Word: mail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...astronaut bound for the moon traverses the 240,000 miles in four days. A letter mailed from Boston to New York may take as much or more time to reach a destination only 229 miles away. In the process, it may be mangled, misdirected or destroyed. And, pace Herodotus, snow, rain, heat, gloom of night and archaic facilities continually slow, if they do not entirely stay, the U.S. mail's appointed rounds. Last week the Administration advanced a sensible if quixotic proposal to make the Post Office an efficient public service. "There is no Democratic or Republican...
Nixon's proposal could provide important benefits for the mail. The department would be freed from the shackles of political patronage, parsimonious appropriations and a jungle of congressional rules and regulations that often thwart efficiency. The reorganization would also provide a financial flexibility now sadly lacking by allowing the postal service to float bonds to pay for the estimated $5 billion-worth of plant and equipment improvements needed to achieve modernization...
...Earlier this year, an automatic mail sorter went haywire in a large Midwestern city with the result that eastbound mail was sent west. Several hundred thousand pounds of mail were shipped before the error was discovered...
However, one of the three teaching fellows who was investigated yesterday did not receive a summons from the Freund Committee. The Committee sent Offer a summons by registered mail, which he has not yet picked up at the post office...
...Social Relations Department this week decided by a narrow margin in a ballot taken through the mail to allow Soc Rel 148-149 to continue next year with control over the course remaining in the hands of the course's teaching staff...