Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long-established Greek-American institutions have provided vital grass-roots support, stimulating the mail campaigns. One is the Greek Orthodox Church, headed in the U.S. by Archbishop lakovos, who set up 50 state committees after the Turkish invasion to raise money for Greek-Cypriot refugees (collections so far: $1.3 million) and to urge letters to Congressmen. Iakovos has personally pressed the issue with President Ford, Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy and Democratic Presidential Contenders Henry Jackson and Lloyd Bentsen. The other is AHEPA (American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association), the Greek-American fraternal order, which has 400 chapters and about...
Postal rates, moreover, have risen and are still rising so rapidly that many users will soon be priced out of the market. Major voices in America's free press, among the nearly 10,000 magazines and hundreds of mail-delivered newspapers, are threatened with extinction. Two questions must now be asked. What went wrong? And more important: What kind of postal service does the U.S. need...
Already the spiral is beginning. Since 1969, because of high rates and poor service, the Postal Service has lost about one-third of its parcel post business to private companies. This year, for the first time since the Depression, total mail volume-not just parcel post-is down. Reason: rising rates in a time of economic recession. Postmaster General Bailar, along with nearly everyone else who has studied the problem, warns that the vastly higher rates proposed by Wenner would shrink volume still further. Yet, adds Bailar, "the fixed costs of postal service would remain," and thus rates would have...
...suggestion in Congress is to turn the Postal Service completely over to private enterprise, making it either a regulated monopoly, like the telephone industry, or setting up several competing postal systems. Illinois Representative Philip Crane has even introduced a bill to end the Government monopoly of first-class mail and open it up to private competition. Such systems might work in heavily populated areas, but there would be no profit in serving the rest of the country. Congress would then have to provide big subsidies to serve less populated areas or allow the private postal systems to charge much more...
During those months, Elton spotted an ad in a trade paper, placed by a record-company executive who asked artists and composers to send samples of their work by mail. The executive matched some music written by Elton with lyrics Taupin had sent in. He introduced them, but then decided not to hire the team he had created...