Word: postalized
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...Western-style dress to give his State-of-the-Union message to Congress, President Johnson urges that the moon be renamed "Kennedy" and then invites all legislators and their wives to a "real slambang" pit barbecue on the White House Lawn. The Bell Telephone Company announces that five-digit postal ZIP codes will be substituted for three-digit area codes "in order to lessen the number of codes a person must remember...
...philatelist. In the next 50 years, he built one of the finest U.S. collections of postage stamps ever assembled. He specialized in blocks of rare stamps-four or more stamps still connected by original perforation. There was a block of 16 50 stamps dating from 1847 (the first regular postal issue in the U.S.) in mint (uncanceled) condition, valued at $24,000, and several blocks of 1901 Pan American World Exposition stamps with inverted centers, worth a total...
...mood to be generous. The hole in the Wall is a tiny one by any measurement. Only those West Berliners who have immediate relatives in the Communist part of the city may pass through the five special entry points designated by the East Germans. Passes, issued by East German postal officials, are good through Jan. 5, but only from 7 a.m. to midnight, except on New Year's Day when the pass holders may stagger back as late as 5 a.m. Though some 800,000 West Berliners qualify for the passes, many of them are Flüchtlinge-refugees...
...typical frontpage banner headline in the Hialeah-Miami Springs News-Shopper (distribution: 101,000) reads BRAKE JOB $27.95. And even where the giveaway paper has turned journalistic, its motives often have little to do with professional dedication. In many cases, the spur has been provided by new postal rates that discriminate against junk mail-the classification that fits free-delivery newspapers. By claiming paid circulation, the giveaways that do not depend solely on carrier-boy delivery can escape into the less confiscatory rate for second-class mail. This takes some doing: the Post Office requires that such a paper sell...
...University is unsure what aspects of the scheme are actually illegal. It is illegal to send chain letters through the mail, but the postal regulations apparently do not cover the saving bonds. The letter itself warns, "Send only the bonds themselves through the mail. Do not mail the list of names...