Word: mailmen
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Hardened by the wind and ice that go with a Boston winter, the mailmen have managed to build up remarkable resistance to relatively mild cold shoulders. Also in their favor is the fact that they bring draft board notices, bills, checks, and the like. When the mailman shoves his foot in a University door, he is well aware of the importance of the U.S. Mail to the student he solicits...
...Most mailmen do not rest their pleas merely on the sinister threat of "no sale, no mail." They usually remark that "everyone else in the entry bought a ticket and don't you realize that your small deflated dollar is going to help old retired mailmen who need it much more than you do, I'm sure." If one stands still and says nothing, the mailman will also stand and wait. If one says he has no dollar to spare just now, the mailman will plunk his ticket on the nearest flat surface with the promise to come back...
...this is not to say that the postmen don't need benefit dances, and that those who feel like buying tickets shouldn't. But the mailmen, under University regulation and under a University--Post Office agreement, do not belong in rooms, selling tickets. Therefore, if with tickets instead of letters, they appear at your door, you will be quite justified in slamming...
...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 "to the tune of several hundred million dollars a year." Opposition to raising rates has come from "the slick-magazine publishers," said Truman...
Weber and Hayek rounded up a nucleus of professionals. For the rest, says Weber, "we took in everyone who could creep and crawl." The non-pros include mailmen, policemen, engineers, salesmen and a chiropodist. One musician, an accountant, rides his motorcycle 30 miles from his Watertown job, wearing an old Air Force flying suit over his tuxedo, to play. Until she retired to have her fourth baby, his wife used to ride with him, clutching her cello. Now, at their five concerts a year in the Soo-seat Waukesha High School auditorium, Waukeshans hear creditable and sometimes even polished performances...