Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Radcliffe seniors have received notices in the mail announcing the fund drive
...same time, manpower shortages caused by the mobilization have brought a drastic decline in public services. Mail deliveries have slowed; telephone service, disrupted by unusually heavy winter rains, is erratic. Most people have found it impossible even to get the telephone repair number to answer...
...only way to look at this is that we're running the Postal Service like a business organization." Critics point out that the service retains nonbusinesslike features; for instance, it charges the same flat rate to mail a letter across the street or across the country, despite the widely differing costs of each operation...
Beeping Sound. The dream mailboy is a completely automated cart with 20 mail compartments. It runs on four rubber wheels and is driven by a battery-powered electric motor. Electrical sensors in the cart pick up low-frequency radio signals from wires that are strung under the carpets along the desired route. Following their path, the 500-lb. robot stops when its photoelectric sensing system picks up signal lights bounced off reflective tiles strategically placed on corridor walls at knee level...
...young entrepreneur's career began at age 14, when his mother, who owned a corset store in Brooklyn, cut off his allowance. He took odd jobs as a theater usher and a mail clerk, decided to skip college and become a talent agent. Geffen falsely claimed a drama degree in order to land a job in the William Morris Agency's mail room. "I came in an hour before anyone else so I could check all the incoming mail," he recalls. "I was just trying to intercept the letter from U.C.L.A. saying they had never heard...