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Postal Service....................................................................................................................3

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The list of terms.................................................................................................................5

Vocabulary.........................................................................................................................6

Questions...........................................................................................................................7

Exercise 1.International words..........................................................................................7

Exercise 2. The list of synonyms and antonyms ..............................................................8

Exercise 3. Parts of speech..............................................................................................8

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Listofreferences...............................................................................................................10

Postal Service

Historical references to the postal system in Egypt date back to about 2000 BC. Mail then transported from place to place on horseback or horse-drawn wagon. While dominated government post. In another part of the world, in China, the postal service began in the early 12th century BC. It has been used primarily for the transmission of official documents.

The Roman Empire has created the most advanced system of mail delivery that time, apart from the postal service in China. In the Roman Empire it needed a reliable connection of Rome with the governors and military officials in outlying provinces. The speed with which the government telegrams and other mail moved to the Empire, was amazing for its time. In Europe, the 19th century postal stagecoaches began to carry letters and packages, but most of the mail is still transported in the same manner as in the Roman Empire.

Since then much has changed. Today we can send our letters, also using Airmail, fastest delivery service mail.

Now almost in every city and town. If you want to mail a letter or postcard usual, you have to buy an envelope with the required label, write the address on this envelope, put it your message and send. For registered mail, letters, sent by air mail, or letter to another country, you need to buy and stick to the envelope for other brands.

If you want to send a telegram, or you can go to the nearest post or dictate it over the phone.

But if you have Internet, you do not need to go to the nearest post, you can simply connect to the Internet and use your e-mail program, send a letter or several letters to whomever you want. The only condition is that, if your recipient has a computer and the internet or not. E-mail is cheaper and comes instantly.

If you want to use the traditional method of delivery, and would like your letter arrived quickly, you can use the services of air mail or express mail.

If you want to send a parcel, you have to go to the post office to deliver your parcel postal worker who weigh its sheds and give you the necessary stamps. The amount you have to pay depends on the weight of the parcel. After the appearance of a distributed global naming system DNS, to specify the addresses were used domain names - user@example.com - user user on the machine example.com. At the same time it is redefining the concept of "drive": for mail were used dedicated servers, which have not had access to regular users (only administrators) and users to work in their cars, with the mail does not come to work the machine users and the postal server, where users collect their mail on the various network protocols (including common at present - POP3, IMAP, MAPI, Web interfaces). Along with the advent of DNS was an elaborate system of backup routes for mail and domain name in the email address is no longer the name of a specific computer, and it became a mail domain, for the service that could meet the many server (perhaps physically placed on different continents and in different organizations).

In addition, there were (and there are at the moment) and other e-mail systems, such as Netmail network FidoNET, X.400 networks X.25. Access them from the Internet and back via the mail gateway. For mail routing networks X.25 to a special DNS resource record c matches the name X25 (code 19).