Word: postalized
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...credit side, the foreign powers brought China its first steamship, its first locomotive, modern science and modern education. They established a postal service, did a superb job of clearing away navigational hazards and charting the Chinese coasts...
...Said an officer of the Postal Service: "I know for a fact that in the middle of a battle, with stuff dropping all around them, men will put the mail call ahead of the mess call...
...stumped. As Christmas approached, U.S. soldiers were being flooded with the greatest mass of mail in history-in six weeks 14,000,000 lb. of it (including parcel post), enough to fill a medium-sized cargo ship or 2,000 cargo planes. In the last few weeks the Army Postal Service has delivered 11,000,000 letters a week...
Some promoters have seized upon the commercial aspects of the Army Postal Service, established radio clubs whose members pledge themselves to write letters to soldiers every week in return for lapel pins. Last week the War Department was looking for a way to crack down on such schemes, to make sure soldiers got the letters they wanted to get instead of just letters. Meantime, the perspiring Army Postal Service continued to slog through higher & higher mountains of mail. Only one thing was constant: 10% of all overseas letters were misdirected...
...addition the Student Council has to pay for its telephone, stationery, and postal supplies. Roughly about five per cent of the money collected from the undergraduates is used for the running expenses of the Council and its committee...