Word: postally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more than 100 angry postal employees converged on City Hall last night, the City Council called on the U.S. government to appoint a congressional commission to investigate widespread delivery problems in the Cambridge mail system...
...tumultuous meeting that reached its climax when Boston Postmaster Tom Lamft stormed out of the room, the council slammed the postal official's plan to create a Cambridge mail system separate from the Boston office...
Lamft had come to the meeting at the request of the council to discuss ongoing problems with the postal service, which has drawn frequent complaints during the past year for slipshod mail delivery...
...though, is that there is so much paper invading their homes. Over the course of a lifetime, the average American professional will devote eight entire months to sifting through mail solicitations. Third-class mail is now a nearly 4 million-ton colossus that accounts for 39% of all U.S. postal volume. This year about 41 lbs. of junk mail have been generated for each adult American. Of the pile that reached mailboxes, an estimated 44% landed in trash cans, unopened and unread. Many of the rejects were "prospecting letters," mailings that fish for new clients and often hook only...
...even the most tolerant consumer might feel like Scrooge in the face of so much postal excess, no matter how worthy the touted product or cause. Last year the Red Cross responded to Hurricane Hugo and the San Francisco earthquake by mailing 12 million appeals, twice the organization's usual annual outpouring. Disabled American Veterans sent 38.5 million fund-raising pieces. In the case of some nonprofit organizations, as much as 90% of all funds raised through mail campaigns are applied to more mailings to raise more money...