Word: postalized
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Finally, however, its casualty report was sent on to the Pentagon. The news story, not the Army postal stamp, had been wrong. Last week the Army dutifully sent the Carters a telegram officially informing them of their son's death...
Progress. In Washington, D.C., the monthly Postal Record of the National Association of Letter Carriers noted that although it took the fastest pony express something more than nine hours to deliver a letter from St. Joseph, Mo. to Kansas City, "the modern, streamlined postal service" does the job in two or three days...
...College dormitories and other residential sections, of Cambridge will be halved to one a day in about a week, according to James F. Danehy, superintendent of the Cambridge 38 Post Office. The curtailment is in line with the Postmaster General's order for it nation-wide out in postal service...
...chief reason for these chipper tidings from the 99-year-old company was a sweeping mechanization program, which has been pushed close to completion by lean, indefatigable President Walter Peter Marshall. Onetime executive vice president of Postal Telegraph, Inc., 49-year-old Walter Marshall went over to Western Union when the two companies were merged in 1943, stepped into the top executive job when President Joseph L. Egan died in December 1948. The company had already started mechanizing but it was Marshall who pushed through an $80 million appropriation to do it fast...
...also want to be the U.S. "chosen instrument" for worldwide cable communications. They argue that Western Union should get rid of its cable business, which was a condition to the Postal Telegraph merger. Western Union contends that it needs the overseas revenue, plus a clear field in the U.S. telegram business, before it can be sure of a profitable living in competition with its remaining rivals, the airmail letter and the telephone...