Word: postally
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Though Arafat's arrival in the Gaza Strip marked another step toward the beginning of Palestinian self-rule, much remains to be done. Public security was successfully handed over to Palestinian security forces in May. But civilian administration of Gaza and Jericho -- in such matters as education, health, taxation, postal service -- has remained in limbo. Arafat has named 18 of the 24 members of the Palestinian Authority that will administer the areas until elections are held, but they have established no real control yet. Hours before Arafat's appearance last week, Haidar Abdel-Shafi, a former Palestinian negotiator, said...
...director Kenneth Godshall, assistant director Hala Makowska negotiated a contract with Congressional Quarterly Inc. to provide us with the voting data base. Production director Brian O'Leary and staff painstakingly coordinated the technical and printing efforts that allowed us to trace all our subscribers down to their block and postal route to identify their legislators and then ink-jet those specific records individually onto each of their magazines. Normally, such a procedure takes up to five weeks. We now have it down to 48 hours...
...Postal Inspector Michael Kmetz, as quoated in yesterday's New York Times Magazine. Kmetz was referring to a set of counterfeit postage stamps now in circulation bearing likenesses of Fisher and Tonya Harding, among others...
Hank Slonina, the Eliot House superintendent,said mail must come through the University mailsystem or the U.S. Postal Service...
Still, the experience of the U.S. Postal Service in the past five years is instructive. Last year investigators devoted more than 100,000 hours to investigating incidents and threats, double the time spent in 1992. As part of their training, all managers take courses on spotting and handling dangerous situations. Officials have also established an annual opinion survey that allows employees to rate their bosses, much like college students assess professors; the responses figure in supervisors' promotions and raises. The changes are clearly working. Reported assaults at post office facilities have , been dropping steadily: in 1990, 424 were recorded; last...