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  2. Primary care specialties saw a slight increase in appointment cancellation rates from 8.3% in 2020 to 10% in 2022. “Practices already operate on very small margins,” he said. “There isn’t ...

  3. Cancelled-to-order - Wikipedia

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    Similar to cancel to order is postmarked to order which occurs when the stamps are purchased at full value, placed on a piece of mail, and then cancelled by the clerk on request. The mail then is handed back to the customer instead of travelling through the post. [2] This is sometimes called favour cancellation, or hand-back. Some countries ...

  4. Cancellation (mail) - Wikipedia

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    The first machine flag cancel (preceded by fancy cancels of flags) was used in Boston in November–December 1894. [6] Handstamped cancellations are cancellations added by means of a hand stamping device. Highway post office cancels refers to cancels added in transit by portable mail-handling equipment for sorting mail in trucks. [11]

  5. NHS Blood and Transplant - Wikipedia

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    NHS Blood and Transplant is an executive special health authority of the United Kingdom's Department of Health and Social Care.It was established on 1 October 2005 to take over the responsibilities of two separate NHS agencies: UK Transplant (now renamed Organ Donation and Transplantation), founded by Dr. Geoffrey Tovey in 1972, [3] and the National Blood Service [4] (now renamed Blood Donation).

  6. Machine postmark - Wikipedia

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    1929 machine cancellation used to cancel 1d stamp on first flight cover from Nassau to Miami. A machine postmark or machine cancellation is a postmark or cancellation on mail that is applied by a mechanical device rather than with the use of a handstamp. Nearly all machine-cancellation devices apply both postmark and cancellation simultaneously.

  7. Railway post office - Wikipedia

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    Demo of the mail hook pulling a mail bag on Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad #1923 at the Illinois Railway Museum.. In Canada and the United States, a railway post office, commonly abbreviated as RPO, was a railroad car that was normally operated in passenger service and used specifically for staff to sort mail en route, in order to speed delivery.

  8. January 1913 - Wikipedia

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    The Texas Legislature did not approve of the appointment of Johnston by Texas Governor Oscar Branch Colquitt and selected Morris Sheppard to replace him. [27] His 29-day term was the second shortest in Senate's history, behind John N. Heiskell who served 24 days as U.S. Senator from Arkansas .

  9. White House Presidential Personnel Office - Wikipedia

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    The White House Personnel Office (WHPO) was created by Frederick V. Malek in 1971 to standardize the White House's hiring process. [9] [10] In 1974, President Gerald Ford renamed the WHPO to the Presidential Personnel Office (PPO) and restructured it to focus more on presidential appointments, relying more on department heads to secure non-presidential appointments in their departments.