A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels , providing post office boxes , and selling postage stamps , packaging, and stationery . Post offices may offer additional services, which vary by country. These include providing and accepting government forms (such as passport applications), and processing government services and fees (such as road tax , postal savings , or bank fees). The chief administrator of a post office is called a postmaster .
22-764: [REDACTED] Look up marinette in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Marinette may refer to: Places [ edit ] Marinette, Arizona , a ghost town in Maricopa County, U.S. Marinette, Nova Scotia , a community of the Halifax Regional Municipality in Canada Marinette, Wisconsin , a city in Wisconsin bordering Michigan, U.S. Marinette County, Wisconsin ,
44-480: A deep well pumping system in order to better irrigate his crops. In 1918, Davie began planting sugar beets . Sugar beets were a very popular commodity in the area around this time, as William J. Murphy , founder of Glendale, Arizona was also a commercial grower and had opened the Beet Sugar Factory in 1906. Davie invested heavily in his sugar beet crops, and soon learned that the soil could not produce
66-594: A line of motor yachts built by Aluminum Cruisers Inc. USS Marinette (YTB-791) , a 1967 United States Navy harbor tug See also [ edit ] La Marinete, one of the IAI Dagger squadrons in the Argentine air forces in the Falklands War Marionette (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
88-491: A sweet enough beet, losing a great amount of his money. In 1920, R.P. Davie sold his remaining land to the Southwest Cotton Company, a former subsidiary of Goodyear , used to expand their cotton growing operations from Goodyear and Litchfield Park . Southwest Cotton eventually sold their holdings to J.G. Boswell in 1936, allowing his company to continue to grow cotton, as well as lettuce. In 1957,
110-402: Is identified by its PIN. Post offices coming under Department of Posts, Ministry of Communication, Government of India have a history of one hundred fifty years. Private courier and delivery services often have offices as well, although these are usually not called "post offices", except in the case of Germany , which has fully privatised its national postal system . As abbreviation PO
132-464: Is instead known as a sorting office or delivery office, which may have a large central area known as a sorting or postal hall. Integrated facilities combining mail processing with railway stations or airports are known as mail exchanges. In India , post offices are found in almost every village having panchayat (a "village council"), towns, cities, and throughout the geographical area of India. India's postal system changed its name to India Post after
154-433: Is used, together with GPO for General Post Office and LPO for Licensed Post Office. There is evidence of corps of royal couriers disseminating the decrees of Egyptian pharaohs as early as 2400 BCE, and it is possible that the service greatly precedes that date. Similarly, there may be ancient organised systems of post houses providing mounted courier service, although sources vary as to precisely who initiated
176-552: The Holy Roman Empire . The British Postal Museum claims that the oldest functioning post office in the world is on High Street in Sanquhar , Scotland . The post office has functioned continuously since 1712, during which horses and stagecoaches were used to carry mail. Rural parts of Canada in the 19th century utilised the way office system. Villagers could leave their letters at the way office which were then taken to
198-931: The United States , this often led to smaller communities being renamed after their post offices, particularly after the Post Office Department began to require that post office names not be duplicated within a state . The term "post-office" has been in use since the 1650s, shortly after the legalisation of private mail services in England in 1635. In early modern England, post riders — mounted couriers —were placed, or "posted", every few hours along post roads at posting houses (also known as post houses) between major cities, or " post towns ". These stables or inns permitted important correspondence to travel without delay. In early America, post offices were also known as stations. This term, as well as
220-477: The 2000 A.D., post offices would collect fees for radio licenses, recruitment for government jobs, and the operation of public call telephone (PCO) booths. Postmen would deliver letters, money orders, and parcels to places that are within the assigned area of a particular post office. Each Indian post office is assigned a unique six-digit code called the Postal Index Number , or PIN. Each post office
242-582: The Marinette post office moved to Youngstown , Arizona, marking the beginning of the end for the small town. Twenty-three years later, the Boswells would once again sell the land. In 1959, Del E. Webb purchased the Marinette Ranch in order to construct the beginnings of his new master planned retirement community and rename it Sun City . Today, you can still find some traces and references to
