Word: postally
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Your story on the U.S. Postal Service seriously misstated the facts about the sale of mailing lists [BUSINESS, Jan. 19]. The Postal Service does not sell mailing lists or reveal the names of postal customers. It zealously guards the sanctity of the U.S. mail and the privacy of all mailing customers. By law, we are prohibited from making names or addresses available, and we observe the law to the letter. The marketers of goods and services collect and analyze demographic data for their own marketing efforts. It is these marketers who both buy and sell mailing lists of their customers...
Earlier this week, the Postal Service dedicated an array of new stamps to "celebrate the century" in yet another nationwide commemoration and, as the winter International Review has pointed out, possible farewell, to America's golden age. The 30 new stamps are arranged on two sheets, each depicting one of the first two decades of the 20th century. Among the 15 stamps covering the 1910s, one in particular stands out to me: the first crossword puzzle of 1913. As the Postal Service reports, that puzzle was created by a journalist named Arthur Wynne, and it appeared in the New York...
Both were raised in lower-middle-class circumstances by strong mothers who foresaw great things for their sons. Jordan was born in Atlanta in 1935; his father was a postal worker, his mother a caterer to upper-class whites. Tending bar at their parties, Jordan saw the kind of life he wanted to lead, a kind of life then denied to blacks. His aspirations led him into the civil rights movement. After earning a bachelor's degree at DePauw University and a law degree from Howard, he came to prominence in 1961 when a howling white mob tried to prevent...
...sheer size of such facilities dwarfs the capabilities of private competitors and makes it tempting to take these rivals lightly. Postal managers boast that the U.S. system delivers as much mail daily as FedEx handles in a year. "We are at the extremes in everything," says New York Postmaster Sylvester Black. "We talk about the evolution of the mail, but the overwhelming majority of people get their bills by mail, pay their bills by mail and get their magazine subscriptions by mail. The old standby is still the old standby...
...hottest battle right now is in two-day package delivery, where the USPS has picked a nasty fight with the parcel-delivery services. In TV spots for its Priority Mail, the postal service touts its prices as far below those for the comparable service by FedEx or UPS. Yet the post office can't match their delivery record or track a piece of priority mail from shipper to receiver. An advertising review board rejected a FedEx challenge to the spots last year, but the two rivals remain in litigation. Says UPS chairman and ceo Jim Kelly: "I can hardly imagine...