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...penny post card died yesterday as President Truman signed a bill to replace it with a two-cent post card and raise postal rates $117,000,000 a year...
...meeting time, as a result, almost 500 Munjoy Hill residents had crowded into the school auditorium and 100 had been turned away. The excitement began almost as soon as the city manager, the councilmen and other officials sat down on the stage. One Bob Rowe, a middle-aged postal clerk who wildly opposes the city government, rose and said: "It will be proved that Munjoy Hill has been neglected." He heckled persistently. Finally the crowd cried: "Sit down." But a fat man named William Holland was cheered when he rose, knocking a fellow citizen's hat awry, and teed...
...believe a really ingenious forger capable of almost anything, but I simply do not credit your story [TIME, Sept. 24] that "many of the money orders were small, and the amounts were often changed by clever forgers, e.g., $1.37 to $1,379.44." Any such tidy kiting of U.S. Postal Money Orders is completely outside the realm of possibility, inasmuch as the absolute maximum value of each...
Farmers' Friend. Last week, when the House took up the postal bill, the press found many friends. North Carolina's Harold Cooley wasn't "particularly interested in the postage paid by such magazines as LIFE and FORTUNE and the Saturday Evening Post and all the other big magazines, but I am definitely interested in the welfare and continued publication of such magazines as the Progressive Farmer, the Capper's Farmer . . . whose major editorial program is the dissemination of information . . . regarding the work and the interests of the farmer . . . They cannot possibly pay the 20% increase...
...Included in 1950's losses: on third-class, $135,872,341; domestic air mail, $35,501,861; fourth-class (books, parcel post, etc.), $77,138,987; foreign mail, $84,684,189; money orders, $23,305,124; Government official mail, $37,265,145; non-postal services, $21,317,281; retroactive payments to railroads...