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A freight rate (historically and in ship chartering simply freight [1]) is a price at which a certain cargo is delivered from one point to another. The price depends on the form of the cargo, the mode of transport (truck, ship, train, aircraft), the weight of the cargo, and the distance to the delivery destination.
The TGV La Poste were dedicated trainsets for high-speed freight and mail transportation by French railway company SNCF on behalf of the French postal carrier La Poste. The top speed of this TGV Sud-Est derivate was 270 km/h (168 mph), making them the fastest freight trains in the world. [citation needed] They were withdrawn in 2015. [1]
In 2015 La Poste invested €22 million into Stuart Delivery before it was officially launched. [17] In 2017 La Poste brought Stuart Delivery owing 100% of the shares [18] Stuart Delivery is a subsidiary of the DPD group and is operating in 86 cities across the UK, Italy, France, Spain, Poland, and Portugal. [19]
Poste restante (French pronunciation: [pɔst ʁɛstɑ̃t], "waiting mail"), also known as general delivery in North American English, is a service where the post office holds the mail until the recipient calls for it. It is a common destination for mail for people who are visiting a particular location and have no need, or no way, of having ...
L'Affranchissement was a rationalist free-thinking association in Belgium, founded in Brussels in 1854. [1] The founding of the association was assisted by political exiles from France. L'Affranchissement was the first organization of its kind in the country. [1] It recruited its followers from artisans, intellectuals and the lower middle classes.