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...telephone in case anyone in the family is kidnapped. The Department of Labor has sleuths who track down immigration irregularities, turn up alien wrongdoers. Famed for their relentlessness are the Post Office Department inspectors, prepared to spend a day or a lifetime bringing to justice mail robbers, perpetrators of postal frauds. The Treasury has a bureau of customs to prevent smuggling, a bureau of narcotics to combat dope peddlers. Its income tax intelligence unit ferrets out tax evaders. There are special agents in the Department of Agriculture to investigate violations of the Pure Food & Drugs Act, in the State Department...
After tortured weeks of criticism and recrimination, the Post Office Department was ready to hand the airmail back to private enterprise, thus relieving the Army of its ill-starred postal duties.* Pending permanent airmail legislation Postmaster General Farley invited private carriers to bid on three-month renewable contracts for 17 routes comprising some 18,000 miles of the 24,000 miles flown before the Feb. 9 cancellation order. Bids were to be submitted within 15 days by companies able to begin operations 30 days after obtaining contracts. Rates must be no higher than 45? per airplane mile...
Because of the necessity of effecting economics in the local postal system, Harvard men will no longer enjoy the benefits of an afternoon mail delivery on Wednesday. No longer will they spend that afternoon enraptured by the honeyed words of an epistle from "her". In vain will they stand watch by their respective letter boxes waiting for "that" letter. Stern economy has decreed that it shall not come...
Announcement has been made by the officers of the Military Science Department of a series of "postal" pistol matches with other universities which have been scheduled for the Harvard R.O.T.C. pistol team, under the direction of Major H. Crampton Jones. The matches are shot off at the two competing universities by teams of unlimited size, the five best scores are selected...
...Through Postal Telegraph, Chicago University's President Robert Maynard Hutchins three weeks ago had a birthday message sung over the telephone to his wife. Postal Telegraph called the service "irregular," stopped it. Through Western Union one can send any of twelve prepared birthday greetings, have notes, letters, orangeade, sandwiches delivered by messenger, subscribe to TIME. Last week Western Union added a new service when it agreed to accept packages at all of its offices for shipment through the Railway Express Agency. At no extra cost Western Union messengers will call for packages up to the value of $250, take...