Word: postalized
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...Postmaster General's eleven-member Stamp Advisory Council, which is trying to avoid turkeys like the 1948 stamp celebrating the poultry industry. Still, the department must occasionally wince and yield to pressures from Capitol Hill. In 1966, Louisiana's Representative Jimmy Morrison, chairman of the House postal-rate subcommittee, wanted a stamp commemorating the Great River Road that runs from Canada to New Orleans along the Mississippi-and right through his district. Larry O'Brien, needing Morrison's support for a parcel-post reform bill, ordered ,the stamp. O'Brien got his bill and Morrison...
...sources high in the U.S. Post Office revealed today that all mail and correspondence scheduled for delivery this week to Truman was being re-routed from Missouri to the South Postal Annex in Boston...
While earlier proposals for reorganizing the postal service have been shelved, this one-developed...
...Brien study group-has some chance of fruition. The initial reaction from Congress, the postal unions and major postal users was generally favorable. President Johnson has accepted O'Brien's blueprint, at least to the extent of testing the wind, and last week appointed a commission to study...
Meanwhile, the Administration must make the present system work. Last week Johnson sent to Congress his recommendations for increases in both postal charges and employee compensation. First-class mail would go up 10 an ounce, while the cost of second, third-and fourth-class mail would increase between 21% and 28%.-When fully effective, the increases would bring in an additional $800 million a year. Pay for employees would...