Word: postally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...idea of attaching advertising supplements to a magazine with plastic wrap caught on in the mid-1980s, though the number has waned because of expensive postal regulations. Even Klein's booklet will be wrapped with only 250,000 or so copies of Vanity Fair (out of a total circulation of about 850,000), and will not be available at newsstands except in Southern California and metropolitan New York...
Thanks to a new postal delivery system, river house residents accustomed to finding their mail in their entryways are now fumbling with personal combination locks on new house mailboxes...
...procedure was instituted by the Central Square Post Office, which oversees Harvard's mail distribution. The office now delivers mail to the front door of each house, where paid student workers pick it up and distribute it to the mailboxes. Before this year, postal service workers performed that task, Carbonneau said...
...Postal Service will soon be offering some priceless stamps. Literally. In June it began producing its latest line of Christmas stamps in the midst of a continuing rate war with its overseer, the Postal Rate Commission. The Postal Service is dissatisfied with the current 29 cents price of a first-class stamp, which the Rate Commission approved in January in defiance of a long-standing request for a 30 cents stamp. The extra penny would bring in $850 million a year for the Postal Service, which is as hard hit by the recession as any business. The Postal Service...
...table that follows shows the "returns" you earn on each early payment, taking into account only the postal savings. If you'd also save on the cost of checks or envelopes -- let alone the hefty per-check fee some banks charge if you fall below their minimum balance -- so much the better...