Word: postal
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...rolls into the 21st century, the mail system designed by Benjamin Franklin 225 years ago is struggling to survive in a George Jetson universe. In the past few years, the U.S. Postal Service has launched a blizzard of new services--stamps over the Internet, electronic bill payment and a service that prints and mails electronic documents. Yet revenues depleted by alternative communications (e-mail, electronic banking), combined with rising fuel and operating costs, have led this year to a daunting $350 million loss...
Meanwhile, private carriers from Atlanta to Frankfurt, Germany, are battling for a bigger piece of the delivery pie, forcing the Postal Service to contract with the likes of DHL and Emery Worldwide just to maintain its global reach. Although still delivering 40% of the world's mail, the men and women in blue just can't seem to keep pace. Says Representative John McHugh, a New York Republican, whose postal-reform bill has been stuck in congressional limbo for six years: "The postal system is heading toward a disaster of tremendous consequences...
...noodles," maybe this will convince you that times have changed. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, whose fourth edition appears this fall, complete with 10,000 entries not found in the third edition of eight years ago, the following sentence is now legitimate English: "The dot-com brainiac went postal, big-time, spewing baba gannouj all over the food court, when some butthead with no sense of netiquette stole his def domain name...
...affected my training, but I'm fit enough," Armstrong said before the cycling time-trial race. "I don't want to use that as an excuse." And he didn't. Armstrong got the bronze in the trial, won by Russian Viacheslav Ekimov, who races with Armstrong on the U.S. Postal Team. It was a great race. But Armstrong's is such a rich, heartwarming tale that the race results seemed almost an afterthought...
...more than Dorm Crew which cannot be a good sign. It involves calling and calling and calling old alumni and asking them for more money so that Harvard can become rich rich rich! It only last a few weeks, which is most likely the only reason the phrases "going postal" and "going to hell" haven't been replaced by "going to fundraise...