Word: postalized
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...years the Administration has been trying to raise the first-class-mail rate as part of its drive to end the postal deficit, which is running over $650 million a year. Last week, thanks to unexpected party solidarity among the Republicans (only two G.O.P. defections, v. five party-line-crossing Democrats), the Senate voted 49 to 42 to raise the rate on in-town letters to 4?, to raise out-of-town mail...
Ever since the first examination of Post Office expenses was made in 1926, first class mail has consistently paid far more than its cost. The rate hike proposal recently approved by the Senate will increase even more the proportion of postal service supported by first class revenue. In effect, it will give a larger discount rate to the major magazine concerns and the advertisers who flood the post office with "junk mail...
...main reason for the rate hike is a Post Office deficit which is now approaching $1 billion. The various increases will make up this deficit and will also finance a projected pay raise for postal employees. The raises, however, do not constitute a fair adjustment of postal rates...
...total replaces the former record of 1411 scored against Bowdoin in a postal match Dec. 11. High scorer in the Invitational Meet was Dick Murphy with 286 points. Captain Lance Fair followed with 285 points. Bill Garrison shot third with 282, leading Ron Simon at 281 and John Phelps...
...staked his career on his faith that Moslems could live as equals in Hindu India now charged that India had "smashed the confidence of the Kashmir people." He accused Nehru's government of discriminating against Kashmir's Moslem majority by denying them army promotions and postal jobs, of setting up a central intelligence bureau in Srinagar to bribe and corrupt his officials, of sabotaging his land-reform program. "I did not betray India," he roared. "It was India that betrayed...