Word: postalized
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...letter was never answered; it was never delivered. Somewhere between Vermont and Baltimore it fell victim to one of the mail robberies that plagued the early days of U.S. Postal Service...
...Postal inspectors took over the letters, hid the rest of their contents under the old rule of sanctity of the mail. Now would begin a probably futile search for the heirs who were rightful owners of the letters and their stamps, some of which might now be worth more than...
...doubtful that postal records would still show where or how the robbery took place. Best clue (found in the Free Library of Philadelphia): a copy of the Philadelphia Public Ledger of Nov. 12, 1852, which recorded the arrest of one John W. Comegys in connection with mail robberies between Philadelphia and Baltimore...
...Nairobi, several copies at the Army post office, several copies care of the U.S. Consul at Nairobi, and a number of copies came to me at the Stanley Hotel, but hardly a weekly issue was missing, which is a very fine tribute to British shipping and maintenance of postal services in these difficult times...
Last week postal inspectors nabbed George Apley's successor, got him indicted for using the mails to defraud "a certain class of persons, to wit, unmarried females." He was a tall, dashing, 40-year-old Back Bay Bostonian (real name he withheld from the police) and he was accused of having turned his correspondence with intellectual females into courtships, his courtships into loans to pay off a mortgage on a nonexistent warehouse in Fairfield, Conn...