Word: parcelled
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...Congressional subsidies to make up any losses, and which is protected from competition--in first-class mail by a legal prohibition of private competition, and in second-, third-, and fourth-class mail by laws against using mailboxes. In the only area in which relatively unfettered private competition is permitted--parcel post--USPS is steadily losing ground to a private company, United Parcel Service. UPS now delivers over half of all parcels mailed in the United States, at a lower cost than the USPS, while damaging less than a fourth as many items as the Postal Service...
...legislators may dispose of the land in any fashion they choose, including selling the parcel to the highest bidder...
...John Doyle, handles inquiries into the reasons for this policy. But they tell me that all you really need to know about the Zone is that it's a dangerous place, and you shouldn't be nosing around in it. It becomes clear to me that of all zones--parcel post, erogenous, no parking and what-have-you--it is least permissible to ask for the facts on this one. If the police department's activity here were less mysterious, I am warned that it would run the risk of being less effective. Security within the police van is tight...
...University leased a 13-acre parcel near the Medical School for the construction of the 774-unit mixed-income housing to the Roxbury Tenants of Harvard, independent developer H. Ralph Taylor and general contractor George Macomber in April...
...second-class mail used to ship newspapers and magazines will go up 22.1%. That jump comes on top of other second-class rate rises totaling 127% since 1971-and poses an economic threat for many publications. Third-rate bulk mail, under the new rate schedule, will climb 23.9%, and parcel post...