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#1732781170397264-580: The advent of private courier companies in the 1990s. It is run by the Indian government's Department of Posts. India Post accepts and delivers inland letters, postcards, parcels, postal stamps, and money orders (money transfers). Few post offices in India offer speed post (fast delivery) and payments or bank savings services. It is also uncommon for Indian post offices to sell insurance policies or accept payment for electricity, landline telephone, or gas bills. Until
286-555: The county in the northeast corner of Wisconsin, U.S. Other uses [ edit ] Marinette (Vodou) , a cruel and vicious loa (spirit) in Haitian Vodou Marinette Dupain-Cheng , a.k.a. Ladybug, the female title character of the French animated series Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir Marinette Pichon (born in 1975), a French football player Marinette Yacht (1954–1991),
308-411: The land for its agricultural production. The town existed until 1957, when the post office serving Marinette was moved to Youngtown . The place where Marinette once was later became the site of Del Webb Corporation 's Sun City, Arizona . In 1892, two men from Wisconsin, R.P. Davie and a business partner, chose to invest in 640 adjoining acres each. A section of railroad track on a corner of one of
330-499: The nearest post office, as well as pick up their mail from the way office. In parts of Europe, special postal censorship offices existed to intercept and censor mail. In France, such offices were known as cabinets noirs . In many jurisdictions, mailboxes and post office boxes have long been in widespread use for drop-off and pickup (respectively) of mail and small packages outside post offices or when offices are closed. Germany's national postage system Deutsche Post introduced
352-469: The old town. At Grand Avenue and 105th Avenue, a historical marker was placed to remember and explain a brief history of the town. The Marinette Recreation Center in Sun City, is also named after the former town. Post office Before the advent of postal codes and the post office, postal systems would route items to a specific post office for receipt or delivery. During the 19th century in
374-602: The other providing sturdy oxen for bulk shipments. The Byzantine historian Procopius , though not unbiased, records the Cursus Publicus system remained largely intact until it was dismantled in the Byzantine empire by the emperor Justinian in the 6th century. The Princely House of Thurn and Taxis family initiated regular mail service from Brussels in the 16th century , directing the Imperial Post of
396-1136: The practice. In the Persian Empire , a Chapar Khaneh system existed along the Royal Road . Similar postage systems were established in India and China by the Mauryan and Han dynasties in the 2nd century BCE. The Roman historian Suetonius credited Augustus with regularising the Roman transportation and courier network, the Cursus Publicus . Local officials were obliged to provide couriers who would be responsible for their message's entire course. Locally maintained post houses ( Latin : stationes ) privately owned rest houses ( Latin : mansiones ) and were obliged or honored to care for couriers along their way. The Roman emperor Diocletian later established two parallel systems: one providing fresh horses or mules for urgent correspondence and
418-510: The sections, made the investment more advantageous. The two men negotiated to build a water stop on their land, naming it “Marinette” after their home town in Wisconsin. The town would grow over the next several years with the construction of homes, a general store, and eventually a post office in 1912. The more than 1200 acres sat between the Agua Fría River and New River, making the land easily irrigated for crops. Davie developed
440-438: The term "post house", fell from use as horse and coach services were replaced by railways , aircraft , and automobiles . The term "post office" usually refers to government postal facilities providing customer service. " General Post Office " is sometimes used for the national headquarters of a postal service, even if the building does not provide customer service. A postal facility that is used exclusively for processing mail
462-501: The title Marinette . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marinette&oldid=1243622359 " Categories : Disambiguation pages French feminine given names Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Marinette, Arizona Marinette
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#1732781170397484-612: Was a ghost town in Maricopa County, Arizona , located just northwest of Peoria, Arizona , along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway . The site was promoted in the early 20th century for production of citrus fruit, apricots, olives, and other crops. The town was purchased by the Southwest Cotton company, a Goodyear subsidiary, in 1920. Throughout the late 40s and 50s the J. G. Boswell Company owned much of
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