The Post Office Book: Mail and How It Moves
The Post Office Book: Mail and How It Moves
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HarperCollins
Annotation: A colorful description of how the Post Office works from pickup to delivery.
Genre: [Social sciences]
 
Reviews: 4
Catalog Number: #4342116
Format: Paperback
Common Core/STEAM: Common Core Common Core
Publisher: HarperCollins
Copyright Date: 1982
Edition Date: 1982 Release Date: 06/01/86
ISBN: 0-06-446029-0
ISBN 13: 978-0-06-446029-3
Dewey: 383
Language: English
Reviews:
Publishers Weekly (Fri Oct 06 00:00:00 CDT 2023)

Gibbons takes readers step-by-step through the mailing process,from the moment the letter is dropped into a mailbox until it reaches its final destination. She includes a glossary and a brief history of message-sending. (5-8)

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Publishers Weekly (Fri Oct 06 00:00:00 CDT 2023)
Wilson's Children's Catalog
Word Count: 352
Reading Level: 3.6
Interest Level: K-3
Accelerated Reader: reading level: 3.6 / points: 0.5 / quiz: 7589 / grade: Lower Grades
Reading Counts!: reading level:2.9 / points:1.0 / quiz:Q09307
Lexile: AD840L

Learn where our mail goes and how it gets there in this classic nonfiction picture book by Washington Post/Children’s Book Guild Award winner Gail Gibbons.

Do you ever mail a letter and wonder what happens to it after you drop it in the box?

Read all about the post office and learn how letters are weighed, sorted, transported, culled, canceled, coded, binned, boxed, and sorted once again.

Find out how people and machines work together to deliver the letters you send.


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