Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Postage Due? The U.S. Post Office has lost money for most of its 157 years. Recently, politicians have been laying much of the blame on the costs of carrying second-class mail, which includes magazines and newspapers. Last week President Truman himself teed off on magazine and newspaper publishers before an audience of postmasters, most of them political appointees. Harry Truman, who has joined Congress in asking raises for the mailmen despite the $500 million-a-year postal deficit, laid the "biggest part of the deficit" on the low rates on newspapers, magazines and advertising matter, a subsidy...
...Hole. Last March, Postmaster General Jesse Donaldson told Congress that the cost of handling the mail has increased by a billion dollars since 1945, and that rates would have to go up. He proposed to raise $271,320,000 by increasing most rates, and doubling the rate for second-class mail. When the Senate passed a postal bill three weeks ago, it shaved these increases, boosting newspaper rates by 10% a year for three years, magazines by 20% a year for three years, or 60% altogether...
Elusive Figures. Actually, no one knows how much the Post Office really loses-or makes-on carrying publications. Its own figures show a $192,500,000 loss in 1950 on second-class mail. Only a little more than half was due to daily and weekly newspapers and more than i ,000 general magazines. But the huge loss is based on the Post Office's intricate system of "cost ascertainment," which charges off many other services to second-class mail costs. Example: in 1949, a third of the cost of operating Rural Free Delivery was charged off to second-class...
...also served five terms in the United States House of Representatives and one term as Governor of Massachusetts. In 1947, while a member of Congress, he served a term of five months in the Federal Penitentiary at Danbury, Connecti-cut for mail fraud...
...five candidates in its mayoralty race. The two principles are present Mayor John B. Hynes, who has been backed since his first election two years ago by many Boston reform groups, and former Mayor James Michael Curley, who served a term in the Federal Penitentiary at Danbury, Connecticut, for mail fraud...