Word: mailbox
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that stuff mattered when I got this letter. The ACU is the American Conservative Union. Maybe it's because I keep my politics quiet; maybe it's because I wear dresses sometimes; maybe they just send these letters to all potential DAR members. Anyhow, it was in my mailbox at 10:30 this morning. They had even addressed it personally. It began...
...ransom note was dropped in the Lampoon mailbox yesterday, Lampoon sources said. "Yes Lampies, your goose has been tooked and you were sitting ducks while I was a robin. Aren't you blushing crimson at this sad discovery--you turkeys," the letter said. The note did not name a ransom price but hinted that a proposal might be forthcoming...
...July 1972. An unstamped note was slipped into the mailbox at McCord's house in Rockville, Md. It was signed "Jack," and came from John Caulfield, a former White House staff assistant who had worked under John Ehrlichman, mainly as a liaison with law enforcement agencies. The note suggested three times at which McCord could go to a pay phone "on Route 355 near the Blue Fountain Inn" and expect a call from Caulfield. McCord went to the booth, got a call from a man with a "New York accent" who said: "Jack will want to talk with...
When his new car stalled one night near a mailbox in Queens, N.Y., William Schrager, 30, idled the engine for a while and then started driving slowly. Seeing the suspicious-seeming car with its short, dark-haired driver, two policemen in a cruising patrol car stopped him. A man of his description was being sought in connection with a series of sexual assaults. Schrager showed some identification, but he had no papers to prove his claim that he was an assistant district attorney. The cops decided to take...
Under federal law, only a USPS postman can put mail into a home mailbox. So the private carriers often hire housewives or students, for about $1.60 an hour, to stuff their clients' mail into plastic bags and hang the bags on homeowners' doorknobs. One of the biggest of the private postal services offices, Oklahoma City-based Independent Postal System of America, Inc., began operations five years ago. Last year it deployed 5,000 full-time carriers and 13,000 part-timers through 32 states east of the Rockies to deliver mail for clients who paid $3.5 million...