the authorities that listen in on them by providing a form of a red herring and an intentional annoyance. It is used by some civil rights activists in an attempt to thwart government spy networks such as ECHELON. Activists deliberately include sensitive words and p... 2009-08-08 http://www.weekmail.com/articles/23060/e-Mail-spam... e-Mail spam, also known as junk e-mail, is a subset of spam that involves nearly identical messages sent to numerous recipients by e-Mail. A common synonym for spam is unsolicited bulk e-mail (UBE). Definitions of spam usually include the aspects that email is unsolicited and sent in bulk. UCE refers specifica... 2009-08-08 http://www.weekmail.com/articles/23061/e-Mail-Storm... An e-mail storm is a sudden spike of Reply All messages on an email distribution list, usually caused by a controversial or misdirected message. Such storms start when multiple members of the distribution list reply to the entire list at the same time in response instigating message. Other members soon respond, usually adding vi... 2009-08-08 http://www.weekmail.com/articles/23062/e-Mail-Spoofing... E-mail spoofing is a term used to describe (usually fraudulent) e-mail activity in which the sender address and other parts of the e-mail header are altered to appear as though the e-mail originated from a different source. E-mail spoofing is a technique commonly used for spam e-mail and phishing to hide the origin of an e-Mail ... 2009-08-08 http://www.weekmail.com/articles/23063/e-Mail-Authentication... e-Mail authentication is the effort to equip messages of the e-mail transport system with enough verifiable information, so that recipients can recognize the nature of each incoming message automatically. It differs from content filtering. Rationale Ensuring a valid identity... 2009-08-08 http://www.weekmail.com/articles/23064/Chain-e-Mail... A typical chain letter consists of a message that attempts to induce the recipient to make a number of copies of the letter and then pass them on to as many recipients as possible. Common methods used in chain letters include emotionally manipulative stories, get-rich-quick pyramid schemes, and the exploitation of superstition t... 2009-08-08 http://www.weekmail.com/articles/23065/e-Mail-Address... An e-mail address identifies a location to which e-mail messages can be delivered. An e-mail address on the modern Internet looks like, for example, jsmith@example.com and is usually read as jsmith at example dot com. Many earlier e-mail systems had different formats for e-mail addresses and because modern e-mail syst... 2009-08-08 http://www.weekmail.com/articles/23066/e-Mail-Client... An e-mail client (also mail user agent (MUA) or e-mail reader) is a frontend computer program used to manage e-mail. Sometimes, the term e-mail client is also used to refer to any agent acting as a client toward an e-mail server, independently of it being a real MUA, a relaying ... 2009-08-08 http://www.weekmail.com/articles/23067/e-Mail-hosting-service... An email hosting service is an Internet hosting service that runs email servers. Email hosting services usually offer premium email at a cost as opposed to advertising supported free email or free webmail. Email hosting services thus differ from typical end-user email providers such as webmail sites. They cater mostly to... 2009-08-08 http://www.weekmail.com/articles/23068/Unicode-and-e-Mail... Many e-Mail clients now offer some support for Unicode in e-mail bodies. Most do not send in Unicode by default, as the reader client might not support it, but as time passes, more and more systems are likely to be set up with fonts capable of displaying the full range of Unicode characters (or at least the set likely to be of interest to the us... 2009-08-08 http://www.weekmail.com/articles/23071/Once-a-Week-Mail-Delivery... It's a idea of Barr Hillson May 27 2004 Once a week mail delivery - Why not force senders or receivers of mail to pay extra for timely delivery? Conversely, why not provide senders a lower-cost option for non-timely delivery of mail? If normal ma... 2009-08-09 http://www.weekmail.com/news/404275/-CatMail-change-starts-today-(Arizona-Daily-Wildcat)... UA technology officials confirmed this weekend that CatMail, a new campus e-mail system operated by Google, will open today as scheduled. “We are definitely a ‘go’ for Monday,” said Julie Suess, information technology project manager with University Information Technology Services.... Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:01:17 GMT http://www.weekmail.com/news/404276/-Gmail-instead-of-student-E-mail?-(The-PUC-Chronicle)... It's not a secret: Most PUC students do not check their PUC email. According to the SGA, a survey was sent out last semester about NetMail usage, in which students overwhelmingly did not regularly-if at all-check their accounts. For the SGA, this was a concern, as something needed to be done to get students to use their PUC email.... Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:43:52 GMT http://www.weekmail.com/news/404277/-Gmail-for-iPhone-gets-'never-ending'-compose-box-(CNET)... Long-winded iPhone e-mail authors can tap, tap away in a new, automatically expanding window when composing mail from Gmail.com.... Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:59:19 GMT http://www.weekmail.com/news/404278/-T-Mobile-pushes-Motorola-Cliq-into-wide-release-(The-Christian-Science-Monitor)... The social fanatic's dream. That's the tag-line for the Cliq, a new smartphone built by Motorola – and T-Mobile is hoping it will be enough to pry a swath of young consumers away from their iPhones. In a statement timed to coincide with the release of the Cliq, Motorola said that ...... Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:10:26 GMT http://www.weekmail.com/news/404279/-Published-on-November-03,-2009-(Daily-Sundial)... The outlook for the third attempt to use an online elections system for the Associated Students (A.S.) elections in the past three years is optimistic, but no one is willing to say it will be a success just yet.... Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:07:42 GMT http://www.weekmail.com/news/404280/-'Stikk'-to-your-commitments-(Summit-Daily-News)... 'Stikk' to your commitments By Erin Pheil special to the daily Truly Helpful Site of the Week: Stickk.com I learned about this gem of a site while reading the book Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein. Stickk.com helps people reach specific goals they set for themselves: goals from the seemingly small (such as make an appointment for the dent... Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:35:54 GMT http://www.weekmail.com/news/404281/-Samsung-Moment-Now-Available-from-Sprint-(Brighthand)... Sprint has released its second Android-based smartphone, the Samsung Moment . This new model features a 3.2-inch AM-OLED screen, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, an optical joystick, fast processor, and Wi-Fi.... Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:04:56 GMT http://www.weekmail.com/news/404282/-Google-Wave-Will-Kill-Email,-Your-Social-Life-(NBC-Philadelphia)... Learn about Google's plan to replace email with a new application that will almost certainly record your innermost thoughts and one day use them against you.... Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:35:33 GMT http://www.weekmail.com/news/404283/-Yahoo-Mail-outages-plague-some-users-(CNET)... Outages were reported Monday morning on the most widely used Web e-mail system in the world, although the breadth of the problem is unclear.... Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:59:29 GMT http://www.weekmail.com/news/404284/-Police-to-seek-US-help-in-Anoushka-case-(IE-via-Yahoo!-India-News)... In an attempt to gather evidence against a man who allegedly attempted to extort money from Anoushka Shankar, the Delhi Police has received a city court's nod to seek the assistance of US authorities.... Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:55:44 GMT