Word: mailman
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...knew it would be a monkey. It didn't bother me. All I wanted to do was to survive. I feel wonderful." Feeling that way, Davis went home for Christmas with his four children, ages 13 to 19. "I'll just sit back and wait for the mailman," he said. With a Government pension he will no longer have to load bananas...
Since 1958, the post office's Safety and Health Division has been experimenting with various deterrents. Candy pacifiers were gratefully chomped by attacking dogs, but after the appetizers disappeared, the mailman still took it on the shin...
Christmas baking, cleaning and present wrapping were forgotten when the mailman delivered Coach Lombardi on the cover of TIME...
...Roof. Part of the strain, of course, is financial; the checkbook never seems ready for the unexpected demands. The well-in-advance, all-too-legibly-signed Christmas card "from your garbage man" and "your mailman," the armies of elevator operators and invisible attendants that materialize for apartment dwellers, the soaring cost of trees and festivities -this is only part of it. There is the problem of the Rich Relation who sprays the family with costly presents-how much reciprocity is necessary? There is the problem of the Marginal Pal who somewhere along the way has moved from the list...
...disguised strike was organized by the Union of Post Office workers (170,000 members) in protest against the government's anti-inflationary ban on wage raises for public employees. Post office employees earn 3.5% less than industrial workers (a mailman averages $30 weekly), but Postmaster General Reginald Bevins flatly refused an increase, offered only to study the subject. To make up for the slowdown, he ordered postal employees to work overtime, but it was like trying to melt a glacier. At Mount Pleasant. London's main sorting office, the backlog rose to 5,000,000 letters. Railway stations...