Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...million Americans, one of the most anticipated pieces of mail every month is the sturdy brown envelope bearing a Social Security check. But mailing the money creates problems. About 35,000 checks a year get stolen. And the amount of clerical work is overwhelming. Says Treasury Official Les Plumly: "We have to print them, stuff them, seal them and mail them. If we don't find some other way, the sheer volume will sink the system...
...starting on the West Coast in August and moving along to the East Coast by October, the Treasury will give Social Security recipients the option of having their checks sent directly to their banks. Then, to grapple with the mountain of mail to banks, the Treasury plans next year to introduce "electronic funds transfer" (EFT). Through the marvels of computers and electronics, money will automatically be credited to the bank account of any Social Security beneficiary who wants it that...
Ford's office is inundated by requests for appearances anywhere and everywhere. Congressmen plead and threaten for audiences. And in the mail the other day came a dispatch from Oriana Fallaci, the Italian journalist who has performed verbal lobotomies on many of the world's great men, the newswoman who warmly coaxed Henry Kissinger into describing himself as a kind of diplomatic Lone Ranger. Oriana Fallaci has found a place in her crowded schedule to request an interview with Jerry Ford...
...They returned only after the Canadian Parliament imposed a settlement and after Japan and China had shifted some orders for grain-Canada's most important export-to the U.S. and elsewhere. The national postal system was weakened so badly by periodic rotating work stoppages last year that some mail sent in November is only now being delivered. Sorters in Montreal post offices continue to stage wildcat strikes in hopes of winning a gargantuan 71% pay increase and halting automation...
...December 1972, 800 Andover students received mail with a Holyoke Center return address. What did the 800 envelopes contain...