Word: postalized
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...cents for first-class U.S. stamps wasn't expensive (or awkward) enough, the cost of mailing a letter will climb to 32 cents shortly after the New Year rolls around. The independent Postal Rate Commission today approved the 10.3 percent increase -- part of a set of hikes to infuse the cash-strapped post office with an additional $4.7 billion in 1995. But the commission frowned on a Postal Service request to raise all rates by the same percentage: Instead of charging a quarter for each post card or extra ounce of regular mail, as the post office wanted, post cards...
...last issue came to a head most dramatically last July, after a U.S. postal inspector, posing as a customer in Tennessee, downloaded X-rated pictures from an adult computer bulletin board in California. Though the images might have been acceptable by California standards, they were judged obscene in the Bible Belt, and the owners of the bulletin board were convicted of transporting obscene material across state lines. Their appeal may be headed for the Supreme Court...
...members of a gang with links to the Irish Republican Army were being held in connection with a killing that took place during a robbery of a post office facility in Newry, 30 miles south of Belfast. The murder of a postal clerk was the first since the I.R.A. announced a cease-fire in September. It caused the Irish government to rescind plans for the early release of I.R.A. prisoners. Sinn Fein said the killing was tragic and wrong...
...student organizations. For the remaining groups and clubs, distribution centers are provided in every house and the Union. To suggest that Kevin Higgins has any right to further his personal views through the University Mail strikes us as utterly preposterous. He can use the distribution centers or the U.S. Postal Service like anyone else...
...real underground has taken the very un-Postmodern step of depending on paper and the Postal Service: this is the low-tech, unwired world of photocopied "fanzines" (from fan magazines), the vanity projects of a new generation of publishers who are making fat, unglossy magazines radical again. Many of these "zines," as they are more generally called, are produced with desktop computers, but that is as sophisticated as they get. The majority make a point of their crude appearance and unhurried voyage to the reader; most are collated by hand, distributed by the mailman and cost...