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Similar services have sprung up in Charlotte, N.C., Northern Illinois and throughout the Midwest. In Northern California, National Postal Service last year delivered 84 million advertising circulars and other third-class mail for J.C. Penney, Montgomery Ward and Sears, Roebuck, among other customers. N.P.S. was paid $33 per thousand pieces of mail, about $17 less than the USPS charges...
...magazine to its readers. Two copies distributed for a nickel -the greatest bargain in power since the Tennessee Valley Authority. A steal? Postal authorities think so, and they say that it is time to stop the ripoff. So, in addition to increasing the cost of first-and third-class mail, they are currently escalating second-class (magazine and newspaper) rates by an average 127% over five years (see THE PRESS). If a raise anywhere near that size takes effect, nickel power will end-and with it, a profound phase of American history...
...advertising rates of Chicago's Field Enterprises, but turned down the bid of Virginia's Bassett Furniture Industries to boost prices by 1.8% on the grounds of "insufficient justification." New applicants for price increases included the U.S. Postal Service, which requested a 23.9% hike in third-class mail. All together, more than 160 applications are pending before the commission. Cost of Living Council Director Donald Rumsfeld said that a study of 64 of them showed that requests averaged 3.3%, a level that "does not in and of itself pose any threat...
...Martha gave me hell," admitted Attorney General John Mitchell, after President Nixon did not nominate a woman to the Supreme Court. "I sure did," chirped Martha Mitchell. "Why, I've been suffering to get a woman on the court. I'm sick and tired of women being third-class citizens. I heard Mrs. Nixon was so mad she was packing her bags. Well, I got a lead on her. I packed earlier, so I could go over and help...
David Keyser, a spokesman for the group, said yesterday the action is "designed to bring before the public the fact that GI's are third-class citizens, denied the right to know, to receive uncensored information...