Word: postally
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...better watch itself. The passive-aggressive way of (not) doing things, perfected by clerks of the U.S. Postal Service, has spread like a drug-resistant strain of civic anger. A real insecurity and confused apprehension that something has gone basically wrong mutate by stages into free-floating sullen grievance and ballistic self-pity, a boll-weevil mentality of busy stealth, the victim/employee/citizen as secret guerrilla. Alienation...
...sells antiques and hand-made copper items. The walls of his store are lined with shiny copper lamps and fixtures, and the table by the front counter displays a large assortment of New England firefighter's memorabilia, complete with coffee mugs and beer pitchers. A former employee of the Postal Service, he is now 59 years old. Bruce approaches the collection of colorful flags that rest by the front door, and selects his "recession flag," hanging it outside for all of Epsom to see. An old flier nailed to a wooden post announces a sale commemorating his marital difficulties, which...
...describe women in terms of a lot of nasty four-letter words, and he were to hang the letter on a local bulletin board, I certainly wouldn't and shouldn't suffer any legal repercussions. By analogy, if this indecency bill were to be applied to the U.S. Postal Service, I would face five years in prison and $100,000 in fines. Email is still essentially mail, regardless of how easy it is to pass along, and should enjoy the same protections from censorship...
...POSTAL SERVICE Neither snow nor rain keeps them from posting a record post--rate-hike profit...
FRANCE HAS THE HIGHEST CONSUMPtion of tranquilizers in Europe, and these days it's easy to see why. For more than a week, striking transport workers, joined by postal and utilities employees, have brought the country to a virtual standstill to protest the government's new social-welfare reforms. University students are striking and marching to demand more teachers and resources. Algerian radicals have conducted a wave of terrorist bombings, and soldiers carrying machine guns patrol the Metro and train stations. The unemployment rate is 11.8%, one of the highest in the industrialized world. After only six months in office...