2007.10.15 英語學習筆記（At the post office）

Live ABC life English
http://www.liveabc.com/epaper/live/2001/12/07/paper.asp

內容摘記
有些詞語與用法常會在郵局用到，但是我們不會去注意它如下簡記心得
回郵地址 ： return address
郵遞區號 ： U.S --> ZIP Code
U.K --> postal Code
正楷的大寫 ： BLOCK CAPITALS
掛號信 ： registered mail

常用俚語
讓我們下個結論 ： let's wrap things up.
馬上可以用的 ： Right out of the box.
限制或是侷限 ：Boxed in.
黑箱作業 ： Black box.
一般郵件 ： snail mail. 相對於現代的電子郵件

成語
A Dear John letter. 什麼意思，詳情看Live ABC 網站

維基百科簡介美國郵政服務部門
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_Department
United States Post Office Department
The Post Office Department is the former name of the United States Postal Service when it was a Cabinet department. It was headed by the United States Postmaster General.
The Postal Service Act signed by President George Washington on February 20, 1792 established the Department. Postmaster General John McLean was the first to call it the Post Office Department rather than just the "Post Office." The organization received a boost in prestige when President Andrew Jackson invited his Postmaster General, William T. Barry, to sit as a member of the Cabinet.[1]
During the Civil War, postal services in the Confederacy were provided by the Confederate Post Office Department, headed by Postmaster General John Henninger Reagan.
The Postal Reorganization Act signed by President Richard Nixon on August 12, 1970, replaced the cabinet-level Post Office Department with the independent United States Postal Service. The Act took effect on July 1, 1971.