soe Archives | Jedidiah https://jedidiah.org.za/tag/soe/ Raising a Standard of Excellence & Significance Thu, 11 Jun 2020 19:49:21 +0000 en-ZA hourly 1 Child in the mail https://jedidiah.org.za/character/child-in-the-mail/ https://jedidiah.org.za/character/child-in-the-mail/#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2020 19:49:21 +0000 https://jedidiah.org.za/?p=1520 Can you believe it? A hundred years ago Mr. Merritt Chance the postmaster of the post office in Washington D.C. received three applications to post children by mail under the same regulations that permitted live animals to be sent.

In June 1920 Mr. John Koons, the Assistant Postmaster General of the United States answered a request for an interpretation of postal regulations and then ruled that children could not be sent through the mail by parcel post. Koons, reviewing the regulation, pointed out that parcel post was limited to “harmless ... continue reading

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Economic outlook for 2020

At present the economic outlook for 2020 does not look very promising. In government there is just so many controversies, infighting and division mixed with ideology that good governance does not even come close to the parliament’s agenda. At present they are just trying to put out ... continue reading

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