Word: mail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boston Post Office Department officials today released a notice urging the public to mail their Christmas cards and packages early this year. Special days have been set aside for handling mail to various areas of the country...
...order to reach their destination in time, air-mail letters to the West Coast should be posted before December 19, to the Middle West and South before December 21, and to New England also before December...
Post office officials in Cambridge suggested that students from the East hand in home addresses so that mail and packages can be forwarded lest it pile up here during the Christmas vacation...
...Paris, thousands of workers went to their jobs on bicycles, in private cars, in big blue sightseeing buses mobilized by the government. One energetic bank clerk arrived on roller skates. Across France, food shops, department stores, restaurants were open, mail was delivered. One of the Socialists' own cabinet ministers called the strike a "fiasco." But the Communists had different ideas on what was good advertising: they triumphantly labeled the strike a succès éclatant...
Deadheads. On the other hand, the railroads were not doing so badly on passengers as the figures seemed to show. Of 1948's loss on passenger business, fully two-thirds-$373 million-was incurred by hauling mail, express and baggage cars, rather than passengers. Many railroaders think that baggage cars-holdovers from the days when most travelers carried trunks-should be abolished, and mail pay increased. The railroads got only $26 million last year for carrying 95% of U.S. non-local first-class mail, while the airlines got $46 million for the remaining...