Word: postally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Phone Your Mother! Phone Your Grandfather! But don't worry about writing. The Postal Service doesn't need your money. They do just fine, thanks, subsisting on junk mail from J.C. Penney and subscriptions to Vogue...
What could be more all-American than a U.S. postage stamp series that features the faces of great Americans? Almost anything. In a move that stirred outrage among patriotic philatelists, the U.S. Postal Service disclosed last week that two issues from the series will be printed in Canada. This marks the first time U.S. postage will be printed abroad. One stamp bears the likeness of the late New Mexico Senator Dennis Chavez. The other depicts former Chief Justice Earl Warren...
...work moved north after the Postal Service decided to farm out the job to Stamp Venturers of Fairfax, Va. The firm, in turn, apparently decided that no printing company in the U.S. could perform the work. But patriots, take heart! The stamps will be printed on American-made paper...
...different is running the Postal Service from running a private company...
...There are more differences than you have room to write about. In a corporation you seek to maximize your profit. In the Postal Service you seek to minimize your profit. You've got to break even. You have a lot of bosses. You have 250 million people who judge how you do every single day, and they, in turn, talk to 535 members of Congress. Everything you do is subject to criticism, lawsuit. Not only do you have to be fair, you have to demonstrate that you're fair...